Very faithful to the novel, but unfortunately ultimately incoherent.

Rating: 5/10 (17 November 1999)

Overall, only an adequate job of adapting the novel. The movie is far too faithful to the book to remain cogent as a movie. The vignettes are done very well, but there is no real sense of the sequences building towards anything. The acting is quite good and Gregory Peck is absolutely resplendent as Atticus Finch, although his dramatic speech is overwritten.