The Chamber [DVD]

Would highly recommend this courtroom thriller. Fantastic acting, different spin on usual courtroom drama. Well worth watching. 10/10

As a fan of John Grisham, this was a very difficult book to film and yet bring out the interplay between the two main characters. However, this was achieved reasonably well.

just another Brilliant grisham book . Keeps you rivitted to your seat . Not to be missed

poorly acted apart from the mighty Hackman.

Gene Hackman at his best, brilliant plot.

Have always liked John Grisham books and the films made of them, just found this one, acting is superb

V filmery enjoyable

This film was a flop, but after reading the book, I decided to watch it. Not sure why it was a flock, a lot of the book is missing which if you’ve read the book, it’s understandable. But the main story is there, & we enjoyed it

Je suis bien content d'avoir accès à la trame sonore de ce film à suspense !

arrived in a timely manner, well packaged, no problems. Dark story line, but good acting.

Excellent movie

Okay, so this film isn't what most Grisham fans, especially those who have seen adaptions such as "The Firm" and "The Rainmaker", and the author himself were hoping for, but it wasn't all bad. For one thing, it had Gene Hackman playing the aged condemned Klansman Sam Cayhall, a role Mr. Hackman aced. Chris O'Donnell wasn't all bad as Adam Hall, though this film was released not far from "Batman and Robin" so I involuntarily find myself making an unfavorable comparison between these two of Mr. O'Donnell's roles...he has better ones in the future once people have had a chance to recover from the trauma of that Batman disaster. Ultimately timing seems to have been against the young lad during this film. My other beef with this picture is it's noticeable deviations from it's source material. I consider "The Chamber" to be a classic Grisham work and one of my favorites in his bibliography, which is why I wanted to see this film. I certainly have no problem with a book's film adaptions steering away a bit from it's source material (i.e. The Shawshank Redemption), but when the alterations to the plot just don't work, that's when a film suffers. For example, this film's plot device of a secret society sanctioned by the state government (at the very least) being in league with the KKK was just an over-the-top attempt to explain racism in Mississippi during the Civil Rights era...the book's way of explaining that same issue may create some fictional events, but those are on a much smaller scale and are properly incoperated into history...therefore, the book's way works. As for the villain, Raymond J. Barry's role of Rollie Wedge was expanded from it's source material in the hopes that Jack Nickelson would take up the role. Unfortunetly that didn't happen. I'm not convinced that Mr. Barry couldn't have handled the role. Rather, I criticize the way the character was written in this adaption. I wasn't entirely thrilled with the character in the book either as he seemed to be too slick and undetectible in there. I think a hybrid of the book and movie versions would have made for the perfect villain for this plot. I did like that the FBI in the film knew something about him whereas they were completely unaware that he had even been born in the book. Perhaps he ought to have been more slick in the film but allow the FBI to know something anyway...they are pretty good. Also, having pose as the condemned man's brother without us having met any real brother (another deviation as we met one brother in the book) lessoned the impact of suspense that that scene could have had. But, for all the dissappointments that this film gave to Grisham loyalists like myself, the acting was still solid and the plot was just similar enough to the book that we can make the connection. If you're a die-hard Grisham fan who must have it all, include this in your collection. Otherwise, I'll leave it up to you. Enjoy.

It was a Christmas gift and luckily I opened it and found out it does not work! Could I get a refund??? Rosemary Warren