BEFORE: The last film of January - I know I said I'd take it easy here in Year 3, but I stayed on track, and looking back, that was a pretty solid month.
THE PLOT: When Annie Laird is selected as a juror in a big Mafia trial, she is forced by someone known as "The Teacher" to persuade the other jurors to vote "not guilty".
AFTER: Damn, I was hoping for another tight legal thriller, but instead this was a warmed-over second-rate mob film. The trial should have been the most interesting part, but they just didn't spend enough time on it. There was even a part that referenced "12 Angry Men", since the main character had to try and persuade almost all of the other jurors to change their votes.
But then, after the trial, the film went off the rails. After the main conflict was resolved, the writer had to manufacture another one - so the mob hitman becomes obsessed with the attractive juror, and can't let her go. Right... Talk about painting yourself into a corner.
The last half hour was one of the more non-sensical, completely illogical film sequences I've ever seen. What a waste of time.
Starring Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin (last seen in "Great Balls of Fire!"), Anne Heche (last seen in "Donnie Brasco"), a pre-Sopranos James Gandolfini (last seen in "Fallen"), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lindsay Crouse (last seen in "Being Human").
RATING: 3 out of 10 plane tickets
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