rating:
(out of
4 stars)United States; 1995
Directed by Arne Glimcher; produced by Arne Glimcher, Steve Perry, Lee Rich; screenplay by Jeb Stuart, Peter Stone
Starring Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris, Scarlett Johansson, Ned Beatty
Below you will find a temporary review for this film. The real (better, more complete) review will be online very soon.
Sean Connery is a very good actor but that doesn't always mean his movies
are good. 'Just Cause' starts pretty good. Sean Connery is a professor in
law, after being a lawyer a long time ago. After having a debate a black
woman tells him about her son, on death row while he is innocent. She asks
for his help and of course he will help. Bobby Earl tells him about how his
confession was beaten out of him by Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne), the
local sheriff. He is on death row for raping and killing a little girl and
another man on death row, played by Ed Harris, says he killed that girl and
he proves that. Bobby Earl has a case to get out, and unfortunately for the
movie that is where the good part ends.
I will not reveal what happens exactly but I can say that plot twists arrive
every 5 minutes from there. They are stupid and actually very predictable.
The bad guy suddenly might be a good guy and the good guy might be not that
good. The wife of the professor Sean Connery has also an 'important' role in
the plot, of course, and we must not forget his young daughter. Sean Connery
is nice, this film is not.