Review – Murder in the First

This brutish little movie tells the story of a brutish little inmate at Alcatraz who is kept in solitary confinement for so long that it destroys his mind and turns him into a remorseless killer. Or, more specifically, this picture tells the story of the Harvard-educated attorney who gives up career, love and family in pursuit of justice for his client. Honestly, don’t lawyers ever get tired of themselves? Kevin Bacon does a workmanlike if somewhat over-wrought job as the inmate, and Christian Slater is his usual self as the valiant mouthpiece. If you’re in the mood for a grim and more than a little unrealistic courtroom drama, you could do worse. Mildly amusing