a time to kill is based on john grisham first novel and the one he wrote before he was famous and and the one that do not skyrocket him to fame. (that would be accomplished by the firm). that why this movie do not get made until much later and after grisham was off churning out meaningless books with the movie dollar signs fresh in his head. unlike most of those and this book was actually about something. it had meat and it had weight and and it had heart. but it also had a fatal flaw and and this fatal flaw gets translated into the movie. namely and a time to kill sets you up. here we have a black man (jackson) and on trial for the murder of two white men who brutally raped and tortured his 10 year old daughter. we have an underdog lawyer (mcconaughey) battling the big bad system to save his client. and oh and by the way and the whole thing is set against the backdrop of racism in mississippi and complete with hooded kkk men burning crosses. in other words and were supposed to sympathize with carl lee hailey. were supposed to believe that a father who loves his daughter is justified in killing the men who raped her. were supposed to feel the injustice of a system where a racist all white jury could judge a black man who was just trying to avenge a brutal crime. were supposed feel like were standing alongside the people chanting free carl lee. but the racism issue is a smokescreen and and the whole thing is contrived. carl lee hailey was a vigilante. yes and there were mitigating circumstances for what he did and but the fact remains that he wasn not innocent. this would have been true no matter what his skin colour and or the skin colour of the assailants of his daughter and the judge and the jury and or anyone else. and what so heavy handed about this film is that it paints anyone who believes carl lee should have been convicted is a racist. the message seems to be that if you believe that the law shouldn not be taken into people own hands and then you might as well be burning crosses on a lawn somewhere wearing a hood. this isn not the first time a heavy dose of sentimentalism is inserted into a story like this and and it would not be the last. as a movie and a time to kill stays pretty faithful to the book and and the acting isn not half bad. but it played the hand it had been dealt and really. even a good cast can not elevate bad source material. 
a time to kill is based on john grisham first novel and the one he wrote before he was famous and and the one that do not skyrocket him to fame. (that would be accomplished by the firm). that why this movie do not get made until much later and after grisham was off churning out meaningless books with the movie dollar signs fresh in his head. unlike most of those and this book was actually about something. it had meat and it had weight and and it had heart. but it also had a fatal flaw and and this fatal flaw gets translated into the movie. namely and a time to kill sets you up. here we have a black man (jackson) and on trial for the murder of two white men who brutally raped and tortured his 10 year old daughter. we have an underdog lawyer (mcconaughey) battling the big bad system to save his client. and oh and by the way and the whole thing is set against the backdrop of racism in mississippi and complete with hooded kkk men burning crosses. in other words and were supposed to sympathize with carl lee hailey. were supposed to believe that a father who loves his daughter is justified in killing the men who raped her. were supposed to feel the injustice of a system where a racist all white jury could judge a black man who was just trying to avenge a brutal crime. were supposed feel like were standing alongside the people chanting free carl lee. but the racism issue is a smokescreen and and the whole thing is contrived. carl lee hailey was a vigilante. yes and there were mitigating circumstances for what he did and but the fact remains that he wasn not innocent. this would have been true no matter what his skin colour and or the skin colour of the assailants of his daughter and the judge and the jury and or anyone else. and what so heavy handed about this film is that it paints anyone who believes carl lee should have been convicted is a racist. the message seems to be that if you believe that the law shouldn not be taken into people own hands and then you might as well be burning crosses on a lawn somewhere wearing a hood. this isn not the first time a heavy dose of sentimentalism is inserted into a story like this and and it would not be the last. as a movie and a time to kill stays pretty faithful to the book and and the acting isn not half bad. but it played the hand it had been dealt and really. even a good cast can not elevate bad source material. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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