Yes, you heard it here first, folks. This particular movie lover prefers the esoteric neo-Western Cry Macho to this film. Plus, Warner Bros. kind of owed him that film, would have been nice to go out with that as the last in his canon. Objectively (as usual) I'm going to go 3.0 stars on this which is .25 more than I gave Cry Macho, as of this post Juror #2 can be rented for 3.99, Plex will save you a buck, they have 2.99 now.
- I would have never known the lead actor is the same lovable 10-year old from the original About A Boy movie. Here I find him quite run-of-the-mill and really dispensable.
- Toni Collette - an actress I almost always admire. But as a hard-nosed Marcia Clark kind of lawyer, ah, negative. She wasn't that much better in Nightmare Alley either, while I'm at it.
- Once the basic premise is revealed (very early) the way that the rest of the story plays out just doesn't seem to satisfy. Flashbacks in quantity have certainly been handled better in a gazillion other flicks.
- The Judge - I know it's a cliche in a court drama to have a wise-guy or wise-cracking comedic kind of judge. But it was needed here. Boring and nothing at all I like about this judge.
- Just really middle-of-the-road and kind of dull, I don't even like Zoey D in this one. Sorry, folks but I'm going mostly thumbs down.
YOU CAN VIEW FIRST TEN MINUTES OF FILM BELOW - GEE, THANKS WB