Seeking Justice
2012105 minutes
rated R
by Scott Mendelson
The strangest thing about Nicolas Cage's Seeking Justice is how painfully old-fashioned it feels. It is a B-movie through-and-through, yet it resembles the sort of thing that arguably would have been an A-picture just 10 years ago. It has someone who is technically a major movie star, an up-and-coming television star as the token love interest, a prestigious 'slumming' thespian as the villain who indeed gives more credibility to the picture than it deserves, and it has just enough character actors filling in the gaps to keep us almost entertained. Moreover, even its plot and moral philosophy feels out-of-step with today's pressing issues. Seeking Justice literally feels like a movie that was shot and edited in 1995 and magically sent into the future for our enjoyment today. Of course, how much enjoyment you will might get from a creaky old relic is open to debate, but it if Hobo With a Shotgun was a homage-via-recreation of 1970s grindhouse, then Seeking Justice does the same trick for the 1990s crime thriller.
