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Overall Grade: D
Story: C-
Acting: C
Direction: C-
Visuals: C-
Major disappointment (minor spoilers)
by maynardwv (movies profile) (Sep 6, 2007)
529 of 730 people found this review helpful
First off, this movie would have been 100 times better if they had stuck with the book and made this about tobacco. The gun plot line just didn't work and it weakened th... Full Review

Overall Grade: C
Story: N/A
Acting: N/A
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Well...
by celluloidscribe (movies profile) (Mar 14, 2008)
200 of 267 people found this review helpful
Okay, the movie is not badly made, but the real-life twist is ironic as can be. The book was about big tobacco doing whatever it could to influence, manipulate and even... Full Review

Overall Grade: A
Story: A
Acting: A
Direction: A
Visuals: A-
Clever and Intelligent
by amc30star (movies profile) (Mar 1, 2008)
145 of 227 people found this review helpful
Runaway Jury is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time. It's interesting and keeps the viewer alert. There's not a boring moment in this feature. You know the... Full Review

Overall Grade: F
Story: F
Acting: A
Direction: A
Visuals: C
Hollywood Anti-Gun Propoganda Terd Nugget
by lca133 (movies profile) (Jan 30, 2007)
100 of 143 people found this review helpful
Awesome Grishim novel turned Hollwyood Propoganda. What a freaking disappointment. Saw it during the summer at a free screening and was I disappointed. I loved the book... Full Review

Overall Grade: F
Story: F
Acting: C-
Direction: F
Visuals: C
Run Away from "Runaway Jury"
by kurt3141592 (movies profile) (Jan 30, 2007)
72 of 105 people found this review helpful
I like Hackman, Hoffman and Cusack. I like Grisham's books. But "Runaway Jury" is Hollywood politcal correctness run amok. Grisham's original story involved the toba... Full Review

Overall Grade: C-
Story: C
Acting: B-
Direction: C
Visuals: C
A Grisham Story Ruined
by netsecpro2003 (movies profile) (Mar 26, 2007)
48 of 77 people found this review helpful
Hollywood has sucked us in. With previous movies including The Firm, The Pelican Brief, and A Time to Kill, we expected Runaway Jury to be top notch. Unfortunately it is... Full Review

Overall Grade: B+
Story: N/A
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Apt mix of courtroom intrigue and con-man scheming
by greg_of_gregs_previews (movies profile) (Jan 30, 2007)
29 of 40 people found this review helpful
Sometimes, not always, but sometimes, when a movie stacks its cast with so many recognizable performers, one can argue that the producers may have been trying to make up... Full Review

Overall Grade: F
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The evil film lobby manipulated the verdict
by tommco (movies profile) (Jan 30, 2007)
47 of 78 people found this review helpful
I actually walked out after the 2nd anti-gun propaganda scene in the movie. I had not read the Grisham novel, but little did I know 'till I read the reviews here that it... Full Review

Overall Grade: D
Story: D-
Acting: C-
Direction: D
Visuals: C
Disappointing
by evilmike30 (movies profile) (Jan 30, 2007)
44 of 76 people found this review helpful
I was looking forward to a fairly good verison of the book up on the Big Screen, and here it turns out that Gun Makers Are Baaaaad. Pretty ironic. The tobacco companies... Full Review

Overall Grade: C
Story: C-
Acting: B
Direction: C+
Visuals: C
Great Cast, Very Disappointing Ending
by ulbud (movies profile) (Nov 6, 2007)
10 of 11 people found this review helpful
This film had the makings of an enjoyable and intelligent suspense-filled film. It had a great cast and a plot full of twists and turns. The payoff is just not there in... Full Review
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