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Just Cause

1995

Arne Glimcher

Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Ed Harris, Kate Capshaw ...

5.9

8,642

Mystery. Thriller. Drama A brutal murder is committed in the Florida Everglades. Eight years later, a principled Harvard law professor tries to save the convicted man on Death Row who swears he's innocent of that crime. For the small-town detective who investigated the killing, however, there's no question he caught the right man--and no last-minute intervention is going to keep that cold-blooded killer out of the electric chair. Someone is the mastermind of a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"It's brutal, horribly manipulative, and we've seen this stuff before in better pictures."	NEG
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"[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)"	NEG
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"Breaking the golden rule of thrillers - don't let the audience guess the ending from 15 minutes in - this just becomes largely pointless (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"[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)"	POS
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[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"	NEG
United Kingdom	Time Out	"There's a Hollywood dictum about not going on the floor until you've fixed the script, but it's obviously news to the makers of this picture."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[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"	NEU
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"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."	NEG
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"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."	NEG

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