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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
Reviews for Just Cause
Despite its tendency to tread well-traveled roads, Just Cause is filmed with enough energy and craft that, for the majority of its one-hundred minute running time, it's reasonably entertaining.
It's a rich, humid mix of race, murder, and mystery that works well, even if it doesn't work perfectly.
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.
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