A Few Good Men

This definitely doesn’t feel like a sorkin script. By no means a bad script, but either just a miss or he hadn’t figured out his special recipe for writing dialogue quite yet. The final scene with Nicholson is obviously an all-timer, but I wish the film built toward more. Plot wise, the finale is just something we the audience have known since the beginning, so it doesn’t really do much. If not for Nicholson’s performance I think the finale, and the entire movie, would have fallen flat. But thankfully, Jack Nicholson is Jack Nicholson. He’s able to do things with his face that I don’t understand how he does it, but it conveys so much emotion in the most subtle way possible. You almost don’t notice it, until the camera pans to anyone else and you realize they could never do what he just did.  All in all, probably more like a 3 but I’m a sucker for a courtroom drama