The Judge

11/20/2024

_"It's fine. Innocent people can't afford me."_ This movie came and went and no one really cared so I never checked it out til now. Pity it didn't do well because while the story is ok, the acting is pretty good. RDJ, Robert Duvall, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jeremy Strong, Billy Bob? This thing is packed! Might be a little too long, but the emotional father parts got to me.

10/18/2026

"Hank" (Robert Downey Jr) is one of those shrewd and unscrupulous defence lawyers who always manages to get his dodgy clients off - even when he suspects that they are as guilty as sin. He's had a long-term estranged relationship with his dad, the judge of forty-two years (Robert Duvall) which a trip back home for his mother's funeral does little to repair, but shortly after he returns to Chicago he gets a call to advise that his dad has been involved in an hit and run - and might well be facing murder charges. He returns to defend a man he finds insufferably overbearing and detatched and over the course of the next couple of hours we learn a little of what drove the wedge between them and his two brothers "Glen" (Vincent D'Onofrio) and the not exactly robust "Dale" (Jeremy Strong) whilst