SMS1999 From the moment Nicolas Cage attempted to act like a tough, yet caring, inner city teacher I knew this movie was unrealistic, and it only gets more and more fantastical from there. Seeking Justice suffers from the weight of being entirely unbelievable, and not in the good way. If the movie had unexpectedly transported the characters to a magic fairy land, this movie would have been more believeable (and interesting.) In Seeking Justice, the hungry rabbit jumps deep down into a rabbit hole that it can never escape.Nicolas Cage is just plain bad in this movie. To be fair to Cage, he was cast in a horrible role that doesn't fit his limited range as an actor. January Jones is given a very one-sided character who doesn't have much to do, so it's hard to evaluate her performance. Guy Pierce is decent as the bad guy, but it's such a cookie cutter role it's hard to enjoy this waste of his talent. I did enjoy Harold Perrineau (of Lost fame) in his supporting role as best friend Jimmy, but it's not a saving grace.There are other problems with Seeking Justice besides its unrealistic plot, bad characters, and bad acting, such as the constant bombardment of overly dramatic music, use of predictable movie tropes, and clunky prose that tries to sound like clever foreshadowing, but is really just banal. If you enjoy watching B movies to laugh at them, then I recommend Seeking Justice, otherwise don't waste your time.

Prismark10 Justice is a derivative and inept vigilante thriller starring Nicolas Cage showing another example of how far down his career has quickly plummeted to making lower budget movies made more for the VOD market.Cage plays Will a high school English teacher in a rough inner city school whose wife is violently raped. At the hospital he is met by a mysterious stranger named Simon (Guy Pearce) who tells him that the justice system will let him down and he knows who the rapist is and can have him taken care of. All he wants in return is for Will to do him a favour some time in the future.It seems Simon is heading a secret and underground vigilante organisation that takes part in revenge justice.Some time later Will is contacted by Simon who wants him to follow someone and then take action against a sexual deviant. Will has qualms about this but finds himself too deep. Before long he is under suspicion of murder and the person he might be responsible of killing is not a deviant but an investigative reporter on the trail of this group.Will also realises that this group has wide tentacles with a lot of people belonging and having a secret codeword. Will has few people he can trust, his wife is in danger as Simon goes after Will.You do wonder why Simon needs Will to kill this deviant? There are others in the group who could had done the job better and neater. Also why did Simon need to frame Will because of his reluctance apart from that it needed to be a necessary plot device.Rather early on we guess that Simon is unhinged which makes us question why others in his group have not fathomed this.The plot is mundane, the characters are sketchy, the acting is below par as everybody is only there for the money. Films like Death Sentence starring Kevin Bacon have done this kind of cheap genre film better.

David Arnold After his wife Laura (January Jones), is brutally attacked and raped, Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage) is approached by Simon (Guy Pearce), a man who offers Will a way to get revenge on his wife's attacker. Unable to get the images of his injured wife out of his mind, Will reluctantly accepts Simon's proposal. Unfortunately this set's Will down a path of uncertainty, deception and ultimately a fight for his own life.Seeking Justice is a decent cat-and-mouse action/thriller and is thankfully much better than Stolen, the last Nicolas Cage movie I watched. The action in the movie is pretty good and while the story isn't that original (and does have some holes) it does hold your attention and keeps you watching. There's also some good twists & turns just to keep it that bit more interesting.Nicolas Cage is his usual intense self as Will Gerard, playing the part with a grittiness that we've all come to know and love (or maybe hate), and Guy Pearce is excellent again. Usually soap actors are, well, pretty awful, but Pearce is proof that SOME can actually act and they go on to prove that they can become excellent film actors. You can see that just by what he's done and he's definitely come a long way since his Neighbours days.Like I said, Seeking Justice is a decent action/thriller and I would recommend giving it a watch.

Leofwine_draca JUSTICE is one of those twisty-turny character thrillers, a bit like the Michael Douglas film THE GAME, in which every (honest) decision the protagonist makes seems to land him further and further into trouble. The trouble begins in this one when Nic Cage's pretty wife (the slightly vapid January Jones) is raped on the streets, leading him into a spiral of revenge.The movie tackles the topic of vigilantism in a way that's fresh and entertaining, given the genre's usual favouring of ultra-violence and slim plotting (such as in the Kevin Bacon flick DEATH SENTENCE). In fact, the plot is extremely dense and incredibly fast-paced, and the tension doesn't let up for a second. That makes it a surprisingly decent movie, and my favourite Cage outing since KNOWING. Yes, there are plot holes and inconsistencies galore, but it all runs so fast and with a high level of excitement that you just don't care. The mystery aspects are drip-fed to the audience at just the right speed, too.Yes, I'm aware that Cage is churning out his movies ten a penny these days, but the benefit of quantity over quality is that some films will be better than others, and JUSTICE is one of his best. His performance is relatively natural and normal - at least as much as it can be for Cage - and there are some fine actors in support, including Guy Pearce and the underutilised Xander Berkeley. All in all a surprisingly decent film!