This film was like watching Babe Ruth take a mighty swing at a fastball and hit a towering.fly ball that's caught on the warning track. A miss by a fraction of an inch.
An A-List cast and a great premise are not given a chance to reach their full potential. If just some of the screen time devoted to the over-amped frenetic lives of the journalists were redirected to getting to know the two innocent youths in jail for murder (and their families) this could have been Best Picture timber. Just one scene of the prosecutor offering the two kids twenty-five to life for a plea that will keep them off death row could have raised the stakes to "all in" and clarified to the audience exactly what's on the table here.
Although I did find this film thoroughly enjoyable (for the most part) I kept wondering what might have been.
An A-List cast and a great premise are not given a chance to reach their full potential. If just some of the screen time devoted to the over-amped frenetic lives of the journalists were redirected to getting to know the two innocent youths in jail for murder (and their families) this could have been Best Picture timber. Just one scene of the prosecutor offering the two kids twenty-five to life for a plea that will keep them off death row could have raised the stakes to "all in" and clarified to the audience exactly what's on the table here.
Although I did find this film thoroughly enjoyable (for the most part) I kept wondering what might have been.