Seeking Justice
Anchor Bay Films | Release Date: March 16, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
38
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
14
Negative:
5
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ObserverRex ReedMar 13, 2012
Seeking Justice is an intense thriller so full of shocks it keeps you wired from start to finish. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMar 18, 2012
The movie is never dull, though, and Cage acts every moment as if he means it. As the cult's leader, Guy Pearce, looking deeply creepy with a shaved head, has a cruel playfulness. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 18, 2012
Good in spots, overall Cage is fine. Nothing more, nothing less. Kind of like Seeking Justice. Read full review
60
Village VoiceNick PinkertonMar 13, 2012
Seeking Justice is the kind of effective middle-range pulp thriller that has lately become an endangered species. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriMar 18, 2012
To be fair, when the story is moving, it's okay. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleMar 16, 2012
The busy star (Cage) acquits himself well enough in this otherwise rudimentary thriller from deliriously unsubtle director Roger Donaldson. Read full review
50
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliMar 15, 2012
Ultimately, as things develop, this becomes less about revenge than it does about escaping a set-up. A successful production of this sort needs to constantly elevate the stakes as it builds suspense. Seeking Justice fails and that failure makes it a dubious movie-going choice best suited to the low expectations of a video release. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMar 14, 2012
Eventually, though, Seeking Justice devolves into the usual business of chases and elaborate double-crosses that leave behind all vestiges of realism for the sake of popcorn thrills. Read full review
45
MovielineAlison WillmoreMar 15, 2012
Some of the film's limpness is due to the fact that Cage plays Will in a minor weird key as opposed to one of his major ones -- there are no fits of operatic oddness. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerMar 16, 2012
The idiocy of the film's conceit is that Simon recruits innocents like Will to carry out these vigilante killings. Read full review
40
NPRScott TobiasMar 19, 2012
In the end, though, Seeking Justice evokes the post-Watergate paranoia of '70s thrillers like "The Parallax View" and "Three Days of the Condor" without having a worthy conspiracy at the bottom. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 16, 2012
Mr. Donaldson has proven deftness with panting plots and knife-edge tension, but this cobbled-together noir does him no justice at all. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanMar 15, 2012
Cage and the always-intense Pearce keep this thing going, but even they seem to know the ultimate destination is a bargain bin. Read full review
40
Time OutSam AdamsMar 13, 2012
Once upon a time, the star would have added both gravity and a manic edge to this wronged everyman. At this juncture, Cage is less believable as an average Joe than he is as, say, a cursed trick rider with a flaming skull for a head. Read full review
40
EmpireKim NewmanMar 12, 2012
An unsuspenseful thriller with shades of "Death Wish." Nicolas Cage's return to New Orleans doesn't even have a hallucinatory iguana to recommend it. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeMar 12, 2012
Neither the script's conspiracies nor Nicolas Cage's performance is weird enough to trump the film's generic feel. Read full review
38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertMar 14, 2012
Here is a story hammered together from discards at the Lunacy Factory. Attempting to find something to praise, I am reduced to this: Cage's performance is not boring. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderBen SachsMar 15, 2012
January Jones shoulders the thankless part of Cage's often imperiled wife. Read full review
25
New York PostLou LumenickMar 16, 2012
Completed four years ago, Seeking Justice is dutifully directed, with an absolute minimum of thrills, by Roger Donaldson, whose credits include the terrific "No Way Out" (1987)...That film's title is a pretty good description of where Cage's career seems to be headed. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineNick SchagerMar 11, 2012
The film's tossed-off look and clunky editorial construction are still secondary to the sheer silliness of its story. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinMar 14, 2012
To paraphrase a famous Mae West wisecrack, when Cage is good, he's very good, and when he's bad, he's better. Here, however, he's just plain lousy, and like the film he so passively carries, that's no fun at all. Read full review
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