While it sometimes gets a bit too heavy handed for its own good, it is still a very good courtroom drama and maybe the best Grisham adaptation yet.

It manages to capture the sultry South of America fantastically. It has an oppressive, sticky feel to it that reflects and accompanies the proceedings really well.

Schumacher directs his wonderful cast really well and paces his film perfectly. Given the subject matter, he has done really well to not turn this into a cliched, cheesy affair.

I have my brother to thank for pointing out this fantastic courtroom drama. It also made it into the 2nd Robinson Film Festival. (Check my lists for more info on Robinson Film Festivals)

This is the film that made me look at Matthew McConaughey as a serious actor who can pull a great performance out of the bag. This has been reinforced lately with his stellar turn in Killer Joe. In fact this film is littered with stand out performances. Jackson and Spacey both very worthy of a mention.

Gritty, intense and by far the best Grisham adaption to film. A Time To Kill is an extremely moving film that stands tall as one of the very best courtroom dramas ever made.

A little heavy-handed at times but ultimately well-intentioned and impactful, Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill, based upon the novel by John Grisham, sees Matthew McConaughey's Mississippi lawyer defending Samuel L. Jackson, who shot dead the two racist hicks who raped his 10 year old daughter. It's a great cast, also including Kevin Spacey, Sandra Bullock, Oliver Platt, Ashley Judd, The Sutherlands, Sr and Jr., and Chris Cooper. It's well-written by Akiva Goldman, provocative, thought-provoking and powerful, slathered in sticky Deep South sweat and oppression. I do love a courtroom drama.

Such an underrated, deeply engaging, and riveting drama. Every performance is fantastic especially Jackson and the film is extremely powerful overall. Such a great movie that I don't think gets enough credit.

"Now imagine she's white."

I don't think I've ever gasped so hard in my life. So many brilliant moments in this film and such an intense story. Glad I finally saw it.

Doesn’t live up to potential

ain’t nothing more dangerous in this world than a fool with a cause

Saw the theatrical trailer for this months ago before watching THE NET (1995) for the first time and vowed right then and there to track down a copy before the year ended. No surprise that its combo of drawn out court procedural and tale of a man who cared too much is nothing short of extremely my shit. It’s long, yes, but it earns every minute and familiar faces keeping popping up as it goes along, so in terms of casting there are a lot of pleasant surprises. There are some characters that don’t add much to the whole that I might’ve excised and the marital drama doesn’t really do much for me, either, esp. when Sandy’s character is such an obvious catch, but these are comparatively minor gripes about a film that I otherwise quite liked.

A friend of mine was watching a movie for Film as Lit, and decided to watch this one and invited me over. This one takes a bit of a different approach to race and racism than BlackkKlansman. While both show it’s bad, this movie is different not by making people aware that that it exists, but by trying to take race out of the equation. Sam L Jackson’s character kills two racists that rape his daughter, and then is put on trial. Matthew McConaughey has to save him in court from a panel of southern jurors. It’s a really well made movie, and I recommend it.

vigilante justice? yes

You'd have to either be made of stone or, well, a racist, not to get emotional during some of this movie, but other than that it's a pretty standard courtroom drama; not great, not terrible. It's fine. But there ain't nothing wrong with that every once in a while.

“Now imagine she’s white”