Seeking Justice (2012)
Average Rating: 4.4/10
Reviews Counted: 68
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 51
Seeking Justice is nothing more than a typical potboiler with another phoned-in performance by Nicolas Cage.
Average Rating: 4.7/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 6 | Rotten: 13
Seeking Justice is nothing more than a typical potboiler with another phoned-in performance by Nicolas Cage.
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A happily married family man's quiet life is turned upside-down when his wife is brutally attacked one night while leaving work. The husband unwittingly pulls himself into a dangerous underground vigilante operation after agreeing to an intriguing offer for a stranger to exact vengeance on is wife's attacker. While continuing to protect his wife from the truth, he quickly discovers that his quest for justice could lead to frightening and deadly consequences. -- (C) Anchor Bay
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Cast
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Nicolas Cage
Will Gerard -
January Jones
Laura Gerard -
Guy Pearce
Simon -
Harold Perrineau Jr.
Jimmy -
Jennifer Carpenter
Trudy -
IronE Singleton
Scar -
Wayne Pére
Cancer -
Xander Berkeley
Lieutenant Durgan -
Marcus Lyle Brown
Detective Green -
Dikran Tulaine
Sideburns -
Joe Chrest
Detective Rudeski -
Demetrius Bridges
Edwin -
Jason Davis
Alan March -
Brett Gentile
Bourdette -
Renwick Dwight Scott
Kid 1 -
Joe Gelini
Charlie -
Alex Van
Hodge (Rapist) -
Sharon Landry
Doctor -
Asif Taj
Oncology Dept. Doctor -
Bernard "Bunchy" Johnson
Oncology Dept. Guard -
Donna DuPlantier
Jimmy's Girlfriend -
John McConnell
Liquor Store Clerk -
J.D. Evermore
Man in Elevator -
Mike Pniewski
Gibbs -
Cullen Moss
Jones -
Brett Rice
Long -
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Rey Hernandez
Instructor -
Dave Jensen
Gas Station Attendant -
Thomas Hyde
Hotel Valet -
Maureen Brennan
Newspaper Woman -
Douglas M. Griffin
Resident -
Rachel Dupard
Student -
Dale Rhodes
AAA Mechanic -
Kenneth Brown Jr.
Detective Richards -
Kathleen Wilhoite
Mother -
Matthew Posey
Rabbit -
Juan Pardo
Max -
Joseph Ratliff
Elephant Trainer -
Raymond Hebert
2nd Cop -
Danny O'Flaherty
Singer at Wake -
Joseph Boudreaux
Singer in Party Scene -
Seth Harden
Boy -
Casey Bundick
Security Guard -
John Montes
Conductor -
J. Omar Castro
Rabbit #2 -
Terrence Rosemore
Bartender -
Veronica Musgrove
Reporter -
Michael Hill
Reporter #2
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All Critics (70) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (51) | DVD (5)
A dumb-dumb variant on the Death Wish vigilante justice genre.
Top Critic[Cage] acquits himself well enough in this otherwise rudimentary thriller from deliriously unsubtle director Roger Donaldson.
It's a perfectly palatable and even engaging thriller, albeit one requiring several leaps of faith and/or disengagement with reality.
Donaldson ... seems to have lost all talent for pacing.
[Cage] shouldn't do any more movies in which his character signals his acceptance of a Faustian bargain by buying two candy bars.
It's refreshing to see Nicolas Cage, non-histrionic and sort of subtle, in a halfway clever piece of indie pulp about a teacher who enlists a cult of vigilantes to kill the man who raped his wife.
Despite growing increasingly preposterous as the minutes tick by, Roger Donaldson's Seeking Justice is still at the high-end of star Nicholas Cage's recent output.
...a hopelessly uneven thriller that just isn't able to live up to its seemingly can't-miss premise...
There is a strange and sometimes wondrous intensity in Cage's performances in these films; sometimes his madness is enough to elevate a film - like Werner Herzog's The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans - to a kind of trashy sublimity.
The movie opens with an embarrassingly obvious scene of exposition and ends in an abandoned mall with a laborious explanation by a talking killer and further villainous actions cleared up by a trusting local detective who can sweep things under the rug.
Not much better than the dreck Nic Cage has been shoveling at us in recent years - a tad smarter, perhaps. But as in life, he keeps getting up off the mat and coming back for more, even if much of his audience isn't returning the favor.
As it stands, veteran director Roger Donaldson and writers Todd Hickey and Robert Tannen instead turn Seeking Justice into a lengthy chase movie that grows ever more ludicrous.
Ah, Nicolas Cage, you donkey- faced old ham. When did you finally give up on acting and abandon yourself totally to self-parody?
There needs to be a shot of [Cage] raising his fists looking up to the sky screaming 'JUSTIIIIIIICE!' as the camera pulls up, but the movie doesn't go there.
'Death Wish' goes the corporate route in this silly action-thriller that's nonetheless leagues beyond Nicolas Cage's usual fare.
A bland revenge thriller with the Cage's blandest star turn since he sleepwalked through Bangkok Dangerous.
Nicolas Cage plays the regular man protagonist with surprising ease, dialing down the nutty affectations and keeping you engaged.
The only thing you'll be wondering during this inert alleged thriller is where it all went wrong.
This vigilante potboiler jettisons any sense of realistic goodwill with viewers by detouring into a series of silly plot twists and half-cocked conspiracy theories.
An enjoyably loopy genre exercise. Connoisseurs of the Nic will need no further recommendation.
If you are a hard core Nic Cage fan this won't kill ya, but avoiding it may make you stronger.
An agonizingly banal exercise in generic filmmaking makes even the most run-of-the-mill made-for-TV potboiler seem like a Charlie Kaufman head-spinner by comparison.
Audience Reviews for Seeking Justice
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- Simon: The hungry rabbit jumps.
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- Simon: We're just a few citizens seeking justice.
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- Laura Gerard: We should go to the cops... we tell them everything.
- Will Gerard: Some of them are cops.
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Foreign Titles
- Seeking Justice (DE)
- Justice (UK)
