Seeking Justice: movie review
Nicolas Cage plays Will, a mild-mannered schoolteacher whose runway model-looking wife (January Jones) is attacked and raped in Roger Donaldson鈥檚 鈥淪eeking Justice,鈥� a dumb-dumb variant on the 鈥淒eath Wish鈥� vigilante justice genre. Highly distraught, Will is approached in the hospital by a shadowy figure, Simon (Guy Pearce), who makes him an offer he could easily refuse, but doesn鈥檛. For a favor to be named later, Simon will have the rapist murdered. By agreeing to this, Will, of course, lets himself in for a heap of trouble. If he didn鈥檛 there wouldn鈥檛 be a movie.
The idiocy of the film鈥檚 conceit is that Simon recruits innocents like Will to carry out these vigilante killings 鈥� the killings our liberal legal system won鈥檛 sanction. Why would Simon bring these bumbling amateurs into the fray when he and his minions could obviously do a better job? Again, if he didn鈥檛, there wouldn鈥檛 be a movie. Grade: C- (Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality.)
