I f lawyers live that way I am a crocodile

Rating: 6/10 (24 August 2006)

Lawyers in the Western world seem to be the profession with the most powerful mythology towards the general public. When taking a taxi to reach the court of appeal in my native Greece the taxi driver asked me whether I have seen this film. I just laughed. Series like L.a. Law and movies like that have given the impression to the average movie-goer of the West that lawyers are some form of super-human elite controlling society through their machinations. In reality lawyers in the Balkans are struggling over-populated profession seeking to keep up appearances while other professions without such a tradition of ridiculous pretensions and antiquated conventions offer their practitioners a happier and simpler life.
I could not believe that such mythology could be generated nowdays. The sexual politics of the movie are a muddle. The incurssions to horror unsuccessfully. The presentation of the international connections of the legal company ridiculous.
The concept of the is really very clever but the execution does not live up to it.