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...Dodd and Baron become defense counsel for Shu Kai Kim (Yuji Okumoto), who may or may not have killed a man eight years ago in China town. Baron is sure that Kim is innocent because Kim's mother, who begs him to take the case, is so nice and sweet. "Even Attila the Hun had a mother," cautions Dodd, but soon enough he too is persuaded to take the case...
...this sounds plausible to you, you're going to love True Believer. You'll probably even like the end of the movie, when Dodd does his best Perry Mason impression, getting the guilty man up on the stand and (suprise!) forcing him to break down and confess...
...Eddie Dodd. He doesn't issue subpoenas--instead, he chases his witnesses through factories and ware-houses. His idea of legal research is sneaking into the police station at night to look through classified files. He gets beat up one night on the streets of New York, and then the next day wanders unarmed into the headquarters of the Aryan Army to discover...
...Dodd is the True Believer in Joseph Ruben's latest film. The movie follows the adventures of lawyer Dodd (James Woods) and his associate Roger Baron (Robert Downey, Jr.) as the investigate the eight-year-old case of a gang-murder in Chinatown. Woods plays a jaded lawyer who was once a great civil-rights attorney, and Downey portrays an idealistic young law-school graduate who has come to New York to work for his idol, Dodd. True, Dodd has done nothing for the past ten years but defend drug dealers, but somehow Baron is unaware of this fact...
...flashbacks and and an overdose of overhead spiraling camera pans, True Believer attempts to be more than the B-level shlock it actually is. You aren't supposed to take the antics of T.V. lawyers Dan Fielding or Arnie Becker seriously. But you aren't supposed to laugh at Dodd...