Undeniably the worst adaption of a John Grisham book...This film does just about everything wrong from start to Finish...Obviously Its trying to be another..Dead man walking..But fails under poor direction..And Hackman and O donnell(although both well cast)..are neither convincing nor interesting to watch I read the book and thought it deserved much better treatment...and it certainly didnt get it here....For example.Odonnell doesnt have one scene to himself..Hell he cant even go to the bathroom without someone else being there....And it features one scene that was never in the book...A scene where o donnell goes to a boxing ring to find one of Hackmans former associates and,For no apparent reason is beaten up by a bunch of thugs(even they dont seem to know why).And film cuts out many aspects from the book that could have made it better causes quite frankly,i dont think a good film is what anyone had in mind. Up till now,there has scarcely been a bad adaption of a Grisham book,with this film being the one exemption...Its is utterly terrible...and completely Dull.... Basically this Film Stank and I will say No more....(Oh accept,I love their attempts to make hackman look young in the opening scene...that was certainly good for a laugh,I guess)
Review of The Chamber
