YMMV / ...And Justice for All

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• Award Snub: One of Al Pacino's many acting performances in The '70s that got nominated for an Academy Award and didn't win. Also, John Forsythe's underrated and unconventional performance as a monster of a Hanging Judge that was considerably darker then his usual genial and very kind roles such as "Charlie" was overlooked for a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
• Complete Monster: The "Honorable" Judge Henry T. Fleming is despised by the community for being a sadist in robes. Fleming frequently sentences people harshly, advocates death for armed robbery, and coldly sends them to prison to ruin their lives. Even when they are innocent, Fleming callously stonewalls any attempt to release them, resulting in their rapes, beatings, and even suicides. For all his pretense of harsh justice to keep the peace, Fleming is nothing more than a criminal himself who violently raped and beat a woman, selecting a defender who hates him just to force the man to compromise his ethics to help get Fleming off.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Jack Warden really shines in his scenes as the eccentric, mentally unstable, but very charismatic Judge Rayford.
• Moment of Awesome:
  Kirkland: [shouting] My client, the Honorable Henry T. Fleming, SHOULD GO RIGHT TO FUCKING JAIL! THE SON OF A BITCH IS GUILTY!!!
• Harsher in Hindsight: The similarly-named Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All also has a Crusading Lawyer blackmailed into defending a client he knows is guilty.
• He Really Can Act: Who would have thought The Voice of the benevolent, very kind and likable "Charlie" from Charlie's Angels John Forsythe can play an utterly monstrous Hanging Judge at his core so naturally.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • What happens to Jeff—an innocent man who still ended up going to jail despite all the evidence, and is cruelly raped by the prisoners and killed by the guards after he snaps, taking hostages—is enough to make you question the entire legal system.
  • The pictures of the rape victim are horrifying, with her face severely disfigured and wounds all over her body.
  • The rapist himself—Judge Henry T. Fleming, combined with his corruption as a judge, it becomes increasingly apparent that the man at his core is an utterly monstrous inhuman being. In a subtle manner, it's unsettlingly and uncomfortably the darkest acting performance of screen acting veteran John Forsythe aka The Voice of the benevolent, very kind and likable "Charlie."
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Jeffrey Tambor makes his film debut as Jay Porter.
  • Joe Morton is the prison doctor.

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