I really enjoyed this. If I see the name Gene Hackman on the list of actors, I'm all in. This is a wonderful film about the gyrations that will be gone through to sway the verdict of a case that has subterranean issues. It appears simple at first and then we get into the dirt. John Cusack, who is one of those everyman actors who We gravitate toward, provides our mirror into the goings on all around him. Because he is charming and flip, everyone seems to like him; of course, nothing is one-hundred percent and he does have an adversary in the jury room. What an interesting metaphor, also, for justice, than a blind man, whom Cusack pushes for jury foreman. One criticism often leveled at this kind of film is that there are twists and turns that are hard to follow. That is not the case here. Everything we see, we are let in on and allowed to see things unfold above the ground.
Review of Runaway Jury
