The Whole Truth (2016)

So much average

Great Film overall

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

The Whole Truth: Directed by Courtney Hunt and written by Nicolas Kazan using a pseudonym Rafael Jackson.Keanu Reeves as a defense lawyer defending a teenager who killed his father and confessed to the crime. He also refuses to talk to his attorney. This makes his job almost impossible. This movie is intentionally deceiving in a lot of ways. The mystery of what actually happened is the entire crux of the movie and it was flimsy to say the least. You know right from the very beginning that the boy didn't kill his dad. You get the sense that the kid is clearly protecting his mom. His mom is supposed to have been in this horrific abusive long relationship with Jim Belushi's character. It doesn't feel like it though. Renee Zellweger, an Oscar winner for Cold Mountain is just lifeless in this movie. Keanu Reeves has more personality than she does. We all know how limited he is. He's fine in this movie. He also is holding onto a secret. This movie really hinges on this mystery. It tries to confuse you with different points of view as for how things happened. It doesn't necessarily walk into Rashomon territory but it runs close. It just does not work and the twist comes out of nowhere and doesn't begin to redeem this very lifeless movie. I give this movie a D.

After she said she in a press conference years ago that she was finished at 40 with acting lolMust be skint and needed the money to pay for all that plastic surgery.Seriously though, I didnt know it was Zelwegger until someone told me. Dont get me wrong she looks very good for her age but she looks like someone totally different and her acting was instantly forgettable as was the whole awful funeral dirge of a movie.Sadly for her this wasnt even good enough to be an episode of a lame tv detective series , awful script, Keanu doing his usual wooden performance and stilted voice acting; dont get me wrong I liked him in the much better John Wick movies but he could have been any actor in this.The story was not unusual or remarkeable and that is what is needed these days after landmark movies like "7" and Saw - the audience is expecting something that will tweak their brain and not some old formulaeic straight to dvd wet weekday afternoon movie for stay at home mums/or dads to while away the hours. I was half expecting Adrian Paul and Jane Seymour to turn up lolIf this is Renee's comeback movie then I am afraid she should not have come back lolSome people seem to think the ending was unexpected but both of us figured it out within the first 15 mimnutes of the movie - for a movie to be a good one thats a bad start. I just couldnt get over Keanus awful stilted voice droning on and on and on - its as if he was just picking up a cheque and bored with the whole thing!

This has to be the worst ever courtroom drama ever i have ever seen in my whole life. There no plot and the twist at the end is really laughable. Take my words, avoid this turkey with a 10 meter pole you will thank me for it. Any the practice episode is better than this turkey of a movie.1/10 , if there's a minus 10 points i would give it -10.

The Whole Truth: courtroom drama with Keanu Reeves starring as a lawyer trying to defend a young man who allegedly killed his father but refuses to speak.It has a pretty interesting script. The plot twist, somewhat predictable near the end, is just almost good enough to offset the monotonous first half of the movie. Keanu's wooden expression actually worked. Rene Zellweger looks so sullen... but then we get a reminder of why she won an Oscar many years ago. All-in-all the premise of the movie is interesting and the tidbits of facts thrown in between the court scenes reveals just enough at the right time.It's a passable lawyer movie, if you can get past the talking-heads first half of the movie. After three consecutive witnesses were put on stand, I heard some snoring in the theatre 😆