Personal Injuries

Personal Injuries is a legal thriller from Scott Turow. Robbie Feaver is  a personal injury lawyer in Kindle County and he is being used by FBI to go undercover and ferret out other judges to whom regular paybacks take place in order to deliver favourable orders. There is a whole of emotional drama to this story, with his wife dying of ALS, a female agent attached to him, his best friend in his firm whom he wants to protect at any cost. The story appears to be on weak ground at many places, though it started off very well. The narrative of Scott Turow, however is extremely good. Goodreads 3/5 

The Firm

The Firm is a 1993 movie featuring Tom Cruise and it is based on a John Grisham thriller of the same name. Grisham is known for his legal thrillers so this movie is also of the same genre. Tom is a young lawyer who gets an offer to join a small boutique law firm in Memphis, Tennessee, which he chooses over upshot law firms in New York etc. He is given royal treatment upon arrival with his wife. But slowly he learns of the firm's shady dealings with the Chicago mafia, the Moretto family. Meanwhile he also learns that none of the firm's associates ever resign on their own. They remain lifelong subjected to the firm's culture or are killed in mysterious ways. The FBI contacts him with more juicy details of the firm's illegal wrong doings and warns him to co-operate or end up as body bags like the other associates. His brother is in jail on man slaughter charges so Tom uses that as a leverage to have his brother released from jail while agreeing to co-operate with the Feds.

Directed by Sydney Pollack, this is a nice fast paced thriller, but Tom Cruise lets it down with his wooden acting. Others in the cast are Gene Hackman as his mentor, Jeanne Tripplehorn as his wife. and Ed Harris as the FBI agent.

The book is more fast paced than the movie is and there are more details in the book, which has not been adapted into the movie. 

The Firm

Just finished reading an exciting, throbbing, pulse pounding book "The Firm" by John Grisham. This is one of Grisham's earlier works hence very interesting, His later works are disappointing. This has been later made into a movie, but the movie is not as good as the book. Tom Cruise is wooden in the film and it moves very slowly and ponderously. Goodreads review 5/5