I, the Jury 1982

Jennifer Dunning, New York Times: The movie careers by at a fast and cheeky pace. Its clues are strewn across a glossy landscape of city streets and pretty girls in various stages of dress and death by torture, and are delivered in an impenetrably gritty New York accent. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I, the Jury is a violent private eye thriller, with a certain redeeming sense of style. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: The film soon becomes repetitious, lacking the overall atmosphere of paranoia that makes Spillane's fictions bearable. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: The souped-up remake is hard as nails, with Armand Assante plausibly macho and ruggedly sexy as the amoral private eye who avenges the murder of his old Vietnam war buddy. Read more

Gary Arnold, Washington Post: Apart from Assante and the random effective bit player -- notably Frederick Downs, a Veterans Administration official who plays the first murder victim, Jack Williams -- the level of acting tends to be perilously amateurish. Read more