Seeking Justice
Director Roger Donaldson has made some entertaining movies in the past, notably Thirteen Days and No Way Out, but a good deal of his output has been Hollywood hackwork. His latest exercise is typically well crafted, and stars a subdued Nicolas Cage (pictured right) as Will, a New Orleans schoolteacher who becomes upset when his much-loved wife (January Jones) is raped. A mystery man (Guy Pearce, pictured left) turns up at the hospital and offers to help bring summary justice to the assailant. Will agrees. But then the mystery man demands favours in return, and Will finds himself the target of a sinister group of vigilantes. There’s an interesting idea behind the film but there’s so little attempt to analyse the rights and wrongs of vigilantism, that it makes Michael Winner’s Death Wish look like a think-piece.
Donaldson’s skillful at orchestrating the action sequences, and there are two plot twists that should take you by surprise. At least you won’t be bored. Even better news is that Nicolas Cage doesn’t have to pretend to fall in love with a baby.
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