Movie #33 - A Few Good Men

"In the heart of the nation's capital, in a courthouse of the U.S. government, one man will stop at nothing to keep his honor, and one will stop at nothing to find the truth."

Pretty odd tagline. Its not as descript as many of them are and its quite long. However, the movie itself is one of those classics that actually rely heavily on acting and script as opposed to special effects and smut. You gotta love the era of the early 90's, before everything became so easy to "generate."

Jack Nicholson is at his best here. And surprisingly, so is Tom Cruise (before Scientology perhaps?). Nicholson vs. Cruise makes for an interesting conclusion and obviously, the most famous of lines in film:

"I want the truth!"

"You can't handle the truth!"

Overall, this film is stacked from the production team inclusive of Rob Reiner and of course the acting credits of the following names: Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollack, and J.T. Walsh. There's even a brief cameo from Noah Wyle, but who's paying attention to that much detail.

This movie ensures the success of the board game 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon in that he is linked to everyone here. Also, this movie represents one of the stronger cameos of the quintessential movie villain, graduate of the Donald Sutherland school of movie henchmen, J.T. Walsh. I cannot rave enough about this guy and his contributions to film, he is still missed in many of the action and drama movies of today and if you watch his films closely - you'll see why.

In the end, this movie delivers its dramatic showdown that is known to many movie goers, but is still one of the best sequences on film. A good film to watch in its entirety, but way over exposed due to channels such as TBS.