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Just Cause (1995)

Rate: 6
Viewed: 1/08

JCause
1/08: Before I make comments about Just Cause, I want to get one thing out of the way: who the fuck cares if it's Scarlett Johansson?

Now, it's a good, gripping thriller but has many faults with one that's the most glaring of them all: the casting of Kate Capshaw. I thought I had seen the last of her in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Because Sean Connery once played Indiana Jones' father and is the executive producer of Just Cause, he probably did her a favor. Kate Capshaw has my head shaking, causing me to wonder how the heck she made it into Hollywood or what exactly Steven Spielberg saw in her.

The acting by the rest, except for Laurence Fishburne who's acceptable enough, is slightly tacky. Blair Underwood doesn't do anything for me. Ed Harris overacts. On the other hand, I'm impressed with the story which has a clever twist and plenty of depth and tautness. What hurts it the most is the stupidity.

First of all, I don't get why the black guy, who attended Cornell, would have any further relations with the professor after he kidnapped his wife and the girl. Two, why does he go back to the same location where he did the girl in 1985? He made it too easy for himself to get caught. Three, I can't believe how dumb the professor is, having been baited in the manner of "hook, line, and sinker." Four, is Just Cause meant to be a parody of lawyers from the South and/or professors from the North?

The funniest line out of this mess is the professor who's left with this sole thought on his mind, "I can't believe I married a total bitch!" I think Sean Connery meant to say, "I can't believe I agreed to have Kate in my movie!"

All in all, please no more films with Kate Capshaw.