Have to admit I am comparing this a lot to the movie with Bogart. First off Kiefer Sutherland is great, he basically opens and closes the movie in his two tour de force scenes on the stand. I like that Maryk is more confident in this version about his decision. I never had the impression in the 1954 movie that Van Johnson (Maryk) was confident about removing Queeg from command. Monica Raymund as prosecutor Challee is great, she never loses steam and is relentless on the witnesses when she has to be. Two issues I have which brings the rating down for me. Again, this is comparing to the movie which may not be fair. First being, in the 1954 movie Keefer is always in the ear of Maryk about Queeg's behavior, thus basically talking Maryk into removing Queeq from command and again in the 1954 movie we know that Keefer is lying on the stand. Which leads me to the second issue. At the end of this movie, like in 1954, Greenwald (Maryk's lawyer) blames Keefer for the mutiny. However in this movie you never get that impression, so I can see how it might come as complete surprise if you are watching that without context. Also, in this version, we know that Queeg is coming back to the stand at some point, so we always have that looming over the whole movie and know it will be a showdown, making everything else that came before, academic. They are giving away the finale.
Review of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
