The Movie: This film is about a young lawyer with a bleeding heart and a reputation for being morally upstanding, getting caught up with (and having to battle) a legal system that is rife with corruption. It features an amazing performance from Al Pacino, and covers some very heavy issues, perhaps even casting doubt on some aspects of how our criminal justice system is run. I laughed, I cried (ok not really), I got angry... this film is quite good at eliciting a pretty wide range of emotional responses.

I guess the one thing I didn't like about this film was the ending... it seemed rather abrupt and at least to me, left a lot of unanswered questions. By the way, don't be fooled by all this talk about laws and ethics and stuff... this isn't your typical "court room drama" -- in fact, hardly any of this film takes place inside of court rooms.

The bottom line is And Justice For All is definitely worth a look, so check it out some time!

The DVD: This is a dual-sided disc with an anamorphic widescreen version on one side, and an unmatted 4:3 full frame version on the other. The video transfer is relatively clean, and actually the film ends up looking pretty good for its age, although there is a bit of softness and noticeable edge enhancement going on. The audio is in the original mono. The sound is pretty clean with a level of fidelity consistent with a film of this era. As far as extras go, you get a trailer for the film in anamorphic widescreen, a trailer for Donnie Brasco in letterboxed widescreen, as well as a director's audio commentary track. Overall a pretty average DVD production effort, but definitely still worth at least the rental for the film itself.