The movie centers on an idealistic lawyer who tries to win cases for clients trapped in a hypocritical and corrupt legal system. When he finds himself forced to defend a guilty judge, while defending other innocent clients, he must try to find punishment for the guilty and provide justice for the innocent.
Pacino at the top of his game...[but] the film's lack of faith in its audience is glaringly apparent. [DVD review]
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
October 23, 2004
Here's an angry comedy crossed with an expose and held together by one of those high-voltage Al Pacino performances that's so sure of itself we hesitate to demur.
...And Justice for All has no part in the stock trade of shock witnesses and surprising revelations. This is about how too many guilty people walk while the innocent take their places in overcrowded jails.
years after watching it you'll have no idea what the central trial was all about... but you'll certainly remember that, whatever it was, it was out of order!
