Film Review: Seeking Justice

Only one week after his last film was released in the U.K (the truly dire Trespass), came another Nicolas Cage film. Seeking Justice came out in this country last November under the shortened name Justice, but has yet to see a U.S. release date strangely enough. It's to be released in March in the States.

Maybe it was the blow back from the disastrous box office takings (so bad in fact, the film was pulled out of cinemas and released on DVD just two weeks later) but it's actually slightly unfair on the film, because it's not the worst film Cage has done recently...

Cage plays Will Gerard, who after his wife Laura (January Jones) is raped and assaulted enlists the help of a vigilante group led by Simon (Guy Pearce) to 'seek justice' on the perpetrator. But if the group does this for him, Will owes them a favour, and six months later, they come to ask for it...

Seeking Justice is nothing original by any length, but it managed to keep this reviewer watching for the duration. There are some nice action scenes throughout, and you do wonder where Will's debt to the group is leading. It's watchable fluff, can't really add much more praise than that.

The cast is filled out by a few recognizable TV faces. As well as the aforementioned January Jones (from Mad Men of course), there's also Harold Perrineau (Michael from Lost) and unfortunately, Jennifer Carpenter from Dexter, who I feel is one of the worst actresses working today. Luckily, she is barely in it, thus saving the film from her awful acting.

Cage is OK as Will. He doesn't go O.T.T. as he has been prone to do in recent years, but by the same stroke, it's not a particularly memorable performance either, but a huge step up from stuff like Trespass and Knowing etc.

But, overall, while I didn't mind the film at all when it was on, and it kept me engaged throughout, I'm struggling to find much to recommend it to anyone. If you're after something that isn't very challenging and mildly distracting, this is the film for you.

**
An odd one. Originally, I was going to award the film 3 stars, but as I wrote the review, I struggled to find anything really good about it. It's watchable, and never dull, but not much else stands out about it.