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Summary: terrible movie
Review: I'm glad I did not waste the money to buy this! I rented it tonight, liked most of the actors...but it fell way short early in the movie. The acting was pretty good, but the story is stupid and unrealistic and it makes you hate the actors (shoot the messenger, so to speak). Why not sue hammer manufacturers, afterall, people are killed with hammers all the time..how about bathtub manufacturers for making them so deep you could drown? It all seems to be about the big, evil, terrible, conglomerate corporation (who just happens to employ hundreds or thousands of people). Why do these directors/writers/actors or whoever have to get political?---it is spoiling the movies for me at a dramatic rate!
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Summary: Bias film that waste the good acting of Weisz and Hackman.
Review: Low grade John Grisham drama does not practice what its preaches by skirting the issues its trying to convey and goes for the throat in its bias views about gun responsibility. Do we need some kind of moratorium for gun responsibility? In my opinion yes but we do not need a movie that skirts the issues raised by going on a self effacing crusade of judge and jury with out hearing all the facts from both sides of the case. Besides all of that, the actors in this movie do their jobs by giving very good performances despite the hack job of the script they had to work with. Gene Hackman and Rachel Weisz are the standouts in this film and they give the best performances in an all star cast that includes the great Dustin Hoffman, and the charming John Cusack. They are the reasons to sit thou this movie, even when you are moaning at the script self righteousness, and bias smug view.
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Summary: Runaway Jury
Review: I am from Mississippi and a huge John Grisham fan, but this movie/book is a huge disappointment. It is the sad epitomy of Mississippi jurys making poor poor decicesions. Don't take my word for it, MS was ranked poorest in jury decisions in the lawyers nationwide journal. Runaway Jury goes on to make the gun companies the enemy in the current violence of America. The movie incorrectly portrays the gun companies as evil businesses that enable criminals to buy guns. The only people in a legitimate business that can even be entertained as enabling criminals to obtain guns are the actual gun dealers. While I strongly disagree with the point of view expressed in this movie, it is actually somewhat entertaining, althoughh very Hollywoodized. Watch the movie, just don't take it to heart.
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Summary: Good thriller...faulty premise
Review: The book that this movie is based on is one of Grisham's better books. For some reason they decided to change the movie's premise from suing tobacco companies to suing a gun company. In the book, the suit for the tobacco company makes sense. In the movie, there is never a real reason established as to why the gun manufacturer should be sued. If they'd left it alone, it would have made this movie perfect. Since they didn't for whatever reason, it hurts the storyline. The actors are great, the story is tense, the ending has an incredible plot-twist that even the book didn't have...but you just can't get past the fact that it doesn't make any sense for this case to go to court in the first place. I enjoyed this movie because I'm a big fan of John Cusack's films and because I loved John Grisham's book. Unfortunately, there are just too many flaws in this film to look beyond them. Definitely better than "The Chamber", but not as good as "The Client".
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Summary: Four stars for four stars. Yeah ,there is an anti-gun
Review: message here but get beyond that, it has very little to do with the movie & certainly won't convert anyone. The big story is you have two giants, of the industry, Dusrin Hoffman & Gene Hackman together. Their seven minute confrontation in the men's room is worth the price of the dvd. John Cusack & Rachel Weisz are also very good & make an attractive couple you can root for. If you can suspend your incredulity on some points you have a very entertaining movie with good acting all around. Isn't that the whole point?
The beauty of the dvd is the after movie commentary by Hoffman & Hackman alone & together talking about the classic scene with just the two of them earlier noted, plus scenes that were cut from the movie. These scenes revealed motives of characters that weren't so obvious in the final cut. For some reason the director (?) wanted the movie to come in at less than two hours. They almost made it at 2:02. It was poor editing nontheless. When you have talent like Hoffman & Hackman, let them exercise those acting muscles.
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Summary: sue the fastfood chain for making them too fat?!
Review: give me a break! all the performances in this film were great enough. only the premise, suing the gun maker was ridiculous. i don't want to talk about the 2nd amendment or any amendment, i just want to tell you guys out there that the congress finally got some wits to pass a law that will ban any lawsuits from the ugly fat americans, the worst litterers that have made the once beautiful and clean america look like the third world junkyard now. shooting guns or dumping all the left over with all the fastfood wrappers and containers out of your car, to let out your fury by using gun to shoot people is actually no worse than throw out all of your fastfood aftermath out of your car. that's the only after thought i got from this funny premise but not-so-bad movie.
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Summary: Great entertainment!
Review: Please don't forget that this is entertainment. Too many reviewers try to read more into the movie than is intended. This is not an anti-gun message from Hollywood, it is a movie, folks - and far superior to the so-called 'Reality Shows' being foisted upon us by the television networks. Hackman is his usual superb self, playing a nasty villain, and his talent is matched by his pal Dusty - the scene in the mens' room is a highlight. I watched this on DVD, devoured every second of the special features, and promptly watched the movie again the following night. Cusack is excellent in his role, but Rachel Weisz nearly steals the show. This will certainly keep you guessing - I'm adding it to my top 10 list.
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Summary: Forget about it.
Review: Dumb and unrealistic look at the law and its injustices takes a detour at the weird when it involves high tech ways to spy on juries. Only Rachel Weisz, and Gene Hackman do well with the little they are giving, and the rest of the movie falls behind because its not as good as their performances which in fact the movie did not deserve. I suggest you see it for the good acting from Gene Hackman and Rachel Weisz because other than them, there is nothing here to really see.
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Summary: You'd better run away alright!!!
Review: Run away from this dvd as fast as you can, because it will put you to sleep, and make you wish you hadn't wasted 2 hours over something so mundane... I couldn't watch this all the way thru straight. I had to stop it sever times and take a break from the boredom. 1st of all it is soooo farfetched. 2nd of all I think Hackman shows in this film that he's played one bad guy too many, by his lack of perfomrance, he needs to try some other role. Hackman's bad guy acting in this film would be more suitable in a James Bond film, petting a white can, while talking about taking over the world. In any case the lead guy is boring, and come on now hidden cameras set upo everywhere to select a jurer? And 20 people at evil Hackman's service night and day. This is so unbelievable, not even an artistic film. Don't waste your time. Only the 1st two minutes of the film is exciting, and it's downhill, the rest of the way. Omly for Hackman diehard fans who want to see him hige an uninspired performance, playing his millionth roll as an evil genious gone over the top.
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Summary: unrelaistic, boring, and far fetched Uninspired performances
Review: What do you expect from a bad script, well it inspires bad performances... Slow paced film, never picks up the pace... I couldn't watch this all the way thru straight. I had to stop it sever times and take a break from the boredom. 1st of all it is soooo farfetched. 2nd of all I think Hackman shows in this film that he's played one bad guy too many, by his lack of perfomrance, he needs to try some other role. Hackman's bad guy acting in this film would be more suitable in a James Bond film, petting a white can, while talking about taking over the world. In any case the lead guy is boring, and come on now hidden cameras set upo everywhere to select a jurer? And 20 people at evil Hackman's service night and day. This is so unbelievable, not even an artistic film. Don't waste your time. Only the 1st two minutes of the film is exciting, and it's downhill, the rest of the way. Omly for Hackman diehard fans who want to see him hige an uninspired performance, playing his millionth roll as an evil genious gone over the top.
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