National Review, August 9th, 1993
The Firm, based on John Grisham's best-selling novel, is such a movie, in which the characters vie with the gadgetry as to who can be more machine-like. And when, in a long film, everything moves at an unremittingly breakneck pace--intrigue and counterintrigue, plus the dialogue itself--I feel that Chaplin, in Modern Times, engorged by a noncomputerized machine, was still living in Arcadia. O for the thrillers by Simenon, Agatha Christie, and their likes, when the dramatics personae were not Martians with hypertrophice heads housing computers instead of minds.
Mitch McDeere, our hero, is th...
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