5/5 Very Dramatic
  by David A. Smith (Webberville, Mi, USA)
This is a very good dramma. this movie is really good. samul l. jackson is awesome in this movie. this is a must see

4/5 Blu-Ray Review
  by Outrageous (CT)
This movie looks very good on blu-ray and you don't have to flip it over half way through viewing like the standard dvd........lol
A good price on Amazon too.

5/5 The scary thing is, it's still happening today
  by Eric S. Kim (Southern California)
"A Time to Kill" still can't be more true to what's happening in the United States of America. Even now as an African-American man has become our president, we still have violent racist acts occurring especially in the South. Why is there so much hate and violence? This film touches on these sorts of subjects. Samuel L. Jackson stars as a man who has been charged for the murder of two white men who have raped his ten-year old daughter. What happens next is an ongoing conflict in the state of Mississippi that involves the color of our skins. The real question here is: Was it right or wrong for Carl Lee to kill those who have plagued his family in the first place?

Before the atrocious "Batman and Robin," Joel Schumacher directed this masterpiece with no homoerotic overtones, no idiotic one-liners, and no flashy lights. This is pure reality that's filled with strong and realistic issues. Jackson, Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Kevin Spacey, Kiefer & Donald Sutherland, and Patrick McGoohan all give very outstanding performances. I'm still surprised that none of these people were even nominated for an oscar. All in all, this is a provocative motion picture that deserves an A.

1/5 Lynching is okay...if it's done for politically correct reasons.
  by maskirovka (Alexandria, Virginia)
"A Time to Kill" is in my opinion an abomination of a movie. It asks the audience to say that a man whose daughter is viciously raped by two subhumans is entitled to illegally obtain an M-16 automatic rifle, hide in the courthouse where the two accused rapists are being arraigned, and then fire said M-16 on full automatic, killing not only the two suspects (who are handcuffed and sitting ducks) but also grievously wounding a police officer who was escorting them.

What makes all of this okay to Grisham, the author of the novel "A Time to Kill" and to the producers of this movie is that the suspected rapists are white and the victim of their assault and her father are black. Somehow, that makes it all okay. It's almost as if Grisham and company think that black people are entitled to carry out a few lynchings because they've frequently been the victims of them. "A Time to Kill" carries this out to ludicrous extremes...even the police officer wounded in the indiscriminate assault forgives the father...despite the fact that he had to have a leg amputated because of the wound he sustained in the attack. If I was an innocent bystander who was injured in attack like that, it wouldn't matter if the killer had the best reasons in the world to do what he did...I wouldn't be able to just write off the loss of my leg to good will.

For those who think this mercifully fictional story is a good one with a satisfactory ending (the killer gets a walk), I have a challenge for them...switch around the races. If the killer and his daughter were white and the two perps were black would that still make for a good story? Hardly...from coast to coast, the politically correct would be denouncing "A Time to Kill" as a justification of lynching (which it is). And God forbid if something like it ever happened in real life. Reverend Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would never shut up about how justice had been subverted.

Think about what this movie asks us to endorse. A horrible rape of a child takes place. The law apprehends two men who probably did it. The justice system spools up in all of its majesty to determine their guilt or innocence and exact justice. But the murderer who Grisham and company ask us to embrace says "Sorry, I won't wait around for that" and kills the two suspected rapists while they are in handcuffs before the justice system has even been given a chance to act (if the movie had had the father killing them after the justice system failed "A Time to Kill" might have been an interesting and worthwhile movie). And he does so in a courthouse and in a manner where any number of innocent people (besides the police officer who was turned into a cripple by him) could have been killed or injured. And Grisham and the makers of this movie ask us to believe that his acquittal is "justice."

Maybe it is for them, but it sure isn't for me. So if you believe in equal application of the law and abhor vigilante action and lynchings, avoid this movie.p

1/5 DVD doesn't work
  by Sandra D. Idleman (with dust bunnies)
I ordered this and it didn't work. Paid for two day shipping. Got a replacement - took a week and it had the same thing wrong with it. But, never got credit for my first one and next one wasn't a charge - so no refund. Would like to contact them to see if I'll get credit on the first one, but - I can't find where I can would contact Amazon.

Also, found out I was charged $79 for their prime shipping which I NEVER signed up for. I probably order less than 10 items a year from Amazon. Very disgusted and doubt I'll come here first to buy anything. Definitely won't buy any dvd's from them.

Still haven't gotten to see the movie. I had just finished the book and wanted to see the movie right after it.

Curious to see if they print the reviews that don't make them look good.