This pattern of movie we have seen a hundred times of someone from the outside world fighting for a death row inmate. Trial by Fire doesn't add anything new to it. It plays all the familiar beats but with great acting from Dern and even more so from O'Conell. But why do we get these again and again? Because they work. They don't just work because of good story telling but because you will feel sorry for the inmate. You will empathize with people being punished for something they didn't do and you will feel tremendous anger when you see a person getting killed like an animal. So every one of those movies needs to be there to make these strong cases against death penalty so that one day the United States learns that there is just no sense in them remaining the last democracy in the world having capital punishment in place.
Review of Trial by Fire
