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Movie Review A Time To KillI never read A Time To Kill by John Grisham because the book bored me. But Iwonder why it did bore me because the movie was engrossing and entertain.Maybe it is because Akiva Goldsman took bug out most of the boring parts. I usuallylove Grisham, but this book was just too slow. However, another thing that makethe movie more entertaining is the actors.The movie begins with the rape scene that you have belike heard about. If youhavent, its a quick-edited scene so it doesnt show much, but still makes yourstomach churn. Jake Brigance (Matthew McConaughey) describes it graphically inhis summation. Anyway, what makes the scene so shocking is that it is a 10 yearold girl being raped. The two men are captured and while ascending a staircasefor their preliminary trial, the girls father, Carl Lee Hailey (Samuel L.capital of Mississippi), runs out of a closet with a gun and shoots the two men and a boom. Thetwo men die and the cop has his leg amputated.This sets o ff the main plot of the story. Hailey maturates Brigance to defend him forvirtually nothing. During a courtroom scene, Eileen Roarke (Sandra Bullock, in asurprisingly small role for having top billing) helps Brigance to get the trialmoved to another town. Unfortunately, the judge (Patrick McGoohan) decidesagainst moving the trial. Brigance needs to get a control panel of young, married menwith children. What does he get? A jury of women and old men. So Brigance hashis work cut out for him, especially when he is up against the cruel andcheating Rufus Buckley (Kevin Spacey).The film moves along quickly, which I wasnt expecting. The movie is one hundred forty-five minuteslong, but it seems shorter than this. The book is over 500 pages, so Goldsmanhad his work cut out for him. But he did a great job and made the movie moreentertaining than the book. As I said, the actors must have had something to dowith it as well. Matthew McConaughey is superb as Brigance. This is his firstmovie and it will probably make him famous. His summation is one of the bestparts of the movie. He says it with great emotion that, not only can the juryrelate with, but so can the audience.Samuel L. Jackson is always good and there is one particular scene where hegives a small talk to Brigance. It is powerful, even if it is short. Thats howgood Jackson is.