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True Crime
As star and director Eastwood rarely misses, but this slow moving thriller about a newspaper
reporter's discovery of a death row inmate's innocence is simply too long and drawn out to be
gripping. With its perfunctory plot: Eastwood's barfly character plays a hunch, suspecting
convicted murderer (a stirring performance by Isaiah Washington) was wrongly accused, and finds
evidence to prove it only half an hour before the execution, leaves True Crime offering
no surprises. What suspense there is comes from a protracted bit of detective work, and the
inevitable dash by car to alert the prison authorities. Aside from the tabloid hack's affair
with the wife of his boss (a curiously subdued Denis Leary) and the office politics that ensue,
the final breakdown of his own marriage, a trip to the local zoo with his cute daughter (clear
nepotism for little Francesca Fisher-Eastwood) which ends in farce, and the highly emotive
scenes where the condemned black man receives a final visit from his family, the best thing
about this film is James Woods as the agreeably manic, chief editor. As entertainment, True
Crime only comes to life when Woods is berating Eastwood for his vices (smoking and
womanising) or explaining exactly what purpose the news media serve today. DOWSE
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