The Firm 4K 1993 Ultra HD 2160p

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A Harvard Law graduate is invited to work on excellent terms at a small law firm. The young lawyer dreams of the heights of his career, but soon discovers that his firm serves the powerful mafia clans of Chicago. To refuse to cooperate with them is to sign his own death warrant. On the other hand, the FBI begins to follow him.

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1993. Hollywood decides to screen John Grisham, a writer specializing in "legal thrillers," a genre he himself essentially invented, for the first time. As a former lawyer and politician, Grisham was well versed in bureaucratic intricacies. Adding to this his imagination, the writer got a series of stories that are very popular in the world. And so 4 years after the release of the first book, Sydney Pollack - already then a director with a name and a reputation as a master of smart movies, sits behind the captain's bridge to direct "The Firm".

"The Firm" - not Grisham's first story, but at the time it was the most successful in terms of sales, so this decision of the producers was not questionable. Sydney Pollack invited almost all the minor roles of venerable actors, and the main entrusted to the still young, but already famous Tom Cruise. The book, as the basis of the movie, was a very well-crafted thriller-detective with well-described characters, whose actions were logical, consistent and reasonable. It seemed, having such a basis, to make a good movie is not difficult. But the adaptation turned out to be an order of magnitude worse than the original.

The most interesting thing is that the movie was very successful at the box office, and there are no claims to the director and actors in principle. They all did a good job, got into the images prescribed by the script, starting from Tom Cruise and Gene Hackman, ending with Ed Harris and Gary Busey in the background. So why do I think the film adaptation fails. Movies based on books rarely get made at least on the same level as the source material, let alone superior. If the plot is preserved and all the details of the book are present, it's already good. In "The Firm," the script has been changed. If the beginning of the picture does not cause any complaints, the closer the ending, the more questions - the ending in my opinion is too happy and in every sense "right". There was a good ending in the book too, but it looked much more realistic.

On the whole, if you close your eyes to some minuses of the script and at the end of the movie a very annoying piano melody as a soundtrack that serves to keep the tension, and most importantly, if you watch the movie without reading the source material, the picture is not bad and is a very good example for its genre. The director made it in the style of old movies, so to some it may seem very old-fashioned and dragging, but this can be forgiven for the questions that are raised in the picture, and before that in the book. The desire to be successful and blurred eyes at the sight of lucrative offers, when everything seems cloudless, family values, then not yet slipped in every Hollywood movie, faith in a loved one, the heaviness after many years of living in deceit and lies - about these and other things the picture makes you think, the truth at the end of the movie giving answers to all these questions.

Nevertheless, "The Firm" is at least one of Cruise's best roles, and at most, a deep and interesting detective, depending on which side you look at it and what you want to see in it.