Synopsis
An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.
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Cast
- Josh DuhamelBen Cahill
- Anthony HopkinsArthur Denning
- Al PacinoCharles Abrams
- Glen PowellDoug Fields
- Alice EveCharlotte Cahill
- Malin ÅkermanEmily Hynes
- Lee Byung-hunThe Accountant
- Julia StilesJane Clemente
- Marcus Lyle BrownJoe Bilson
- Leah McKendrickAmy
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
The new thriller Misconduct is getting kicked to the curb by its distributor, which is too bad, because director Shintaro Shimosawa's debut feature boasts an elegant visual style and a mystery plot with so many absurd twists that the film becomes enjoyable high melodrama. - 50
Variety
A flagrantly derivative but modestly diverting drama. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
The movie’s silly-arty aesthetic is regurgitated Polanski, and there’s a shameless script steal from "Presumed Innocent." - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
It's the sort of by-the-numbers, forgettable thriller, starring actors whose marquee days are behind them. - 33
The A.V. Club
If Misconduct were more lurid — or more shamelessly idiotic — it might at least be a guilty pleasure. But instead it’s slow-paced, and the filmmakers’ idea of cheap thrills is to make Emily a masochist, who gets turned on by being spanked and slapped around. - 30
Los Angeles Times
To say everyone plays like they're in separate movies is an understatement. - 25
New York Post
Some handsome location shooting in New Orleans doesn’t make up for the Oscar winners’ relentless hamming and a plot that twists way beyond credibility. - 25
RogerEbert.com
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live,” Joan Didion once said. And yet, watching Misconduct, a twisty but exceptionally bone-headed—one might even say cretinous—legal thriller, sitting through its story hardly felt like “living.”
