Almost all of the movie takes place in a courtroom, and is as a result, kind of boring.
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03/19/06
Find Me Guilty (2006)
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Reviews Counted:102
Fresh:60
Rotten:42
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Diesel's performance may win you over, but the rest of the movie is tediously overlong and stacks the deck to gain sympathy for criminals.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: Accomplished director Sidney Lumet has based some of his most notable films on true crime stories, and FIND ME GUILTY is similar in this respect to such work as SERPICO and DOG DAY AFTERNOON. The... [More]
Starring: Vin Diesel, Ron Silver, Annabella Sciorra, Peter Dinklage
Director: Sidney Lumet
Reviews for Find Me Guilty
We're meant to find [DiNorscio] charming, but he's merely thuggish -- Vin Diesel doesn't distinguish himself, though he clearly aches to...
03/19/06
With Lumet being in his mid-80s, it's possible that it's his final film. If this is so, it's nice that it'll be on a high note. See it.
03/18/06
It's as cold and dead as one of the many corpses produced by the defendants. ... Rarely have two hours felt so much like two years.
03/17/06
Find Me Guilty may not be worth your cash in the theaters, but it should make for an enjoyable enough rental.
03/17/06
Certainly evidence that truth is stranger than fiction, but it's also tedious and shockingly uninvolving.
03/17/06
It falls short of vintage Lumet while playing to his strengths as an actor's director who's built a career on themes of moral ambivalence.
03/17/06
Lumet is back on top of his game -- Find Me Guilty is his first feature after the awful 1999 remake of Gloria, and the reason is his strong grasp of characters who have a point of view.
03/17/06
Diesel owns it. He hits us in the eye with the whole pizza pie.
03/17/06
The excellent acting and offbeat humor that highlight veteran director Sidney Lumet's 43rd film Find Me Guilty can't make up for an overlong, morally topsy-turvy tale that's more claustrophobic than compelling.
03/17/06
Often feels shallow and manipulative, more suited to second-tier cable than the movies.
03/17/06
It isn't Lumet's best work, but it does play to Diesel's peacock strengths. In fact, he carries the movie.
03/17/06
You can't build a modern-day Crucible out of one crook's refusal to rat out a bunch of pimps and loan sharks.
03/17/06
Belongs to the odd couple of Dinklage and Diesel, whose volatile performance finally proves he is much more than an action star.
03/17/06
It's one thing to project sympathetic qualities onto fictional gangsters like the Corleones and the Sopranos; it's another to make protagonists out of actual members of the Lucchese crime family.
03/17/06
As the case grinds on and we follow Jackie from his cramped cell to the airless courtroom we begin to feel as confined as the prisoner himself.
03/17/06
Spunky and entertaining, it's a smart and multi-layered movie about the humanity of a gangster and the persuasive influence of humor.
03/17/06
It's a showboating role for Diesel, but it should also be noted that the actor brings a self-awareness to the character that cuts deeper than the comedy.
03/17/06
To the charge of squandering credibility despite being based on a true case: guilty.
03/17/06
A pleasing return of sorts to Lumet's training in the early years of TV.
03/17/06
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