A Few Good Men

Another Tom Cruise film and I apologise for there being so many on the blog this year but he has made a lot of films and I haven't seen that many of them so over the next few years they are going to feature a lot. The same thing goes with Tom Hanks and Matt Damon.

A few good men stars Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson and Demi Moore. For me this is only the second film with Demi Moore in that I have seen, with the other film being 'Ghost'. This film is still when Tom Cruise was young and cementing his name in the film industry and this time he plays a Navy JAG lawyer. He is known for never having been in a courtroom because he is assigned to people who are innocent and cuts deals so that he doesn't have to go to court but this time, after a large bulk of the film he decides that his clients are innocent and he gets to see the inside of a courtroom. Demi Moore is a commanding officer responsible for the two officers in custody and she is also assigned by the family of one of the accused as his attorney. The two of them argue a lot but she drives him on in all the right ways and gets the best out of him.

On the other side there is Jack Nicholson who somehow always manages to look a little psychotic and is a commander in Cuba. He is rigorous and believes very much in the code that they have in which the unit comes first. One member of that unit attempts to get NIS involved and in doing so is accidentally murdered after a 'code red' was authorised by the commander. This case and this film is always intriguing to watch because you often think that a man like Jack Nicholson can't be broken in a court room by someone like Tom Cruise but the passion, the risks taken and the determination brings out the character of Nicholson and he plays it so well that you actually fear for the life of Dan Cathy, who is standing in front of him. Watching Kevin Bacon attempt to do all that he can do to win a case which he doesn't want to win and go punch for punch with Tom Cruise is also worth the watch and the wait.

A few good men is actually a good insight in to what the code and honour mean to the people who protect our country and it is also a good insight in to how graduating from law school doesn't necessarily mean that you are a good lawyer. Dan Cathy was convinced that his clients were guilty before he met the commander and that is when it all changed. He had resigned himself to losing and was at the point of giving up when everything changed.
Watch the film because this is another good film and I was impressed with all of them.