Seeking Justice 2011

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Donaldson ... seems to have lost all talent for pacing. Read more

Sam Adams, Time Out: Nicolas Cage has spent so long turning himself into a living cartoon that he's lost the ability to play human beings. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Seeking Justice is ultimately as bland, undistinguished, and primed for a direct-to-video mass burial as its generic title. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: It's a crime thriller starring Nicolas Cage, but it's not as bad as that phrase implies. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: There's plenty to enjoy in this old-fashioned exploitation movie. Read more

Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: A dumb-dumb variant on the Death Wish vigilante justice genre. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's refreshing to see Nicolas Cage, non-histrionic and sort of subtle, in a halfway clever piece of indie pulp about a teacher who enlists a cult of vigilantes to kill the man who raped his wife. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Neither the script's conspiracies nor Nicolas Cage's performance is weird enough to trump the film's generic feel... Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: [Cage] acquits himself well enough in this otherwise rudimentary thriller from deliriously unsubtle director Roger Donaldson. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Seeking Justice is memorable only because it contains what may be my favorite new Cage line reading of all time. Read more

John Anderson, Newsday: It's a perfectly palatable and even engaging thriller, albeit one requiring several leaps of faith and/or disengagement with reality. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: What is it, Nic? What happened? What do they do, send you the angry-guy action movies that Liam Neeson turns down? Read more

Scott Tobias, NPR: Seeking Justice evokes the post-Watergate paranoia of '70s thrillers like The Parallax View and Three Days of the Condor without having a worthy conspiracy at the bottom. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: There's a good idea here, in the story of helpless victims who get caught up in citizen vigilantism. But it's buried under a cheap, straight-to-DVD esthetic. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: [Cage] shouldn't do any more movies in which his character signals his acceptance of a Faustian bargain by buying two candy bars. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Seeking Justice is an intense thriller so full of shocks it keeps you wired from start to finish. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It's one of those productions that is neither good enough nor bad enough to be enjoyable. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I continue to consider Cage a gifted (if uneven) actor, but a movie like "Seeking Justice" challenges my faith. Read more

David Jenkins, Time Out: It's not that 'Justice' doesn't achieve its goals - but the goals are so modest that disappointment is inevitable. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: Working with a pip of a premise, Seeking Justice is the kind of effective middle-range pulp thriller that has lately become an endangered species. Read more