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Just Cause (Widescreen)

Sean Connery (Actor), Laurence Fishburne (Actor) | Rated: R (Restricted) | Format: DVD
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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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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3.0 out of 5 stars No thrill thriller July 17 2004
By xyz
Format:VHS Tape
A flat by-the-numbers who-do-it kind of mystery movie. The actors gave fine performances, given the script they had to work with. But the story lacks intrigues. Characters are not memorable. The action sequences are perfunctory. The major mystery this movie offers is why apparently the director was OK with all these shortcomings.

Don't bother to try to guess ahead of the movie, as many would like to do with a mystery. This movie just isn't worth your effort. Otherwise in the end you might have the frustrating feeling that you've given the movie more thought than the filmmakers appeared to have done.

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1.0 out of 5 stars just a waste of time cause it is Nov 14 2003
By Michael Bolts
Format:VHS Tape
you'd think that Laurence and Seanny would be more careful on what they do know a days., though Fishburne 4 years later did The Matrix, that helped out, but otherwise this is a stink pot thriller with bad acting. Blair Underwood is the killer in this pic and he gets killed by an alligator, hmmmmm and also shot. theres also a skinheaded Ed Harris who's really gay. dont be fooled, I wasnt. its pure ...garbage
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1.0 out of 5 stars Do not rent this movie Sep 7 2003
By Thomas A. Olafson
Format:VHS Tape
One of the worst movies(with a budget)which I've ever seen. The movie is all over the place for fear of offending any segment of the viewing audience. It's supposedly anti-death penalty and police brutality, and yet Sean Connery's character, a crusading Harvard Law School professor and death penalty opponent, winds up siding with a policeman who sticks a .38 in a murder suspect's mouth and plays Russian roulette with it. The death row inmate, played by L.A. Law's Blair Underwood, is freed, only to be eaten by an alligator. The plot is based on a coincidence stemming from Connery's character's marriage to Kate Capshaw's character which is wildly improbable. The best thing about "Just Cause" is Ed Harris' portrayal of a psychotic death row inmate, although even that is a bit over-the-top.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Movie!
As mentioned in the other reviews, the movie starts out very slow and very predictable. It's only in the last 40min where things start to get interesting. Definitely worth getting.
Published on Aug 29 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars What Evil Lurks
There's more than the alligators lurking in the swamplands of the Everglades in this thriller. It's hard to know who to trust as a Harvard law proffessor(Sean Connery) who hasn't... Read more
Published on Nov 4 2002 by L. Shirley
5.0 out of 5 stars Evil in the Everglades
Sean Connery stars as Harvard law professor Paul Armstrong in this cunning and twisting story of primeval evil and revenge. Read more
Published on May 28 2002 by Mel Odom
5.0 out of 5 stars I DIDN'T EXPECT THIS TO BE GREAT..AND IT REALLY IS!!
I remember the night I first watched this movie. I rented it at the Video Shop, without much enthusiasm & at the insistence of my roommate. Read more
Published on Jan 13 2002 by Carla J. Schultz
5.0 out of 5 stars If you dont like this your in the wrong genra
Every aspect of this entailed thriller is very well made. This is not your run-of-the-mill Hitchcock ripof, this is a murder mystery, that has an originality you rarely see... Read more
Published on Sep 6 2001 by Daniel J. Brown
4.0 out of 5 stars Edge of your seat
I've seen better from Sean Connery, and Blair Underwood needs to stick with soap operas. Ed Harris was as good as always. Read more
Published on Jun 30 2001 by rgarner
3.0 out of 5 stars A Team of Great Actors Try.. Yet Ultimately Fail.
Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburn, Blair Underwood, Kate Capshaw and Ed Harris make the Best of Bad Material in "Just Cause", a Thriller that Too closely resembles a whole bunch of... Read more
Published on May 9 2001 by Bradley Tobin
2.0 out of 5 stars Baby Your Love. . .

JUST CAUSE
Sean Connery, Blair Underwood, Lawrence Fishburne, Ed Harris, 1995

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A black man (Underwood) is put in jail for a crime he says he did not... Read more

Published on Feb 11 2001 by Randall Stevens
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Acting + Good Suspense = Good Movie
The acting in this movie was superp. Ed Harris showed his versatility as the convicted serial killer on death row. Read more
Published on Jun 24 1999
4.0 out of 5 stars A triple-twister!
Our favorite twist-plot movie. Gotta see it! You think you figured it out and... SURPRISE...you didn't. A bit gory. Sean Connery is captivating!
Published on Feb 22 1999 by Cyndi
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