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Jun 25, 2014BlueHippo rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed this film, if only for the spectacular acting (I am not a big Mamet fan). It's focus was a very narrow time within the whole of this event and there was very little background information on the actual murder/suicide/accident, which was interesting because you had only the information that his lawyers were developing to defend him against the murder charge to inform your opinion. I had forgotten that there was a hung jury and that he was only found guilty in a second trial. I can understand the hung jury-if they got to see the demo that Helen Mirren's character came up with, it was a pretty powerful argument for reasonable doubt. The absence of this attorney (and possibly the demo) in the second trial may have been the determining factor in that jury's decision. Al Pacino was great as Spector.