Beyond a Reasonable Doubt

For whatever reason this movie has been victim of mob violence. If you read the professional reviews you end up wondering if we all watched the same movie. In reality this is an expertly constructed whodunnit, but only in the very last scene it is revealed what exactly was going on. Some reviewers claim that they could see it far in advance. Their foresight is being wasted in their present occupation. Expertly photographed and edited this is a very enjoyable movie. The only weak point I found is the unnecessarily long car chase scene in the middle.

Feel much better than the original and it deserves accolade.

Definitely a long version of a law and order episode. The court decorum is atrocious. They had to stick some romance in to relate to the female audience. A made for tv movie.

In the beginning I would consider it an excellent TV movie. Then the writer and director had for some reason had include a spoiler plot twist at the end. ‘This was completely amateurish and this movie should only be watched by students first learning about film creation. And not what to do.

Kinda cheese acting and dialog at times, but was a decent movie until the extremely stupid plot twist at the end ruins the whole thing

This is Naked Gun levels of seriousness and consistency.

Horror of the reality

Wow. What an excruciatingly bad movie: corny, unrealistic dialogue that sounds like it was written by a high school kid; wooden acting by all; shallow humorous bits that only an idiot would find funny; plot holes you could drive a truck through. The whole thing feels and looks like a 1980's TV movie. A really bad one. I'm amazed that an actor of Michael Douglas's magnitude would participate in a loser like this. But the choices that actors make are often about money vs. time. This flick was probably shot in about 10 days, and I'm sure that Douglas's paycheck was more than worth the minimal effort he put into it. His role is pretty close to a cameo. The two other major players, Jesse Metcalfe and Amber Tamblyn, aside from being substandard actors, are so cute that it's vomit-inducing. I might have given this film 1 1/2 stars because it at least has a modicum of suspense. But the twist at the end is so utterly inexcusable, I knocked it down to a generous one star.

It is engaging, but deeply unrealistic

Douglas, Tamblyn and Metcalfe deliver good performances that aren't enough to save this bored courtroom drama but are enough to keep you semi-entertained for the movie's 1.30h run.