Epic blurb from Bosley Crowther riffing on the opening and closing supposed dictionary definition of impact: "If anyone seeing this picture is willing to string along with that as a fair definition of 'impact,' we can't vouch for the film's appeal to him. For it seems fairly obvious that the authors have geared their intellect to the suppositional level of that phony lexicon. And everything which happens in the picture is as cheaply opportunist and contrived as that arbitrary definition. You either swallow it whole -- or you don't. Frankly, your correspondent doesn't." Needless to say, I don't have that problem with it, but it feels like a wasted opportunity. Great beginning, and I always liked the idea of a movie that starts off as something and then turns into something entirely else, like a guy running away from his murderous wife turns into a movie about his idyllic life in small town USA. But of course there's the need to tie everything back together, and when it becomes courtroom drama / procedural it really goes downhill.
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