The Judge


In The Judge, Downey stars as big city lawyer Hank Palmer, who returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town’s judge (Duvall), is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.

Wow!  I thought this was pretty much one of those movies where you saw the trailer you saw the movie and to a certain extent it was.  There wasn't much that you didn't see coming and that should have been a bad thing with a 2 hour 15 minute family/courtroom drama.  But it wasn't.  I loved this movie.  The acting was awesome and felt so real across the board.  It was awesome to see Robert Downey Jr knocking one out of the park in a non-action or super hero role.  He was amazing showing such a huge amount of emotions.  And the direction of the movie was done so well that even though you knew that your heart strings were being pulled you didn't care because you were so invested in the well crafted characters and watching this all play out.

I would absolutely recommend people checking this movie out.  It's one of the best movies I've seen this year and never expected to like this as much as I did.