watch this movie because it feature tom berenger only to find out he only have a supporting role . he should have bypass this one . the plot be not only bizarre it be quite unrealistic . if one believe that every thing be preordain and then that be the only way the plot would have work and that the character have no control over their life . it begin absurdly . no attorney would ever do what gooding do sell out his client and no matter how heinous the client be . a client place his or her trust in the attorney and it be unconscionable for an attorney to violate that trust unless the client reveals to the attorney he be go to commit a crime . gooding be frame in the story . the frame would only work if gooding decide to assume authorship of the manuscript of the dead man . many people would not have do that so why would anyone go to all the effort of write the book on the tenuous assumption that gooding would assume authorship and in the process destroy the original manuscript . another example be when gooding pick up the automatic that the murderer have use to kill beringer . the script at that point have the killer look at gooding and say you be hold the gun and implying that gooding fingerprint be on the gun . what the screen writer forgot be that gooding have be a good defense attorney and thus would have know that his hand have no gun powder residue on them but that the killer have gun powder residue from the automatic on his hand . gooding would have go free but instead the script have him kill the villain which put gun powder residue on gooding hand . with that type of evidence it be most unrealistic to expect that a jury would have acquit gooding . gooding seem more often than not to mouth his dialog . he be anything but convince in this role . they should have leave this movie in the can .