Why is this movie so underrated?!

Yeah you got a good point. I hear a filmmaker once say that the '70s was the last decade of the independent film. Beginning in the early '80s, studios started to see the $$ that were out there thanks to movies like Jaws and Star Wars. Not that those two didn't totally rock. But the efforts of the directors and writers of those films to bring something unique to the screen inadvertently destroyed the independent Hollywood of the 60s and 70s.

Now, we get tripe like remakes of old T.V. shows, retellings of stories that have been told time and again, and sequels. This isn't to say that all of the stuff coming out of Hollywood today is bad.

On the contrary... Avatar was one of the best movies I've ever seen. It's just that films like that are few and far betwen these days.

It's fitting that "And Justice For All" came out at the end of the '70s. It was a fitting end to a great decade for movies.

I agree definitely highly underrated.. not a 10 mind u but worthy of an 8 I think,, he gives a great performance, and this is probably one of the better courtroom movies I've seen.
are you going to bark all day little doggie,, or are you going to bite

Basically a social commentary on the corruptness of the legal system. A bit over the top, and with numerous comedic scenes.

It's my second favorite Pacino movie, next to "Scent of a Woman". I like his films where he does his thing with words, and not the ones where he goes berserk and creates a bloodfest.

"And Justice for All" would probably be a limited release art movie if it came out today. It doesn't contain the ingredients necessary for a mainstream film by today's standards.

I saw it the" first time with a buddy at a multiplex. We had originally paid to see "Blue Lagoon", but when the promoted Brooke Shields nudity failed to materialize, we snuck into the one next door, and it turned out to be this film. I have watched it numerous times over the last 30+ years.

One criticism I hear from younger folks is that they like the movie, but can't handle the disco soundtrack. Dave Grusin wrote the score, and was a respected composer. He was merely writing in the style of music popular at the time. "Saturday Night Fever" had come out two years prior, and disco was what the mass audience was listening to. Older people now say they hated disco back in the day, but trust me, they didn't at the time.

While it's no masterpiece I still highly recommend it to Al Pacino fans.

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