A good, strong movie where Hopkins plays another traveler. Prepared in advance for murder, he tries to tilt the entire American judicial system by resorting to various tricks that may look interesting.
He is rewarded by a career prosecutor who is preparing to go to work in a private company with a bunch of buns and an expanded social package. This last case becomes a bone in his throat.
The range of tricks is wide, and on both sides. At some point, the question arises about the substitution of evidence and fabrication of the case.
The film is well made, a good psychological movie for the evening. Of the obvious flaws here is only the "love line" of the prosecutor. Although, if you look at the abundance of cut scenes - Hoblit realized that it does not succeed at all and turned the bench in time.
The alternative endings were amusing too. The behavior of Hopkins' character in them does not at all beat what happened in the film before that. Looking at such cut materials, you realize how much labor does not reach the screen and that in cinema, as in life, sometimes it is better to be silent than to talk.