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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Aug 2011

The Chamber is like a balloon that all the air has leaked out of. Maybe it wasn't magnificent before, but in its current state it is sad indeed…

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By Jay L (562) on 01 May 2011

The Chamber is a lit down and disappointing film…

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By David S (4,459) on 25 Feb 2011

Ponderous and predictable waste of celluloid. The actors do their best but there's nothing there for them to work with…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 18 Jan 2011

The films portray the Klan as criminal, racist and anonymous, but those have always been its selling points; it is not portrayed as boring and stupid…

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By Jack W (1,198) on 17 Nov 2010

The problem with this movie (and Mr. Grisham's book) is that the plot doesn't quite add up…

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By Rika O (114) on 02 Jul 2010

The way this movie started, it had my interest right away, even though it was real sad…

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By Tasha W (121) on 02 Jul 2010

The way this movie started, it had my interest right away, even though it was real sad…

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By David A (1,816) on 18 Apr 2010

(from The Watermark 11/23/96) Another film based on a John Grisham novel about lawyers, murder, racism, and the KKK in Mississippi…

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By Ws W (1,791) on 28 Mar 2010

Too take it for granted simple, but alrightee & entertaining enough for a film made in mid-90s…

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By Ray J (665) on 06 Feb 2010

Gene Hackman is always Gene Hackman, and I like him too much to find him believable as a hate-filled, child-killing, remorseless death row…

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By Bryan G (631) on 24 Jan 2010

The movie is very well written and acted, but at times predictable…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 13 Jan 2010

The Chamber has nowhere to go and it goes there slowly, flirting in all directions…

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By Anton T (61) on 08 Jan 2010

This is a solid drama thriller starring Gene Hackman and Chris O'Donnell. Based off of a John Grisham novel…

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By Elvis Mitchell (489) for The New York Times (9,847) on 25 Dec 2009

Timing does no favors for The Chamber, the John Grisham death row drama that arrives on the heels of a better death row film (''Dead Man Walking'')…

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By Caporegime (13) on 13 Oct 2009

Not as intense as the other Grisham based films. Thumbs up to Hackman, only to him…

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By Laura A (286) on 04 Oct 2009

Just saw maybe the last hour of it. Seemed good but I need to see the whole thing…

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By Pauline L (196) on 01 Oct 2009

This movie proves how stupid is the racial hate, discrimination and how unnecessary it's the death sentence for me because doesn't gives a…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 06 Aug 2009

Mechanical and artificial, and tells you what to think…

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By Beth P (194) on 06 Jun 2009

I loved this, thought it was a very original story line with fantastic acting and the dialouge blew me away…

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By Benjamin G (275) on 22 Apr 2009

Like many screen adaptations of John Grisham novels, The Chamber is a competent but unremarkable piece of pop legal entertainment…

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