The Pelican Brief
1993 Directed by Alan J. Pakula
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Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men, who's also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her, that states who probably, wanted to see these two men dead. He then gives it to one of his friends, who works for the FBI...
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OK, so I made it a personal quest to write at least something about every movie I watch in 2013. But never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect to end up rewatching The Pelican Brief. Unfortunately, the residual merriment of a birthday party that I attended the night before left me incapable of lodging a sufficient protest when my roommate decided to turn it on. Now my entire plan is being torn asunder barely two weeks into the new year. Oh, cruel fate!
But I'm not going to take the coward's way out. I'm going to write a cogent review of The Pelican Brief, damn it! So, here we go. I can do this. Uh... something something John…
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You do not put Denzel in a movie and waste him. If you do, you are done for. Waste Denzel - shit movie.
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March Movie Madness- March 16th- The letter "P".
The Pelican Brief is a thriller that stars Julia Roberts as woman in Law School who is being stalked and chased by some government officials because of secret information that she has come across. Denzel Washington plays a Reporter trying to get the story of the brief to expose the truth.
The film is too long and not enough thrills in my view. I never fully understood exactly what was going on or exactly what the brief was all about and how all the people including the President were connected. It was one of those films with too many names to keep track and cover up that I didn't care about. Has a few decent chase scenes and a creepy hitman but otherwise a long and bland film. Didn't even see a reason to have Denzel in this film. A waste of talent.
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You do not put Denzel in a movie and waste him. If you do, you are done for. Waste Denzel - shit movie.
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They knew how to make these kinds of movies in the '90s so well.
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An overlong mediocre thriller with some intense sequences but besides that it is just your average by the numbers chase movie. A decent way to spend two and a half hours. Or at least the second half because the first half sucked.
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It's pretty good but that's it. Good leads but generally nothing amazing happening here. Pakula is well-above this type of material.
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OK, so I made it a personal quest to write at least something about every movie I watch in 2013. But never in my wildest dreams did I ever expect to end up rewatching The Pelican Brief. Unfortunately, the residual merriment of a birthday party that I attended the night before left me incapable of lodging a sufficient protest when my roommate decided to turn it on. Now my entire plan is being torn asunder barely two weeks into the new year. Oh, cruel fate!
But I'm not going to take the coward's way out. I'm going to write a cogent review of The Pelican Brief, damn it! So, here we go. I can do this. Uh... something something John…
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This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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