I saw "Roman J. Israel, Esq.", starring Denzel Washington-The Equalizer, Deja Vu; Colin Farrell-Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Horrible Bosses; Carmen Ejogo-Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Tony Plana-The Fosters_tv, Ugly Betty_tv. This is a strange little movie. I really like Denzel, and he is good in this, but the movie was not that great. He plays a partner in a Los Angeles law firm. His partner is the hot shot defense attorney that tries the cases and Denzel is the facts guy-he knows everything his partner needs to know, just by memory, without having to look it up. Only problem is, his partner dies. Colin-another lawyer-comes in and scoops Denzel up for his firm, because he knows how smart Denzel is. Carmen plays a woman that runs a center that does lots of protesting for civil rights causes. She befriends Denzel-again, because of his knowledge-and he does some lectures for some of her workers, to help motivate them. Tony plays another lawyer in Colin's firm that thinks Denzel's eccentric ways are just a little too much. Like I said, Denzel is good as his character. It is a little different than most of the roles he has played before. He is real intelligent but shuffles when he walks, keeps his eyes down when someone is talking to him, likes to eat donuts on the beach and he has a gap between his two front teeth-which I read is real. He had caps put in when he was in High school and took them out for this roll. Oh yeah, I did not care for the ending-I won't give it away here, but I think they could have done better. It's rated "PG-13" for language and violence and has a running time of 2 hours & 9 minutes. It's not a bad movie but I was a little disappointed. I would not buy it on DVD. It would be alright as a rental, if you are a fan of his work-like I am-but otherwise, I would wait for it to come to cable.
Review of Roman J. Israel, Esq.
