1st watched 2/22/2004 - 7 out of 10(Dir-Gary Fleder): Well-acted and good suspense movie with a plethora of stars and with a definite political view on gun control. This movie is about a trial between a wife of a innocently gunned-down victim and the gun industry. If this was all this was about it may not be very good, but it's also almost a how-to movie on swaying the jury selection process in a extremely profound way thru Gene Hackman's company's attempt to find every little piece of dirt possible of the jurors and bribing them for their vote. But it's also a movie about John Cusack's characters attempts at getting redemption for another case where the gun industry won against an entire town. All in all, despite the obvious political overtones, this movie was well-done and kept my interest from beginning to end. The acting and direction were first rate and the story-behind-the-story was revealed slowly enough to keep the suspense going.
Review of Runaway Jury
