3 hour saga ends with rubbish

Rating: 2/10 (10 November 2007)

At the end of this movie, the writers have Lucas (Denzel Washington) casually helping to fight drugs in Roberts' (Russel Crowe) situation room. Highly unlikely! Even more ridiculous is Roberts acting as prosecuting attorney against Lucas. Would he testify from the witness stand or from the prosecutor's table? Then, we are told that Roberts becomes a defense attorney for one of the Lucas boys! No conflict of interest here! A conflict of simple, basic legal principles.
Washington and Crowe give excellent performances. It is the story that is flawed. Perhaps the ridiculous ending was deemed necessary to bring the 3-hour story to a close. In my view, it should have been done much sooner.