Tom Cruise and Jack Nicholson are in full movie star mode in Rob Reiner's film version of Aaron Sorkin's slick military courtroom drama.
The film plays to Reiner's strength as a director. Working with an excellent script, Reiner gets very good performances out of his entire cast and knows when to step back and let Cruise and Nicholson do their movie star overacting thing.
A Few Good Men is essentially an updating of an old Perry Mason TV episode dressed up with Sorkin's at time overripe dialog. Reiner does a good job keeping the dialog from sounding like a big preachy mess which is frequently an issue with Sorkin's writing.
The film runs 138 minutes
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