I knew next to nothing about this moving going into it. Even its description was somewhat misleading. It follows Matt Damon, a new lawyer who has yet to try a case against a big insurance company who unjustly denied a claim by a poor family with a son suffering from Leukemia. He, with the help of Danny DeVito, took on Jon Voight in the court room. If you like movies about courtrooms, this is a pretty entertaining one. Matt Damon is likable as always and Jon Voight is easy to hate. Danny Glover presides over the proceedings and Claire Danes is thrown in for fun. Though enjoyable, I found this movie to be rather odd in some ways. For instance, it felt very much like a TV Show in that it had weird cuts with long black pauses that felt like commercial breaks. Also, a lot of scenes seemed to be cut short and some even appeared to be out of order even though they weren't. I guess I feel like some weird editing decisions were made. Also, I was flabbergasted to learn that Francis Ford Coppola directed this movie because everything about it seemed to be made by someone who didn't quite know what he was doing. That's ironic because Matt Damon throughout was shown as a lawyer who didn't quite know what he was doing. Anyway, it was entertaining, but nothing you need to go out of your way to see.
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