CINEMA
Plot twists highlight of‘Just Cause’
DYLAN ALFORD
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To be honest Sean Connery ana i aurerce F>sh
bume were the only reasons I eve' cons de?oo
seemg the new movie Jus! Cause The two stars
definitely made the movie. Out ?r ey wc'e drive' by
an interesting plot and strong acting by co-stars
B air Underwood and Ed Hams
At first g!ance JustC.iuse 'oo*s ‘<e another
movie about a wrongly accused man who s
proved innocent, and justice <s served Blair
Underwood p ays the wrongly ,k c ;sed man
Bobby Ear*, and Sean Connery plays the attorney
Paul Armstrong, who proves r m .nnocent
Upon further inspection, however. Just Cause
reveas a twisted under bey o» rever-ge r f
deception I won't spo-t <t by giving away the
twists, but I will say that everything yo,; th v is
happening in the first hour Of the movie changes ■
an mstant and unexpected way
The basic plot of the movie is that Bobby Ear!
(Underwood) is wrongly accused of the b'utai mur
der of an eleven year old girl m a smair F tonda
town Tanny Brown (Fishbume) coer< es Bobby
Earl mto a confession by shewing a pistol m his
mouth and playing Russian roulette with turn
Bobby Earl is sentenced to death After years on
death row he sends his grandmother to enlist the
aid ot Paul Armstrong (Connery), a pron ; Har
vard law professor and vehement opponent of the
death penalty Booby f art tet's Armsto' g " at
another death row inmate >s the one who realty
murdered the little girl m his home town
That other inmate is Biair Sullivan, played by Ed
Harris (The Abyss) Sullivan apparently went on a
Mickey and Maiiory Knox-esque ntting spree
across the South before getting caught in F londa
Sullivan is the kind ot thoughtful psychopath who
whiles away the hours in prison by writing litters to
the famines ot his victims about what it was tike to
kill their loved ones Harris plays trie part very we
Sure. Blair Sullivan is no Hannibal Lector, but then
r
agasn. Ed Hams s no Anthony Hopfans
The most impressive performance *n the him is
Undo-wood s portray;*! ot Bobby Far! Certa ?'iy no
on® eve? though! he couKt top h-s t'o'y dynamic
rote on t A tan but he may have done just that
with Bobby tan Although % ipenor writing may
have helped (not mat me writers on l a law
weren't absotute'y br -ant). Uni*-wood plays the
Just Cause
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performance to
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burn© seems at one moment menacing and
crooked. and at me ne*t moment he ,-s a hem com
mg to save the day Although Sean Connery was
very good m the load (ok- n« ,% almost upstaged
by Fishburne'S supporting performance
Connery doesn't play the usual suave, one step
ihead-ol .
In tact, he >$ more me reluctant hero m th»s case
He gets duped by almost everyone n the Mm at
one point Of another E ven h>s wife gets m on the
act Oy not tel <>g mm w”y :,r.e wants '■ to ta*o
BoOOy Eil! . A- •! VSi.n
says that he’ll be glad to go back to me comfort of
his Harvard ivory tower Not e*actly the Jan es
Bond attitude we h( ow and tove : : the owe*
hand it demonstrates Connery’s ability to. wek. act
He proves mat he -s not iust playing t>irn-.e t <*•
screen
Despite the predictable ending (sod of disap
pointing alter the intriguing plot !w the movie m
still worth seemg
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