The Whole Truth

Hello, THE WHOLE TRUTH. Before download it's the movie. After download become other movie. Please advise.

I gave this a five, generously ( only for a twist I hadn't thought was coming, because I was so bored that I wasn't paying much attention until the twist was easily apparent ), and it deserves far less, for poor direction, acting, plotting (or rather, plodding), and not even bothering to try. I was as bored as the actors aimlessly strolling through their scenes like they were civil service employees doing the absolute minimum till quitting time. There is a great noir story here, and someone must have known it because they had Keanu attempting a noirish narration, but when you have a cast that couldn't care less about a script written by someone who apparently never saw any of the great nouveau noir films from the '80s or '90s, much less anything classic from the '40s or '50s, you wind up with a flat, boring story that is just a sad case of what could have been.

Okay I made a list of all the things I found wrong with this movie. 1. What was up with the narration? Was he lying to himself or what? Who was he narrating for? It's supposed to be his thoughts spoken out loud, but that makes no sense if he was lying? 2. Why did Ramsey want the kid to speak so badly? Surely this was the best possible outcome for him? What did he want the kid to say? Confess that it wasn't him and pin it on the mum instead? How would that help anyone? 3. How on earth did no one question why there was blood on the handle of the knife? That just seems so unlikely from one stab and made it so clear it was staged. 4. How on earth was he found not guilty? They based that off of one single testimony which happened to be from the guy on trial. Even when he was asked "were you in danger at that moment" he couldn't give a straight answer at first. Makes no sense. 5. Why didn't the kid change lawyer? Was he really so confident that he could outsmart a lawyer who clearly wanted him to get convicted? 6. Why did Ramsey kill the dad??? The dad didn't even know he was one who had an affair with his wife. Like what kind of psychopath kills his friend just like that. And how convenient that his watch fell without anyone noticing. I thought they were caught in the act by the husband and that his clothes were on the floor and he then forgot his watch or something. THAT would've made much more sense if Ramsey then killed him in self defence in the heat of an argument. Instead of planning a murder in like five minutes for no reason. 7. And what kind of cold hearted sociopath of a mum decides to pin the crime on her innocent son? Especially when she was happy to take the hit when Ramsey asked her to, why not do the same for her son? She could've admitted that the son was lying and said that she killed him in self defence like she had already planned. She showed so little emotions during the whole film too. I guess that made her and Ramsey the perfect psychopath couple, but still wth. It suddenly at least makes sense why her husband called her stupid all the time. All in all, it was watchable because it was just simply too unbelievable of a plot. That does not mean I recommend this movie to anyone though.

You have a defendant, a victim, a prosecutor, a judge and a jury. Then you have the defence. He has to come up with an argument for different kind of themes and topics that's being brought up: emotions, rationalities, causalities, effects, subjects, objectives, helpers, opponents. His dexterity is in co-authoring a story against the prosecutor that a jury sympathises with. It's like a game of chess. And if you are clever to follow the story that's being authored on the fly, you feel like getting warmer, getting to figure it all out. Except, you're wrong. And you were naive and too self-confident. Witnesses lie. They "all lie." And now, it's too raw for you to stomach.