The DIESEL is at it Again, With a Huge Straight-no-Chase Comeback from Sidney Lumet!

Unlike most people, I have nothing against VIn Diesel. Their is a huge part of me that feels he can carry a film wether it's mind-numbing(Fast and the Furious, Triple X) or at least thought provoking(Boiler Room, Pitch Black). Arrogance that matches his bite, he proves to be a connisseur of theatrics with his recent involvement with attaing the rights to "Guys and Dolls". A child raised on broadway musicals, he knows the score and can deliver, with a helmer as Sidney Lumet(fan-favorite) you can't go wrong. My infatuation with Vin Diesel came to me when I was in high school and "Fast and the Furious" came out. THe way Vin Diesel presented himself in that movie with really memorable one-liner had impersonating him in the high school locker room. "Ask any racer, any real racer. It's doesn't matter if you win by an inch or a mile. Winning is Winning", wow, that was pretty cool to some degree. Now here he is playing rambuctious in tone, but subtle in character, gangster in "Find me Guilty". THe true story of Jack DiNorscio, gangster who defended himself in a trial with 20 defendants and 4 prosecuters that led into a long, long ass trial. You get the sense of that while watching the endurance of what everybody had to goe through. I'm a big fan of courtroom dramas, two of my favorite sub-genres are "Post-apocalyptic" and "court-drama". I was sucker for this, but unlike most court room dramas this didn't play by the books, as it favored the usual bad guys as honorable good men and the prosecuter as sniveling tyrants. This had me howling at the screen and Lumet has made the most inventive film of the year. A courtoom drama with serious intent, but takes comedic turns. It's as if in the beginning of the violent opening turns into a Chaplin ordeal. It worked. Recently last year Lumet, won the Oscar for lifetime achievement and quoted Godard as a major influence. What way to show his appreciation by making this movie. Courtroom drama that isn't a courtroom drama, but a comedy about loyalty and not ratting on your friends!