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Just Cause (1995)
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Reviews Counted:25
Fresh:6
Rotten:19
Average Rating:4.1/10
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong travels to the Florida Everglades in order to overturn the death sentence of a man he believes was wrongly convicted. He soon finds, though, that his years in... Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong travels to the Florida Everglades in order to overturn the death sentence of a man he believes was wrongly convicted. He soon finds, though, that his years in academia have softened him to the real world, where he tangles with the cop who first handled the case and who may have coerced the defendant's confession. As Armstrong closes in on the truth he also endangers his life. [More]
Starring: Sean Connery, Blair Underwood, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Harris
Starring: Sean Connery, Blair Underwood, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Harris, Kate Capshaw
Director: Arne Glimcher
Director: Arne Glimcher
Screenwriter: Peter Stone, Jeb Stuart
Producer: Stephen Perry, Lee Rich, Arne Glimcher
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Reviews for Just Cause
Things heat up for the last bang-up 40 minutes all right, but why did director Arne Glimcher feel it necessary to go so formulaically dull at first?
The plot machinations here become so contrived and the coincidences so bizarre that by the end ... audience members will likely be scratching their heads.
Ridiculous from start to finish. Connery, Harris, and Fishburne couldn't have wasted their time in a less productive fashion.
It's brutal, horribly manipulative, and we've seen this stuff before in better pictures.
The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly.
It doesn't bog down in the bogs, but it's slow-moving just about everyplace else.
Despite its merits, the script fails to escape the silly season that fouls up so many thrillers, that time when the twists merely seem like the narrative equivalents of those violin shrieks on a cheesy score.
There is no psychological depth, no real motivation, no human values to weigh, just characters jerked here and there like puppets in an arbitrary plot.
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