From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!rocheste!heliotis
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: The Verdict
Article-I.D.: rocheste.350
Posted: Tue Dec 28 11:55:02 1982
Received: Wed Dec 29 03:06:28 1982

I'm afraid I was a tad disappointed in "The Verdict", perhaps only
because of all the positive reviews.  Paul Newman did give a pretty
good performance, though (I was told that his face did not match his
behavior, w.r.t. the wear and tear the alcoholism should have caused).
Our favorite performances, however, were those of his friend (the other
lawyer--forgot his name) and the brother-in-law of the woman in the
coma.

[SPOILER]

My wife and I both agreed that the problem was that the story
did not have enough reality; it was too much a "fairy tale" in how
justice was done in the end.  The characters were a bit too sterotyped
in their corruption/evilness.  Although Gavlin worked pretty hard to
get his key witness, we didn't feel that he deserved much of the credit
for the verdict.  In fact, when he first got confident about the case,
he was unaware of the fact that won it for them.  My personal rating
for this movie is $3.

                                        Jim Heliotis