Presumed Innocent

As someone with a documented love for maximalist cinema, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that courtroom thrillers aren't exactly my favored genre. They are stuffy by design, tailored to be driven by heavy dialogue and sudden/random reveals. Presumed Innocent didn't do much to change that.

Rusty is a respected lawyer, but when a colleague of his is brutally murdered, he is looking at some tough time ahead. He is assigned to investigate the case. Many of the clues seem to lead back to him, and the fact that he used to have an affair with this colleague. Before he knows it, Rusty's the one on trial.

There are some twists and turns scattered throughout, but as I didn't care for the character or the plot, they weren't all that rewarding in the first place. The performances are plain, the presentation is dire and two hours is quite long for a film that never excites. Like many 90s thrillers, this one didn't age very well.