YET ANOTHER HIGHLY OVERRATED FILM

Rating: 4/10 (4 June 1999)

After seeing this, I could understand why the director wanted his name off the credits. Ed Norton is way over the top, and hardly worthy of award consideration for his performance. In fact the best work (as usual) is by veterans Stacey Keach and Beverly D'Angelo. The best scene in the film is the usual prison shower rape, which is very funny, especially Norton's reaction to it. In fact this whole film is more inadvertantly campy than I expected. I can't believe anyone thought it 'dramatic' or 'powerful'. See 'Into the Fatherland'. A much better movie on the subject matter.