Just Cause

"[It] starts out strong and then, boy, does it jump the rails (...) 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 (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)" 

"[It] manages to be a notch above most of the mystery fare we've seen lately. It's a rich, humid mix of race, murder, and mystery that works well, even if it doesn't work perfectly (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" 

"[It] has been directed so antiseptically that it lacks all sense of lifelike detail. Despite good looks and some ostentatious technical polish, it offers a textbook example of direction (...) that's utterly out of sync with its subject matter" 

"[It] ambles along for more than an hour as a perfectly respectable mystery procedural (...) But then all hell breaks loose, with one unconvincing twist after another being thrown at the audience" 

"For a story with so much going for it (...) 'Just Cause' is just not taut and thrilling enough (...) Connery, the old pro, seems exhausted by all he’s required to do (...) Poor man." 

"The picture builds to an action-packed climax but, both in terms of story and theme, it never really comes to a satisfying resolution. The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly."