Just Cause

Just Cause (1995)

  • 22% of critics liked it
    (27 reviews)

  • 50% of users liked it
    (13,954 ratings)

The novel by John Katzenbach becomes this legal thriller starring Sean Connery as Harvard Law School professor Paul Armstrong. A legal expert whose days of trying cases are long behind him, Armstrong is moved by a plea he receives from a Florida death row inmate, Bobby Earl (Blair Underwood). It… More

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Feb 17, 1995 Wide
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    In Connery it has a hero who is inescapably appealing.

  • Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

    Despite its merits, the script fails to escape the silly season that fouls up so many thrillers, that time when the twists merely seem like the narrative equivalents of those violin shrieks on a cheesy score.

  • Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times

    It doesn't bog down in the bogs, but it's slow-moving just about everyplace else.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    There is no psychological depth, no real motivation, no human values to weigh, just characters jerked here and there like puppets in an arbitrary plot.

  • Hal Hinson, Washington Post

    The longer you stay with it, the more routine and uninspired it seems -- not to mention cowardly.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Universal D


    Go to any Walgreens across the nation and every month there's a new collection of mystery thrillers, usually by the same collection of authors, who churn out books like hamburgers: this film plays like those books read. A great cast and superior production values can't hide… More

  • Manu G


    Buried deep in the Florida Everglades is a secret that can save an innocent man or let a killer kill again. Good movie. The movie didn't really surprise me that much and I have seen better but still I thought it was well made. It really seem like Sean Connery nail his part and… More

  • familiar s


    Damn it, this was like "To Kill A Mockingbird" with the most predictable and silliest twisted ending. (Oops! I hope that ain't a spoiler. And if it is, I can only hope that you're not intelligent enough to predict it. But even a kid can tell that 2 + 2 = 4, and you… More

  • Al S


    One of the best thrillers of the nineties decade that ranks with Seven and The Silence of the Lambs. A strong, brilliant and exhilarating physiological thriller. It's chilling, absorbing, razor-sharp and incredibly unpredictable. An intense, remarkable and adrenaline-pumping… More

  • Lenny M


    Alright Kate Capshaw can't act obviously, but its Sean Connery Man and Morpheus, decent suspense drama.

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