With strong overtones of To Kill a Mockingbird, A Time to Kill shows how little has changed In America in fifty years (or has it?) White supremacists still walk free, the racial debate is still the subject of angry politics, and the relationship between the black man and the white man strained at best. The relationship between Matthew McConnaughey and Samuel L Jackson is the highlight of the movie – terse, quiet, the latter never believing in the former’s empathy, the former always on the back foot in establishing himself as a legitimate “white” lawyer for a black man. The summation scene lacks the intensity of most Grisham adaptations
