SummaryO'Donnell stars as idealistic young attorney Adam Hall who takes on the death row clemency case of his onetime Klansman grandfather, Sam Cayhall (Hackman). With just 28 days before the execution, Adam sets out to retrace the events leading to the crime for which Sam was convicted. As the impending death sentence looms closer, Adam works quickly t... Read More
Directed By:James Foley
Written By:John Grisham, William Goldman, Phil Alden Robinson
The Chamber
Metascore
Mixed or Average
45
User score
Generally Favorable
6.4
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
45
17% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
78% Mixed
14 Reviews
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6% Negative
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1 Review
70
An intelligently proficient movie that works more effectively as a family drama than a legal thriller.
60
Though it lacks the gloss, twists and star power of earlier Grisham movies, The Chamber does possess Gene Hackman's most cantankerous turn since the lowdown lawman he created in "Unforgiven."
50
The Chamber goes so far toward humanizing bigotry it ends up sentimentalizing it.
50
Timing does no favors for The Chamber, the John Grisham death row drama that arrives on the heels of a better death row film (''Dead Man Walking'') and a better Grisham adaptation (''A Time to Kill''). But this film's also-ran aspects are partly offset by Gene Hackman's superlative performance.
50
The films portray the Klan as criminal, racist and anonymous, but those have always been its selling points; it is not portrayed as boring and stupid.
40
Material so bereft of plot and insight that all it can provide is actorly turns with no cogent means for tying them together.
25
The Chamber has nowhere to go and it goes there slowly, flirting in all directions.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.4
44% Positive
8 Ratings
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50% Mixed
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6% Negative
1 Rating
1 Rating
Apr 5, 2012
6
Not bad, not great, a 6.5 at most, not a 7, so I guess I will just put **** yeah, I would watch it again...a few more times, but never more than once a year!
