Kong had the oppurtunity to see Runaway Jury tonight thanks to the fact that Gary Fleder, its director, is from Kong's hometown. The film was actually pretty entertaining despite using quite a bit of convention and some pretty hard to swallow ploy developments. Luckily the films main goal is to entertain through tension which it achieves with particular thanks to excellent cast (John Cussack, Rachel Weisz, Dustin Hoffman, Gene Hackman...). Gene Hackman is easily the most fun to watch, and he and Dustin Hoffman share one particularly juicy little scene (it's unfortunate these two characters didn't interact beyond that one part).
In the end it's not much more than fun film, but sometimes that's all a film needs or wants to be.
In the end it's not much more than fun film, but sometimes that's all a film needs or wants to be.