Dominic Cooper stars as ambitious "hot-shot' Asst. District Attorney Mitch Brockden. He's leading a rather idyllic life with a beautiful wife (Erin Karpluk), a newborn baby daughter, and he's on the fast track to possibly become a District Attorney.

However, one night after drinking with his colleagues, he decides to drive home while intoxicated and hits a pedestrian with his SUV. Panicking and worried about his career, he runs to a nearby pay phone and calls for an ambulance, but then drives off leaving the severely injured man in the road.

The next day Mitch learns on the news that a man named Clinton Reasonable Doubt is a far fetched and implausible thriller with a short running time. I think the director decided to call it quits quickly and not make the audience suffer anymore.

Mitch Brockden (Dominic Cooper) a rising District Attorney has a night out with his colleagues, gets drunk and drives home and runs over someone. He calls an ambulance and swiftly leaves the man behind.

Clinton Davis (Samuel L Jackson) gets arrested for killing the man that Mitch had left on the road. His body was found in his van. Clinton claims he was just taking him to the hospital.

Racked with guilt, Mitch prosecutes the case but does enough to make sure Clinton is let off.

The police reckon Clinton might be a vengeful serial killer as his family was murdered. Once Clinton is freed, there is a cat and mouse game between the two. Mitch knows Clinton suspects him as he was there when he ran over the man. Clinton realises that Mitch thinks he is a killer.

Cooper is not strong enough to carry a modest thriller like this. You care little about his morally suspect character and Jackson's character is compromised as some kind of avenger when he threatens innocent people.

It is a feeble thriller and a poorly executed one as the makers realised that the film does not make any sense.

After a night of celebration Mitch Brockden, a young and cocky District Attorney, becomes involved in a car accident by knocking over a man who runs out in front of him. Panicking, he calls 911 and then leaves the scene. Brockden then soon learns that the man he ran over was murdered after he left the scene, and that police have a suspect by the name of Clinton Davis in custody. Brockden is assigned to the case, but believing that the wrong man is being charged, he deliberately throws the case ending in Davis being found not guilty. Unfortunately for Mitch, as he delves deeper, he begins to realise that there is much more to Davis than meets the eye.

Reasonable Doubt is pretty much your run-of-the-mill crime thriller...nothing more, nothing less. It's a decently told story, but it's nothing really to get too excited about. The film is actually pretty rushed to be honest and it would probably have been better if there was another 30 minutes of it. It just goes by pretty fast. I mean one minute it's only an IF it goes to court, then the next thing you see it's basically half way through the trial. If the story was told with a bit more detail, like I say, I think it would have been better.

It's not really an original story either and this type of plot has been done plenty of times before. I'm not complaining because the film was pretty enjoyable, but if you want originality then you'd be best looking elsewhere.

Decently acted as well, especially by Jackson (but that goes without saying really), but Dominic Cooper is a touch over-the-top in some parts in portraying his character.

Overall, Reasonable Doubt isn't too bad of a film to watch and you could do worse.

This film was relatively small but with the star power in Dominic Cooper and Samuel L Jackson plus an interesting premise I gave it a shot and I'm kinda glad I did. The premise sees Cooper as a District Attorney who accidentally hits a man with his car, when he throws the trial against the wrongfully accused man some dark secrets are revealed for both men. Now I do really like Dominic Cooper as an actor and this film once again shows how good an actor he is, this is a completely different role to his usual and he does a really good job in the role. The supporting cast is mostly pretty bad except for the obvious of Samuel L Jackson, the mysterious character he plays is perfect for his acting credentials and even with the weak dialogue for him he manages to make the best of what he is given. The story is somewhat interesting with the main story between Cooper and Jackson being really interesting and making a good shade of grey to the main characters. But there is other characters that are completely uninteresting and not important story developments. The script is alright and mainly good for Cooper but Jackson tries his best with what he is given and the rest of the cast didn't stand a chance. The style is quite cliché for films like this but I do think some of the tense situations work because of the style it was filmed in that helped add that tension. Overall this film is okay and if you like suspense films then you might just enjoy this film.