BEFORE: "A Time to Kill" was set in Mississippi, so I figured, as long as I'm in the neighborhood... In addition to the location, the KKK carries over from last night's film (there's a sentence I never thought I'd be typing).
THE PLOT: Two FBI agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.
AFTER: It's worth noting that it hasn't been that long since there were separate lunch counters and drinking fountains in the South...within 50 years, segregation was still a common practice.
It's interesting here to watch two federal agents, with completely different tactics, leading an investigation in a Southern town. And it's frustrating to watch the lead agent's tactics fail again and again, stirring up more and more trouble in the town, before they switch things up and begin a slightly underhanded, but eventually more productive method.
Starring Gene Hackman (last seen in "French Connection II"), Willem Dafoe (last seen in "Born on the Fourth of July"), Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif (last seen in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"), Michael Rooker (last seen in "The Dark Half"), Stephen Tobolowsky (last seen in "Thelma & Louise"), R. Lee Ermey (last seen in "The Siege of Firebase Gloria"), and Kevin Dunn (last seen in "Lions for Lambs").
RATING: 6 out of 10 rowboats
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