Criminal Law (film)

Criminal Law is a 1989 thriller film directed by Martin Campbell and starring Gary Oldman and Kevin Bacon. It received overwhelmingly negative reviews.

Criminal Law received a decidedly unfavorable reaction from critics, with arotten rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Roger Ebert called the film a textbook example of a movie going wrong before our very eyes.Oldmans performance is generally regarded as one of the worst of his career. The film marks his first use of an American accent, which was derided by many critics for rendering his dialogue forced and stilted. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone gave a scathing appraisal of the performance, writing Oldman is a powerhouse...But whats a British actor doing playing a Harvard attorney in a Bostonbased movie shot in Montreal? Flailing about like a drowning man, thats what. Oldmans accent is laughably inandout. He added that Bacon delivers the films one modulated performance, while Oldman rants hysterically. ........

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