There is something wrong with this. Harrison Ford's tendency towards diffidence actually helps him here and there is sufficient edginess to the crime to engage the viewer with the power struggling between the various males enough to maintain momentum. There are moments, however, when we suspend disbelief, in the hope that events will make amends and that the overall complexities will reveal something we were not originally aware of. All well and good but the flat ending to the protracted court proceedings followed by the jaw dropping conclusion leave one feeling cheated for having invested in some of the half baked and more ridiculous moments. Pakula seems to have lost the plot somewhere for although the difficulties may be problems inherent with the original novel it is unlikely for surely then nobody would have been drawn to filming it in the first place. It is a shame because for a good part of the first half this really looks as if it is going somewhere.