Put together, though, the movie adds up to considerably less than the sum of its parts, as a team of writers and director Robert Markowitz have little time to develop characters or set up plot twists.
On paper, the producers have assembled a top-notch cast, with Jeanne Tripplehorn as the JAG officer investigating the case, Arliss Howard as Tyson’s country lawyer and John Heard as the whistle-blower, driven by pangs of conscience as he faces his mortality due to cancer. Unwilling to speak about those wartime events, Tyson finds himself on trial and his family thrust into the midst of a tabloid hurricane, down to allegations about his wife (Sharon Lawrence) and her past sexual peccadilloes. Piecing together its mystery through extensive, sometimes conflicting flashbacks, the film also features Johnson’s son, Jesse, as the star’s younger self, sporting a resemblance so striking that Disney’s animatronic unit couldn’t have constructed a more convincing replica.īased on a novel by Nelson DeMille, whose previous adaptations include “The General’s Daughter,” “Honor” centers on a successful businessman, Benjamin Tyson (Johnson), suddenly accused of having presided over a mass murder in a Vietnamese hospital three decades earlier.
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