Ranking Aaron Sorkin Films From Worst To Best
3. A Few Good Men
Based on his own stage play, Sorkin adapted A Few Good Men into a feature script that became his first film. His skill as a writer was on full display in what is now considered one of the greatest courtroom dramas of all time. After two marines are accused of murder, lawyer Daniel Kaffee must defend them as they attest that they were acting under orders.
A Few Good Men is a complex film that shines a light on some of the less appealing military customs and expectations. Sorkin is smart in knowing just how to keep the audience engaged and curious into how the incident in question went down. Tom Cruise is fantastic as well and Kaffee is one of his best roles.
It is the courtroom scenes that are the main appealing factor of this film however. Sorkin weaves together the back and forth between lawyers and witnesses in such a compelling way that you feel as tense as you would watching any action scene or thriller. Jack Nicholson is mesmerising as colonel Jessup, a stern and proud man who Kaffee must try and break down slowly.
Nicholson is also the man who utters one of the most iconic lines in cinema history in one of the best scripted sequences of all time.