nose dive

Rating: 1/10 (16 July 2012)

Once again, the potential for a good movie, ingredients set in place early, but movie makers these days are too enslaved to authority to allow for governments to suffer for their abuses, especially that of the Americans. Perhaps a mis-guided belief in the hollow lie that is the "war on terror." In this film, we start out with a fatally flawed legal system and an egregiously maligned citizen, with the potential for writing a fine morality play; but the movie falls flat on its face when the antihero (Jamie Foxx the lawyer) is permitted absolute redemption. Others die around him, his own family remains untouched, he is even promoted to fill a space created by the death of his direct superior, but all he must say for redemption is "I don't make deals with murderers any more." Such disappointment warrants the lowest rating available.