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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780790740799
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0790740796
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 22, 1999
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 20684
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 17, 1995
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Great movie
Just when you thought, the story line twist and turns, and takes you with it.
Rating:  - Just Cause Review
The movie starts off nicely but ends up to be ridiculous and unconvincing. The actors are basically wasted. The only good thing about this film is James Newton Howard's fine score.
Rating: - Another lost cause for Connery
Just Cause is one of those films that at first makes you wonder quite why it was so heavily slated when it came out - nothing special but competent enough and with an excellent supporting performance from Ed Harris. Then you hit the last third and everything starts to get increasingly silly until you've got a killer with a flashlight strapped to his forehead threatening to fillet Sean Connery's wife (a typically mannered and unconvincing Kate Capshaw) and kid (a very young Scarlet Johannsen) in an ... Read More
Rating: - Just Cause Review
This is a great movie. There are suspense and drama and a couple of good twists. There are some excellent performances, as well. I won't say more, as I don't want to ruin the surprises. I've seen it before and wanted to own it. Now to review the purchase experience: When I first received the movie, the holder on the inside of the case, which holds the DVD in place was broken and had allowed the disk to move around in shipment and get scratched. I returned it, at Amazon's expense, and promptly ... Read More
Rating:  - It begins with a formula for predictability, but then shifts into an unpredictable thriller
This movie has all the components of a formulaic tale about a black man unjustly arrested for the murder of a young white girl. A college educated black man in a small town in Florida is arrested when a young white girl is raped and brutally murdered. The local sheriff and his deputy beat him for 22 hours and extort a confession out of him. The only unusual difference is that while the deputy is white, the sheriff is black.
Sean Connery plays a Harvard Law professor who is adamantly opposed ... Read More
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