Seeking Justice (2012)

Seeking Justice (2012)

5/10

Starring:
Nicolas Cage
Guy Pearce
January Jones

Directed by Roger Donaldson

I have to be honest, I’m not a Nicolas Cage fan. Worse, I’m not a Guy Pearce fan either. Put these two together and add “Produced by Tobey Maguire (Spiderman)” and you have a recipe waiting to be boycotted.

But funny enough, the movie isn’t half bad. Not so great, but as far as B-movies go, it is okay.

Again, Cage and Pearce prove that they are not the reasons to be going to the cinema, which I must add.

The story is simple. Will Gerard (Cage) is a high school teacher whose wife Laura (January Jones) got beaten and raped while he was in school, by a man named Hodge.

In the hospital, he’s met by a man (Guy Pearce) who promises to handle the guy who did it. All Cage had to do was promise to do some other jobs for him when the time comes. Who agrees to that?

Cage did, thinking this way with the man gone, it will spare Laura the ordeal of having to go through a drawn-out trial that would cause her to relieve the matter, thereby prolonging her suffering, well he was led to that thinking anyways.

So, that night, Hodge is killed, and a picture is sent to Will as proof. 

Now, six months later guy (Guy Pearce) calls and asks for a favor. One thing led to another, our school teacher is wanted for murder, and that’s all folks.

The movie is a proper B-movie, having all the classic B-movie antics. Well, enough hating on the movie, let’s talk about what was right with it.

I wasn’t bored.

It could have been better planned, and the premise was just not it at all. But all in all, it’s a good way to kill time.

This is not the first movie Cage is doing that is not worth paying for. He has done loads.

After The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, all the movies I’ve seen him in have been just chaotic. We had to see him wield a sword in Season of the Witch, play a coming-back-from-the-grave guy in Drive Angry. All of these have not been worth the time I spent seeing them.

I look forward to his next movie Ghost Rider 2, hoping to have fun watching that, since it is a franchise movie I expect the writing, the acting and work should be a lot better.

But concerning this, I recommend you do not bother seeing it. You see, as I said it is not half bad, but it is bad enough that I cannot in good conscience say, go see it. So, see it at your own risk.