| Warner Bros. | Release Date: February 17, 1995 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Positive:
9
Mixed:
19
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews
It's an exploitation B-flick with a grade-A cast. [17 Mar 1995, p.5G]
The plot falls with a thud, but the movie is surprisingly involving owing to performances by Connery, who is always an unfaltering standard of honesty and truth; by Fishburne, who has to flip-flop his meanness for frustrated indignation in the end; and by Harris, who actually seethes so hard the veins stand out on his bald skull.
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Neither conveying the flavor of the swampy South nor juicing the story's murky undercurrents with compositional correlatives, Glimcher's framings and pacings are disappointingly flat, coagulating finally in a batch of cliched action gumbo. [13 Feb 1995]
Just Cause is a textbook example of one rewrite too many. [17 Feb 1995, p.38]
Just Cause might better have been called "Without a Cause." Or "Without a
Clue." [17 Feb 1995, p.C2]
Ultimately, Just Cause is just middling. And that's a shame because, for
two blistering acts, it promises to be a suspense thriller worthy of the
name. [17 Feb 1995]
Although the first hour builds effective suspense, the story sags into a warmed-over combination of The Silence of the Lambs and both versions of Cape Fear, and the violent climax looks like it was shot in an Everglades theme park. [17 Feb 1995, p.13]
The movie loses its way, piling on pointless narrative twists and relying more and more on very contrived coincidence. [07 Apr 1995, p.13]
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