1995 Directed by Arne Glimcher
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Sean Connery Laurence Fishburne Blair Underwood Kate Capshaw Ruby Dee Scarlett Johansson Ed Harris Christopher Murray Daniel J. Travanti Ned Beatty Liz Torres Chris Sarandon Deborah Smith Ford Ashley Holliday Hope Lange Kevin McCarthy Victor Slezak Taral Hicks Lynne Thigpen George Plimpton Brooke Alderson Vitamin C Richard Liberty Joel S. Ehrenkranz Barbara Jean Kane Maurice Jamaal Brown Patrick Maycock Jordan F. Vaughn Francisco Paz Show All…
Justa Causa
The title is also the reason they made the movie. Just 'cause!
Sean Connery gives a heroic performance as the dumbest Harvard professor of all time, just an absolute shit-for-brains duh duh idiot.
Double bill "thriller 90s fort probablement mauvais avec des stars que j'aime qui apparaissent 5 minutes"
Un autre film à problème, autour d'un Noir accusé de meurtre, comme dans A Time to Kill. C'est un moins gros problème, mais quand ton film commence sur une scène d'interrogatoire violente, où on arrache de force une confession à un Noir probablement innocent pour l'envoyer vers la chaise électrique, c'est quand même étrange qui arrive un moment donné dans le film où la brutalité policière n'est jamais vraiment examinée même si elle est représentée. Au moins cette fois Sean Connery fait un beau speech contre la peine de mort.
Le double bill s'est avéré plus cohérent que prévu parce que 1) après une…
Underbaked thriller that finds law professor Sean Connery heading to Florida to help acquit death row inmate Blair Underwood. He teams up with cop Lawrence Fishburne, who arrested Underwood in the first place. Then Ed Harris pops up as a serial killer who probably actually did it. It's based on a novel, and it feels like that: there's lots of peripheral characters that have just a little bit of time that don't offer much, so I suspect there's more detail in the pages—like the fact that Kevin McCarthy plays Connery's father-in-law. JUST CAUSE has all the makings of a fun potboiler, but there's no flair in the execution. Supposedly Connery turned down a role in BRAVEHEART to work on this with his director buddy Arne Glimcher, and it totally feels like that.
'Just Cause' is compelling in spurts, but becomes undone when it starts bending over backwards in an attempt to bamboozle and shock the audience, resulting in goofy revelations and a tedious climax.
Connery was severely miscast in this. I just couldn't buy him as a 61 year old man being married to Kate Capshaw, who is 23 years younger, and having an 11 year old daughter, played by a young Scarlett Johansson.
Ed Harris is the highlight, giving a chilling performance.
Relativ unspektakulärer und launiger Kriminalfilm, der bis auf eine handvoll Szenen selten zu überraschen weiß. Aber der Cast rundum einen charismatischen Sean Connery, einen durchgeknallten Ed Harris und einen fiesen Laurence Fishburne ist klasse und die Handlung konnte mein Interesse zum Glück stets aufrecht erhalten, weshalb ich nie gelangweilt wurde. Im Sumpf des Verbrechens ist zwar kein all zu großer Wurf, weiß jedoch für das, was es ist, zu überzeugen.
1995: Ranked
Just Cause sees a Harvard professor (Sean Connery) lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man (Blair Underwood) condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
Despite the impressive two leads of the cast, a standard yet engaging mystery and some suitably darker and gruesome moments, the film is one that you will have seen many times before and done better, whilst also featuring very cliche dialogue and some over-the-top performances and moments that take away from the grittier nature of the story.
The film plays out in a very familiar and straightforward structure with its fair share of twists and turns as the film progresses. However none of…
This movie isn’t technically good, but if it were a “better” movie it would be a lot worse.
This movie feels like a 80s era thriller, shot in the 90s.
Ed Harris steels the show. He is such an underrated actor in general. Every other actor is just bland. Even Sean Connerys charm doesn´t help.
The score was ok but heavily overproduced.
Typical bad 90s thriller. Liberals shouldn't be easy on black criminals is basically the theme.
Been a very long time since I last watched this, but suddenly really wanted to see it again. It is fun and has aged ok, but it isn't as good as I remember it being all those years ago.
VOD. Best thing in the film was Ed Harris. Whole movie should have centered around his character.
"If that's a confession then my ass is a banjo!"
It gets the feel of South Florida right. As a friend said, 20 miles from any beach Florida becomes Alligators, Armadillos and Rednecks. They get it right.
But the movie gets pretty much everything else wrong.
Porządny thriller, dobrze zagrany (Harris!) z ciekawym twistem. Nie zestarzał się zbytnio i nadal dobrze się go ogląda. Na plus też fajne, południowe klimaty.
A poor mans John Grisham made slightly better by Fishburne and Connery. Gave me the hit of 90s thriller that I was craving and reminded me that I’ve been meaning to rewatch Primal Fear.
The most racist, super predator, pro-Clinton crime bill film of the 90s. Blair Underwood is a black man on death row accused of heinous murder. Connery is trying to get him off due to a forced confession. He even opens the film arguing with George Plimpton about the death penalty, claiming it's unjustly used to punish African Americans.
Connery succeeds but turns out Underwood did it after all, and wants to kill Connery's wife and daughter (Scarlett Johansson). All black men are heinous murderers and the justice system should not be questioned.
Este es uno de esos casos donde los actores sacan adelante toda la película.
La historia es un caso policial bastante convencional con un giro de trama predecible, lo que sumado a un ritmo lento haría que el filme normalmente cayera de inmediato en territorio olvidable; sin embargo, tenemos las actuaciones de Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne y Ed Harris, y eso eleva toda la experiencia. Ver a todas estas estrellas interactuar hace que la película me entretenga mucho. Y a este elenco debo añadir la actuación de una niñita que en el futuro se volvería en toda una estrella: Scarlett Johansson.
De Causa Justa no recordaré tanto la historia, pero sí recordaré a los actores (en especial la loca actuación de Ed Harris). Si les gusta ese elenco actoral, entonces esta es una película que puedo recomendar, pero no por muchas otras razones.
“You’ve got the Trials of Job ahead of you. The Trials of Job!”
***SPOILER ALERT***
To sum it all up, what begins as a legal thriller along the lines of ‘Just Mercy’ (a film which came almost two and a half decades later, I know, but I just couldn’t help but compare since a few scenes in the beginning are so very strikingly similar in both these films) shift gears right in the middle to a psychological thriller akin to ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, and then takes a sharp u-turn towards the final act to end up as ‘Primal Fear’ meets ‘Cape Fear’ instead (the former being another film which came just an year later).
And I liked it. ‘Just Cause’ is a pretty much underrated thriller. It deserves more appreciation.
P. S. I didn’t recognize, until later, the kid who acted as Sean Connery’s daughter.
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