After his wife is assaulted, a husband enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score.
Nicolas Cage
Will Gerard
January Jones
Laura Gerard
Guy Pearce
Simon
Harold Perrineau
Jimmy
Jennifer Carpenter
Trudy
Xander Berkeley
Lieutenant Durgan
Irone Singleton
Scar
David Jensen
Gas Attendant
Joe Chrest
Detective Rudeski
Donna DuPlantier
Gina
Alexander Asefa
Barbeque Friend
Wayne Pére
Cancer
Marcus Lyle Brown
Detective Green
Dikran Tulaine
Sideburns
Demetrius Bridges
Edwin
Bernard Johnson
Oncology Dept. Guard
Jason Davis
Alan Marsh
Brett Gentile
Bourdette
Alex Van
Hodge
Mike Pniewski
Gibbs
Cullen Moss
Jones
Brett Rice
Long
Sharon Landry
Doctor
Asif Taj
Oncologist
Donna DuPlantier
Jimmy's Girlfriend
John McConnell
Liquor Store Clerk
Anthony Michael Frederick
Cop
Rey Hernandez
Instructor
Thomas Tah Hyde III
Valet
Dane Rhodes
AAA Mechanic
Kenneth Brown Jr.
Detective Richards
Kathleen Wilhoite
Mother
Matthew Posey
Rabbit
J. Omar Castro
Rabbit #2
Renwick D. Scott II
Kid
J.D. Evermore
Man in Elevator
Maureen Brennan
Newspaper Woman
Douglas M. Griffin
Resident
Rachel Dupard
Student
Juan Pardo
Max
Daniel Rhyder
Singer at Wake
Terence Rosemore
Bartender
Veronica Mosgrove
Reporter
Michael Dennis Hill
Reporter #2
Director
Roger Donaldson
Screenplay, Story
Robert Tannen
Story
Todd Hickey
May 16, 2015
6
It's not what a lawyer tells me I must do, but it's what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
After his wife (January Jones) is brutally raped, New Orleans teacher Will Gerard (Nic Cage) gets involved with a shadowy vigilante group run by a man called Simon (Guy Pearce). A favour for a favour to get justice seems viable, but all is not as it seems...
To be frank it's just another in a long line of vigilante thrillers that get trundled out every other year. Rarely does one, certainly in the more modern era of film making, have something viable to say, to challenge the thought process of the viewers. Justice (AKA: Seeking Justice) starts off very promising, grabbing the attention whilst having an atmospheric texture about it. Sadly come the mid-point things just get daft (yet Cage stays ultra serious throughout) and in spite of the makers trying to add in some twisty thriller conventions, all the potential (and promise) for thought provoking depth has long since gone.
That said, as an intrigue based drama it's a decent enough watch, with director Roger Donaldson (No Way Out/Thirteen Days) adept in the staging of suspenseful sequences. Yet the lack of kinetic action is sorely felt, the over all feeling being one that Donaldson and crew were not quite sure which way to take the picture. Should we keep things shadowy and suggestive? Or should we have live wire chases and dastardly peril? Justice only winds up as an uneven blend of ideas. While wasting Xander Berkeley and the New Orleans locations is a crime in itself.
Not bad exactly, above average in fact, but just forgettable and another wasted opportunity to add meat to a hot topic in film form. 6/10
Status:
Released
Original Language:
English
Budget:
$17,000,000.00
Revenue:
$14,089,528.00