Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780790737584 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0790737582 Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Warner Home Video Release Date: October 13, 1998 Running Time: 102 minutes Sales Rank: 12794 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1995
Amazon.com: Just Cause is a film that relies on phony plot twists and steals openly from any other thriller that it can remember. If there was a drinking game requiring players to drink during every cinematic 'homage,' you'd be tanked after Just Cause's first 45 minutes. Take one case of racial injustice, place it in an exotic, exquisitely photographed location (the Florida Everglades), and bring in an outsider, played by a bankable star, to save the day. Make sure nothing appears as it seems. Add a couple of plot twists, some over-the-top character actors (Ed Harris, shamelessly riffing on Hannibal Lecter), stir, and serve. The big name in this case is Sean Connery, who plays a Harvard law professor summoned to the swamps by an apparently innocent death row inmate (Blair Underwood), who swears he didn't rape and kill that 11-year-old girl. He says he confessed because maverick psycho-cop Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) made him play a solo game of Russian roulette. He says his Serial-killer neighbor on death row (Harris) committed the crime. Connery buys it, the audience buys it, and how could they not? Director Arne Glimcher (who made the lackluster Mambo Kings) coerces everyone with simplistic plot manipulations. Characters are given no depth, and the actors are pawns moved about like pieces on a Clue gameboard. --Dave McCoy
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This is a spell-binding movie - partially filmed at Babcock Farms in Punta Gorda, FL. I have shared the movie with family and friends and they all love it! Great twists and suspense.
Rating: - Great movie
Just when you thought, the story line twist and turns, and takes you with it.
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The movie starts off nicely but ends up to be ridiculous and unconvincing. The actors are basically wasted. The only good thing about this film is James Newton Howard's fine score.
Rating: - Another lost cause for Connery
Just Cause is one of those films that at first makes you wonder quite why it was so heavily slated when it came out - nothing special but competent enough and with an excellent supporting performance from Ed Harris. Then you hit the last third and everything starts to get increasingly silly until you've got a killer with a flashlight strapped to his forehead threatening to fillet Sean Connery's wife (a typically mannered and unconvincing Kate Capshaw) and kid (a very young Scarlet Johannsen) in an alligator skinner's shack. The kind of movie that's probably best seen on a plane, and even then only once.
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