Definitely not worth the price of admission

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2000)

This movie seemed to try so hard to thrust emotions on you. The audience almost forced to react as they would in some melodrama from an earlier age - cheer when your hero is on the screen, boo and hiss when the villain enters.
It never seems to matter in this story that it is the most one sided representation of a historical drama I have ever seen. Each character unearthed after the second half of the movie (taking place decades after the initial event) seemed to live in the shadow of "The Rubin Carter Cover-up" - jumpy, and completely unbelievable. Even while I think what happened to Rubin Carter was a grave injustice and a gross miscarriage of the law, I do not think that we in society owe it to anyone to pretend that this movie is something it is not instead of what it is totally OVERBLOWN. Not to mention this movie drags on and on without sweeping you up into the mood - builds to a patheticly low crescendo and just lets you down.