A Few Good Men (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #15 extract: A Few Good Men (1992)

I've seen it many times over, and it's not a masterpiece, but this movie always works and never fails to keep my attention. 

Performances all round are great, especially Tom Cruise's, and are supported incredibly well by Reiner's direction of the camera. He allows his actors to take control of the frame and shoots for a seamless edit that allows every major scene to flow perfectly. Above all of this, however, is Sorkin's tremendous script. Whilst his general structure and subtext are nothing remarkable, the dialogue he creates is sensational; it's not its content, but the punch and beat of the lines - truly brilliant. 

All in all, this is then rightly the great movie we all remember for the line: "You can't handle the truth!"