[.ca] The Runaway Jury (Full Screen)

From Amazon.com:
Based on the bestseller by John Grisham, Runaway Jury is a slick thriller that's exciting enough to overcome the gaps in its plot. The ultimate target has been changed: Grisham's legal assault on the tobacco industry was switched to the hot-button issue of gun control (no doubt to avoid comparison to The Insider) in a riveting exposé of jury-tampering. Gene Hackman plays the ultra-cynical, utterly unscrupulous pawn of the gun-makers, using an expert staff and advanced electronics to hand-pick a New Orleans jury that will return a favorable verdict; Dustin Hoffman (making his first screen appearance with real-life former roommate Hackman) defends the grieving widow of a gun-shooting victim with idealistic zeal, while maverick juror John Cusack and accomplice Rachel Weisz play both ends against the middle in a personal quest to hold gun-makers accountable. It's riveting stuff, even when it's obvious that Grisham and director Gary Fleder have glossed over any details that would unravel the plot's intricate design. --Jeff Shannon

Weisz, Hackman and Hoffman are great but the film is not.:
Lackluster adaptation to the John Grisham novel has only the acting to save it for total disaster with great performances by Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman, and Dustin Hoffman but they are working from a half baked script that in essence does not know what it wants to be and direction that is marginal at best. The tobacco story is gutted for a pure and simple look at gun violence, and the setting of New Orleans is not the original setting of the book. If you want to see this movie, the acting more than makes up for the problems it has, but not by much.

The strong performance of Rachel Weisz is the only plus here:
Derivative thriller that not only does not stay close to the book but also lacks the insight to give a better show. The script has too many problems and the pacing starts and stalls at will in the most starling of moments. The acting is fine with Rachel Weisz stealing the show and doing better than she should have consitering the script is flat and Gene Hackman doing his best work in years. The whole espionage aspect to the film just does not work, and in reality, the case would have been throng out of a real court. The acting is the only plus in this film and that is a miracle because the rest of the film just does not work. Thanks to Rachel Weisz and Gene Hackman, the movie is just ok but if it had a decent script, it could have been better.

The actors deserve better than this, as we all do.:
Bleak film that rather sweep the subject of guns under the rug, and skirt the issues that are raised. Everything from the direction to the screenplay is not handled properly and the whole victims right issue is made to look like a joke. Gene Hackman, Rachel Weisz, and Dustin Hoffman do fine despite all of this and they each turn in great performances. Hackman is always great as the bad guy, while Weisz is spectacular as the woman who holds the jury in the palm of her hands and Hoffman is great as the attorney who is trying to find justice for his client. Each of them should have been nominate for academy awards but thanks to a week script, flat direction and a bias point of view, they are not served well by the movie they are in. Gene Hackman, Rachel Weisz, and Dustin Hoffman deserve better than what they had to work with, and hopefully, they could work together again in a much better movie, especially a better movie than this debacle.

Other reviewers watched a different movie?:
Not sure what movie the other reviewers watched, but both my SO and I enjoyed this movie immenensely. Well acted, well directed, and well executed. The fact it goes "morally conscious" at the end of the movie, didn't detract from the experience at all, no matter what I think about gun control. It wasn't ABOUT that, it was about the story, which was great to watch unfold.

Anti-gun propoganda:
This movie is utter nonsense done by leftist actors who hate the 2nd ammendment more than the people who actually kill people. Don't waste your time by watching this or any other left wing nonsense.