The Juror
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Movie Reviews of The Juror
Movie Review: WATCHABLE SUSPENSE, WITH A LOOONG TAIL-END
Summary: 3 Stars
This high-profile star vehicle has decent suspense, unlike what reviews here will have believe, but little to recommend besides the lead performances -- Demi Moore is great (perhaps one of her best roles) and Alec Baldwin is very creepy as a three-dimensional villain. After the usual Grishamesque legal session though, the movie gets somewhat needlessly protracted with Baldwin's character brutally murdering Moore's doctor friend, which begins a spree of semi-credible acts (including a supposed mafia boss being killed along with his three bodyguards, in broad daylight, in a public park. Yeah!) Until the mildly doozy finale in Guatemala, of all places.
Overall, definitely a one-time watchable film, but you may want to think twice before buying and owning it.
Movie Review: b-o-r-i-n-g
Summary: 3 Stars
I wanted to like this movie, but it just dragged on and on. Only the ending saved it from complete mundanity. And Joseph Gordon-Levitt needed a haircut too !Movie Review: Faugh! The distaste is still in my mouth...
Summary: 1 Stars
Others have summarized the plot; now I shall summarize the motifs... After a thoroughly schlocky opening sequence - murders portrayed with the usual tastelessness of so-called thriller cinema - we have the usual set up of "the ordinary 90s family" (which hardly has enough detail to cover the fact that it's thoroughly formulaic). Once we have the picture in place of a well-intentioned mother and her cheerful and 90s-hip son, the film quickly decides that the audience is sufficiently prepared to be hounded, oppressed, and tortured along with the protagonists. Really! How much fun does this sound? The audience is forced to endure impossibly powerful and menacing Supervillain Alec Baldwin for the next hour and a half of misery. I suppose there are lots of viewers who will enjoy commiserating with poor Demi Moore and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, but isn't it very clear that they both deserve much better fates (and roles) than this schlock? This is a real waste of Hollywood resources. And just how credible is the whole suit-wearing Mafia theme these days, anyway? Hollywood just keeps building on its own myths and doesn't care one whit about credibility or reality. In the process, I wonder just how many people are induced into paranoid fears as a result of this kind of drivel being dished out, film after film after film. It seems that the target audience is anyone who, like Demi Moore at the start of the film, just wants some excitement in their dull lives. But I suspect that this sort of film also presents women, teens, possibly others who feel insecure & frightened, with an extremely skewed image of life which magnifies their anxieties about a patriarchal world. Why couldn't it be done with some realism, a bit of taste, and more dignity? Instead, just as in slasher films, the supervillain is nearly omnipotent, and the only pathetic solution in such melodrama is (big surprise!!) that the heroine has to kill him off herself, since as everyone in Hollywood keeps telling us, there is no law in America except for the vigilante violence of those who have been pushed too far. Some may see such violence as a helpful step for women's vicarious empowerment; but such gestures seem to me pretty feeble when relegated to this kind of ridiculous scenario. There's no longer anything progressive in showing a woman turn violent in a ridiculously staged and antificial thriller scenario. It's time Hollywood and its patrons grew up a bit and stopped this sort of distracting drivel in favor of things that tell it as it really is. Whatever kernel of truth lies in this scenario should be presented realistically rather than manipulatively exaggerated; since to do so with such themes is to render them ludicrous, in which case this sort of film acts as a red herring for whatever cause people may try to attribute to it. Clearly, these filmmakers were not bold enough to do anything except make a lurid and artificial thriller - one which purportedly sympathizes with the oppressed but, given the amount of screentime devoted to it, may actually at the same time be capitalizing on the macho-villain's grandstanding antics by appealing to sadistic and power-hungry fantasies in some male viewers!!!Movie Review: Lacks credibility, totally unreal
Summary: 1 Stars
This movie about a mafia trial and an attempt to intimidate a juror (Demi Moore) into delivering a not guilty verdict totally lacks credibility and is unreal. In a trial of this nature in real life, surely the jury would be sequestrated (remember the O J Simpson trial?) therefore the situation experienced by Demi Moore would never arise. This sums up my case.Movie Review: Pointless and awful.
Summary: 1 Stars
The Juror starring Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin looked like such an entertaining thriller but this movie is just so stupid. I couldn't believe how dumb the plot and ending was. And who the hell what's to see Anne Heche naked? not me! One of the worst movies I have ever seen, use this one as a coaster.