Comment:
The Rainmaker as a whole is not a bad movie but it seems to fail in a number of parts which could have been thought in a better way. Probably its main demerit is that it is based on (yet another!) John Grisham novel which can hardly be squeezed into a two hours movie without either mutilate it or make it boring and tiresome.

The story is a fairly 'standard' courtroom drama which features a young attorney fighting against a team of lawyers who defend an insurance company that refused to pay the cures to a boy dying of leukemia. The main story is surrounded by some other subplots which shows how the main character started his career as a lawyer, his initial economical problems, his first approaches with the strict protocol of the court and the typical love story.

These subplots start more or less on the same level as the main plot but then they seem to fade away and are simply relegated to secondary places. Some storylines are truncated without giving a satisfying explanation and conclusion which seems particularly strange considering that at the beginning the movie is slow and seems to linger on minor and not relevant facts.

Fortunately the initial slowness is replaced by some nice ideas and a few witty moments, it's a pity that this happens only after one hour of slow movie! Then the rhythm stays sustained until the end which is not particularly interesting and touching nor completely predictable and weak.

Given some of the premises and given my sensibility to some of the aspect of the story, I expected the movie to convey some sad or pathetic feeling... However, this didn't happen at all, not even in the most touching scenes or in the final speech in the courtroom. I'm not sure about the reason for the 'failure' of these parts of the movie, probably everything looked so ordinary and conventional which is the overall rate of the whole movie.