Now in fairness there is nothing wrong about a bit of lawyer showboating, in fact the best courtroom movies tend to have some sort of showboating in them but "Shadow of a Doubt" feels like it is only about the showboating with the actual crime story being less important.
Of course you wonder whether being a drunk means he is also a patsy in all this. And of course as an old flame the expected scenes surrounding the spark between them appear but are so ridiculously over the top with one culminating with a romp on a desk near the chalk outline of her dead husband being so bad it is laughable.īut then we also have the trouble that here we have a court case which is supposedly about Charley trying to get Angel off but then ends up all about the character of Charley, his almost arrogance in court whilst also the DA's defamation of character as he makes out he is an unfit lawyer. When Charley walks into his office and finds Robin standing there looking out of his window with a cigarette in hand it is like a femme fatale character from a 1940s film-noir has been dumped into a 90s movie. "Shadow of a Doubt" was filmed in British Columbia, Canada.Īndy Webb of The Movie Scene awarded "Shadow of a Doubt" a rating of 3 out of 5 stars, saying that it "ends up entertaining but in a bit of a bad movie way due to the over the top performances and a variety of forced scenes."Īdrian Turner from Radio Times gave it a rating of three stars out of 5, saying: " Dennehy has the heavyweight presence of Raymond Burr's Perry Mason, but he's nearly matched by Fairuza Balk's turn as the troubled teen.Part of the trouble with "Shadow of a Doubt" is the simple fact it is over the top from the word go and feels incredibly forced.
Charley Sloane, an alcoholic defense lawyer defends his ex-lover's stepdaughter when she is accused of murdering her father.
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