Review – Criminal Law

Gary Oldman plays a lawyer who wins a not-guilty verdict for a client (Kevin Bacon) only to have the psycho continue his serial killing ways. The two men develop a really creepy love-hate relationship as Oldman tries to find a way to get his clever, pop-collared client to slip up and get himself caught. Stir in some icky Oedipal stuff and a message about abortion that’s likely to please neither side of the debate, and you’ve got one hard to look at movie. See if desperate