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Just Cause [DVD] [1995]

DVD ~ Sean Connery
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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Product details

  • Actors: Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Capshaw, Blair Underwood, Ed Harris
  • Directors: Arne Glimcher
  • Writers: Jeb Stuart, John Katzenbach, Peter Stone
  • Producers: Arne Glimcher, Anna Reinhardt, Gary Foster, Lee Rich
  • Format: Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: Arabic, Bulgarian, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Warner Home Video
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Jan 2000
  • Run Time: 98 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004D2YW
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 32,150 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

Reviews

Amazon.co.uk Review

Just Cause is a film that relies on phony plot twists and steals openly from any other thriller that it can remember. If there was a drinking game requiring players to drink during every cinematic "homage", you'd be tanked after its first 45 minutes. Take one case of racial injustice, place it in an exotic, exquisitely photographed location (the Florida Everglades), and bring in an outsider, played by a bankable star, to save the day. Make sure nothing appears as it seems. Add a couple of plot twists, some over-the-top character actors (Ed Harris, shamelessly riffing on Hannibal Lecter), stir, and serve. The big name in this case is Sean Connery, who plays a Harvard law professor summoned to the swamps by an apparently innocent death row inmate (Blair Underwood), who swears he didn't rape and kill that 11-year-old girl. He says he confessed because maverick psycho-cop Tanny Brown (Laurence Fishburne) made him play a solo game of Russian roulette. He says his Serial-killer neighbour on death row (Harris) committed the crime. Connery buys it, the audience buys it, and how could they not? Director Arne Glimcher (who made the lacklustre Mambo Kings) coerces everyone with simplistic plot manipulations. Characters are given no depth, and the actors are pawns moved about like pieces on a Cluedo gameboard. -- Dave McCoy, Amazon.com


Special Features

2.35 Wide Screen
French\Italian
English\Italian
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English French Italian
Dolby Digital 5.1
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Arabic\Bulgarian\Dutch\English\French\German\Italian\Portuguese\Romanian\Spanish

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10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Best avoided, 14 Jan 2003
By Peter (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
  
I'm afraid - for I'm a fan of Sean Connery - that this film is disappointingly shallow. There's very little character development, and I certainly found I cared very little what happened to Mr Connery's character, or any of the rest. There is an unpleasant execution scene, which seemed gratuitous, and there appears to be some sort of political agenda poking through.

The plot is clumsy, with lots of "unexpected" twists. When everything is set up for a happy ending and all the loose ends tied up, but only 45 minutes into the film, it's not difficult to predict a major upset on the way.

The film manages to project some of the run-down, seedy ordinariness of small-town Florida, but that's not much of a consolation.

And there are no extras worth mentioning on the DVD. Avoid.

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Gripping and clever, 18 Dec 2000
By benreed@clara.co.uk (London. England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Just Cause [VHS] [1995] (VHS Tape)
This film is absolutely brilliant....heard nothing about it in the press but the cast is tops..and the storyline very clever..... its dirt cheap as well.... watch it...
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Another lost cause for Connery, 28 Jan 2008
By Trevor Willsmer (London, England) - See all my reviews
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Just Cause is one of those films that at first makes you wonder quite why it was so heavily slated when it came out - nothing special but competent enough and with an excellent supporting performance from Ed Harris. Then you hit the last third and everything starts to get increasingly silly until you've got a killer with a flashlight strapped to his forehead threatening to fillet Sean Connery's wife (a typically mannered and unconvincing Kate Capshaw) and kid (a very young Scarlet Johannsen) in an alligator skinner's shack. The kind of movie that's probably best seen on a plane, and even then only once.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nail biting stuff
With such a brilliant cast, Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne and Ed Harris, what can go wrong! An absolute must be seen!
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Sean Connery, excellent as always, plays the part of a Scottish Professor of Law at present teaching and lecturing in the United States. Read more
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