Compare this movie to anything in the theater today and it would win best picture...

Meu gênero favorito precisa de suspense e mistério para me conquistar e esse filme cumpre muito bem esses requisitos. Ágil, voraz é inteligente, sabe como levar o roteiro sem perder o ritmo e a lógica. Excelente, perspicaz e emocionante.

Watched this right after The Firm which is 10 times the movie of The Client. Read the book many years ago and don't remember it being this bad. Great actors given a bad script with bad directing delivers a real dud. First half hour gets your attention, but by the end you feel really bad you wasted your time on this.

The Client, though not the best of the John Grisham books brought to the screen, wins on the levels of 1. The acting from all involved. Tommy Lee Jones delivers one of his Top 5 performances. His cocky and arrogant Reverend Roy is perfect for this story. Susan Sarandon is on point as always with her down to earth performance as a former alcoholic and a cheap but smart, talented lawyer. The late Brad Renfro gives a great performance as a first timer in a film loaded with talent. He able to keep up with them all. 2. The story gets a bit melodramatic but the storyline mixes the mob and the courtroom together very well. Joel Schumacher does it once again after giving us The Lost Boys and St. Elmo's Fire and would eventually bring another Grisham book to life with A Time to Kill does his best with the script that was given to him. This is definitely a great watch and the dialogue is a joy to listen to. There are several scenes that I have played over many times but I will say that the first scene between Sarandon and Jones is one for the books. Have yourself a Grisham weekend and start with this one, then A Time to Kill, The Firm, The Pelican Brief, The Rainmaker and finish it off with The Chamber.

Great movie the way the characters interact with each other. Definitely a must to see!!!

This film is bad. The plot is OK but the execution is poor. The characters are annoying and stupid and the acting from everyone is mostly bad. It starts off as a decent thriller but then very quickly turns stupid in the same scene, by the 1 hour mark I was bored so stopped watching.

A fair, good written drama thriller.

The chemistry between Tommy-Lee Jones and Sarandon ... they just don't make films like that anymore! Really excellent cast and what a child actor, a debut Performance no less :-)

How in gods name is this movie getting such good reviews? The dialog is atrocious, the accents are comical. I seen better acting on only fans. Id watch Blair Witch over this again. Big names actors don't mean its a good movie

One of my all-time favorites. Susan Sarandon is great, as always, and 11-year old Brad Renfro as a smart and smartass kid is phenomenal. Tommy Lee Jones hams it up perfectly as a slick and slimy U. S. Attorney.

Susan Sarandon is amazing in this film. But that is no surprise. I think that she is the best american actor ever. Also the kid did a good job.

AWESOME FLICK. LITTLE BRAD RENFRO WAS OUTSTANDING. REST IN HEAVEN BUDDY. TOMMY LEE AND SUSAN SARANDON BOTH PLAYED GREAT ROLES. GREAT PLOT, GREAT ACTING. GREAT HEARTFELT ENDING. ONE OF MY FAVORITES.

Great performances from everyone involved in this underrated Joel Schumacher film.

It is rather a fun trip to the lawyer's office which you don't see everyday

"The Client" is truly one of the best legal thrillers I've ever seen, I have no words to describe it, Joel Schumacher's duology is really fascinating. Another important point is Susan Sarandon's versatility, which shows that she is an Actress with a capital A.

Anchored by John Grisham's compelling story and Susan Sarandon's commanding performance, The Client is definitely worth watching. It's impressive to think that this was Brad Renfro's first film role, and he does a good job as the central character. Coming in at just under two hours, this adaptation captures the essence of the novel without including all the details.

While the concept feels good, and the courtroom drama portion of this film is done pretty well, "The Client" is an overall forgettable film that definitely had the potential to be more. Tommy Lee Jones carries this film, though I think Susan Sarandon does pretty well too. The action is done okay, but where the film really shines is in the legal part of this film and not so much the action/suspense part, which I think it was really lacking in. My main issue was the villain, who was very bland and plain, and the lead character himself, who just isn't presented in an even remotely likeable way. The story also jumps around a lot, and it never feels suspenseful as it should be. Overall, I found this film very disappointing and is one that I most likely will not be watching again.

The Forrest Gump ,movie was a very rare instance of Hollywood making a proverbial silk purse movie out a sow's ear book. This movie is no such example. As in the novel, Mark Sway is an eleven-year-old child in some woods sneaking cigarettes with his younger brother. Discovers a criminal lawyer committing suicide in his car, tries to stop it, and then is told before the lawyer dies about his defending a mobster who had murdered a U. S. Senator whose body was buried at his home. So does Mark go to the police right away? No, he finds a female lawyer and holds back the information, even when the police and mob both know about his hiding the secret information, and when he is told he could be taken into the Federal Witness Protection Program and away from his old life with his impoverished mother living in a trailer. The movie and book are guilty of the same idiot plot, and the reason for that in the book is to add a lot of social commentary, which is mostly missing from the movie. Perhaps other John Grisham works are better, but neither book nor movie are good.

Dislikeable, idiotic characters mixed with a nonsensical, dragged out plot make this a film to avoid. Instead of the kid just saying what happened like a normal, non-guilty individual would do, he kept blatantly lying and tried to avoid the police for the entire film. Then to make matters worse, his free lawyer actively hindered a police investigation and essentially kidnapped the boy. They also went to the location of the body to check that it was still there rather than just telling the police, which resulted in trespassing, tampering with the evidence, and the homeowners nearly being killed. Nothing in the plot makes any sense. I mean the kid even managed to escape jail by pretending to be ill, but any qualified medical professional should have been able to see that he was fine. The main character was a rude, annoying little brat, the policeman got pleasure from scaring the kid, the lawyers were laughably unrealistic, and the villains were pathetic at their job. Then the pacing was poor because the story was lengthened for drama, and most of the acting was mediocre, if not below average. For instance, Brad Renfro had awful emotional expression. However, Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones gave decent performances. Finally, the cinematography, visual effects, and soundtrack were nothing noteworthy.

The Client could have been resolved in the first 30 minutes if any of the legal teams had been halfway competent, or the 11 year old witness at the centre of the film had simply told the cops what he knows. Instead, the State's Attorney (Tommy Lee Jones) thinks it's a smart play to threaten an 11 year old with jail time, prompting the kid to lawyer up (yes, an 11 year procures his own legal counsel). After that the film lurches from one preposterous scenario to the next, trying to squeeze drama from a straightforward legal proceeding (They literally send the kid to jail! He breaks out! He goes on the run with his lawyer to locate a dead body, just to double check it's there!). Eventually the film reaches its inevitable conclusion: the boy tells the cops what he knows. Like he could have at the start. The Client's only redeeming quality is the presence of Susan Sarandon and Tommy Lee Jones.