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Just Cause you round up a phenomenal cast, that doesn't mean you have everything you need for a solid legal thriller -- and this film is forgettable proof.
All Critics (29) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (22) | DVD (2)
In Connery it has a hero who is inescapably appealing. Jun 18, 2002 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
In Connery it has a hero who is inescapably appealing.
Mick LaSalle
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. Apr 12, 2002 | Full Review…
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.
Rick Groen
It doesn't bog down in the bogs, but it's slow-moving just about everyplace else. Feb 13, 2001 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It doesn't bog down in the bogs, but it's slow-moving just about everyplace else.
Peter Rainer
It's brutal, horribly manipulative, and we've seen this stuff before in better pictures. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
It's brutal, horribly manipulative, and we've seen this stuff before in better pictures.
Desson Thomson
The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly.
Hal Hinson
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. Jan 1, 2000 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
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.
Roger Ebert
Connery is sadly lacking in vigour, and the script rarely sparkles. But the climax is cruelly effective. Dec 13, 2017 | Full Review…
Connery is sadly lacking in vigour, and the script rarely sparkles. But the climax is cruelly effective.
Quentin Curtis
...it's certainly impossible not to get a kick out of any film in which Sean Connery delivers the following line: "If that's a confession then my ass is a banjo!" Aug 15, 2016 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
...it's certainly impossible not to get a kick out of any film in which Sean Connery delivers the following line: "If that's a confession then my ass is a banjo!"
David Nusair
Good crime flick with strength in casting of Sean Connery. Feb 22, 2008 | Rating: 3/5
Good crime flick with strength in casting of Sean Connery.
Steve Crum
Connery is as steady as always....great twists Mar 11, 2005 | Rating: 3/5
Connery is as steady as always....great twists
Clint Morris
Forgettable and less than thrilling. Dec 13, 2004 | Rating: 2/5
Forgettable and less than thrilling.
Dan Lybarger
Ridiculous from start to finish. Connery, Harris, and Fishburne couldn't have wasted their time in a less productive fashion. Jul 25, 2002 | Rating: 0/5
Ridiculous from start to finish. Connery, Harris, and Fishburne couldn't have wasted their time in a less productive fashion.
Chuck Rudolph
Go to any Walgreens across the nation and every month there's a new collection of mystery thrillers, usually by the same collection of authors, who churn out books like hamburgers: this film plays like those books read. A great cast and superior production values can't hide a factory produced script.
Super Reviewer
Buried deep in the Florida Everglades is a secret that can save an innocent man or let a killer kill again. Good movie. The movie didn't really surprise me that much and I have seen better but still I thought it was well made. It really seem like Sean Connery nail his part and Laurence Fishburne did allright too as a supporting actor. The year is 1986. In Ochopee, Florida, 11-year-old Joanie Shriver is kidnapped, raped, and murdered. Bobby Earl Ferguson is arrested by officers Tanny Brown and J. T. Wilcox, who proceed to beat Bobby into confessing to the murder. Bobby is placed on trial, where Bobby's defense attorney McNair puts up a lousy defense for Bobby, and Bobby is sentenced to be executed. Now, eight years later, Bobby hands a letter to his grandmother Evangeline and asks Evangeline to go to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to hire Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong to clear Bobby's name. At Harvard, Paul is attacking capital punishment in a campus debate, when Evangeline arrives and hands the letter to Paul. Paul goes home, where his wife Laurie is throwing a birthday party for their young daughter Katey. Laurie reads the letter and she encourages Paul to take the case, even though he hasn't practiced law in 25 years. Paul, Laurie, and Katey head to Florida, where Paul meets Bobby in the prison. Bobby tells Paul his side of the story and what Tanny and Wilcox did. Paul begins to believe that Bobby was railroaded. Bobby tells Paul to speak to Blair Sullivan, a man who is also on death row. Blair gives Paul some clues that could prove Bobby's innocence and Blair's own guilt. But in the process of trying to clear Bobby, Paul learns some disturbing truths about Bobby, putting Paul and his family in a fight for their lives.
Damn it, this was like "To Kill A Mockingbird" with the most predictable and silliest twisted ending. (Oops! I hope that ain't a spoiler. And if it is, I can only hope that you're not intelligent enough to predict it. But even a kid can tell that 2 + 2 = 4, and you don't need to be a genius for that. Anyway, if it did work as a spoiler for you, and thereby reduced the movie's entertainment value for you, I honestly plead your pardon.) But that wasn't good enough for them. So they put the characters through car chasing scenes followed by a fight. The fighting sequence only made it worse. Exactly as predicted, the character who is supposedly shot dead, returns in a typical filmy way at the nick of time to beat the villain. I was expecting some unique and interesting courtroom drama, but I guess I was asking for too much. This movie was a big time disappointment for me. And if you haven't seen this movie as yet, I hope I've provided enough just causes that will lead you to the conclusion that you better avoid this Just Cause. P.S.: The face of the sweet, young girl playing Katie Armstrong looked familiar, but I'd no idea whatsoever that it was Scarlett Johansson until I found it in the credits.
One of the best thrillers of the nineties decade that ranks with Seven and The Silence of the Lambs. A strong, brilliant and exhilarating physiological thriller. It's chilling, absorbing, razor-sharp and incredibly unpredictable. An intense, remarkable and adrenaline-pumping thrill-machine. A riveting all-star cast. Sean Connery and Laurence Fishburne are electrifying. Blair Underwood is terrific. Ed Harris is unforgettably chilling and riveting.
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