The Chamber - review

Mississippi 1967, a family is destroyed when the father’s building is blown up with him and his young sons inside.

Chicago 1996 and lawyer Adam Hall is re-watching the footage of his grandfather’s arrest following the tragedy and resolves to get him a reprieve while on death row for murder.

Against the advice of his employer – the lawyer his grandfather has just fired – Adam heads to Mississippi to get to know the grandfather he didn’t know existed until after his father’s death.

With his racism apparent, Adam struggles to get Sam on his side informing him that unless he co-operates there’s no doubt his execution will go ahead in 30 days. But Adam has no idea what he’s got himself into as he digs further into his family’s past and discovers how the actions and involvement with the Klu Klux Klan have poisoned everyone throughout the years.

Gripping legal drama starring Gene Hackman, Chris O’Donnell & Faye Dunaway based on a novel by John Grisham which kept me watching until the end, but wasn’t as good as I’d hoped. 

Still worth a watch.