Juror #2
- Lukaschik Gleb
- Nov 6, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Sep 18
Clint Eastwood slams political correctness in open speaking but he follows of common stream in doing film and it’s inclusion became astronomical in Juror #2, which conception was a compelling.
A script had for turn out into a magnificent story. It was with a lot of originality. An implementation that came on screens is one of drafts of unfinished doing. That state doesn’t make story noticeable by itself and it’s telling approach. Eastwood does topnotch enchanting narration by filigree combination from different scenes and graceful cinematography, which by Yves Belanger who hold camera in The Mule and Richard Jewell, but pace of the story moves in fast forward. Events are changing each other in seconds. Eastwood wants to be modern by that and adds a laughless comedy when set takes a jury room. He doesn’t intrigue as in that Nicholas Hoult’s main hero recognizes on having common with a court case but it tells when you don’t know all basic details of crime. No sensing of a protagonist in danger. Suspense moments don’t arise care. It is same fake as that was when an accused waves his hand which breaks staying glass on hundreds pieces without it’s movement. I wished a main hero to go to jail. Although it was a nominal feeling.
Act from a court takes the jury room. A discussion there becomes an interpretation of 12 Angry Men from other angle. A protagonist, who is a juror who actually caused a murder, strives to influence on everybody to not guilty verdict of a person who did it obviously as they think. I would change in written because believe in that a man went on killing when whole bar witnessed a quarrel with a victim doesn’t match for this hero and police didn’t ask an eyewitness, who saw Hoult’s hero actually but accepted for accused, to describe a car of a person because even the worst cops would do this standard procedure. However, a flaw, which was seen before watching, is that a lead personage wouldn’t get jail because he kept route while the victim was supposedly stepped on a roadway. But if assume a bad variant, I did checking. Foremost, that can’t be a “vehicular homicide” as says Kiefer Sutherland’s personage because this wasn’t intention and Hoult’s character wouldn’t get thirty years to forever of jail. State of Georgia gives from three to fifteen and I don’t think that his alcoholic past would bring to maximum even a jury wouldn’t like him. He would leave an imprisonment place earlier for a good behavior.
Eastwood brings many colorful characters. I mean, he puts political correctness in every bunch of people which a lot in his movie. Every place is filled of multiracial representatives. A director always keeps it on extreme. No matter with this, but acting is other factor of failure. Nicholas Hoult and Zoey Deutch are not natural together and separately. Specialty of Deutch is that I can’t watch on her native botched performance. She does not make to believe in her pregnancy. And Hoult is unconvincing as rehabilitated alcoholic. Toni Collette is fantastic in her role of prosecutor – it was a little when she was not on a beat. Kiefer Sutherland in short appearances does same impressive embodiment but overacts and underperforms one time in both. Cedric Yarbrough is lost but sometimes can show good. Francesca Eastwood and Gabriel Basso played bickered pair aren’t convincing. One of jurors Chikako Fukuyama who mostly had sitting with her personage is bored and doesn’t know what to do. She was executing her political correct clause in Asian section. Leslie Bibb is discovery by her disclosure of versatility in powerful performance and character. J. K. Simmons is mighty and memorable with any size of role as always. Chris Messina hesitates in acting but mostly overacts. Amy Aquino and Bria Brimmer were on acceptable. The other actors aren’t usually well and they become incapable to be organic when their personages are not active in scene. A filmmaker didn’t work with background people. He could put teddy bears and it wouldn’t make difference.
Hoult’s juror progresses in changing position of many people but screenplay ends up on illogical when everybody swaps on guilty verdict suddenly in announcement in a court premise though I expected it due to predictability of the director. It horrifies a lead character but soon, when Hoult outside, he has a conversation with the prosecutor and a main hero of a film speaks without trembling and excuses himself by uttering on ostensible morality that it is better to imprison a human who did a criminal before instead of a man who just had a birth of child. A flick’s ending becomes an embarrassment. The prosecutor, who made a personal investigation and revealed a definitive truth by seeing a face of a killer by just enter his name in searcher and get a full filling of photos page of not famous person, comes to protagonist’s house and from there can reason that Collette’s character wants to bring a justice but credits appear and it’s awkward cliffhanger leaves without knowledge of details in the fate of the protagonist. That couldn’t have a matter.
