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NiaValet 2012-05-24 06:43:51

Another Movie with Demi Moore

Alex Baldwin is incredibly believable as a rather warped demonicfigure. Fun to watch even if a bit predictable. The premise wasinteresting, hanging on the edge of Gothic Novel. I could believe inhis head trips, because he himself believed in them.Demi Moore, well, is as always Demi Moore.I have a tough time losing myself in the story when Ms. Moore is in thescene. She is a great grandstander (Kate Hepburn or Joan Crawford)except that she is playing ... herself. Actors practice their lines tofind their characters, it is easy for me to picture D.M reading herscript across the table from Bruce Willis and asking him if she soundsokay.I have to confess; the only movie I believed her to be IN was G.I Jane.The role did not surprise me, it fit. As for the rest, her co actors, no matter how small the part, seem tocarry the films she is in. They act and build the story for her whilethe director makes sure to center the camera on her whenever shespeaks. The movie is made because she is in it. None of this is exactly true, but it is how I feel about it when it isall said and done.

wes-connors 2012-05-23 13:26:47

Demi for the Defense

Sculptress and single mother Demi Moore (as Annie Laird) answers hersummons for jury duty with uncommon good citizenship. She agrees toserve on a jury hearing the case against a murdering mobster Tony LoBianco (as Louie Boffano). But, psychotic henchman Alec Baldwin (asVincent, the "Teacher") will do anything to insure Ms. Moore vote hismob boss "Not Guilty"; this puts the lives of Moore, son JosephGordon-Levitt (as Oliver), and topless best friend Anne Heche (asJuliet) in grave danger."The Juror" makes little sense, if you think too much about what ishappening to Moore; but, she is attractive, and the movie is moderatelyengaging. For a courtroom drama resulting in a sequestered jury, you'dbe surprised at how little time the camera spends in court; Moore andthe action are all over the world, with the trial being seen onlyrarely. Mr. Baldwin is a charming psycho, especially with sidekickJames Gandolfini (as Eddie). This is the movie to cite if you want tobe excused from jury duty.***** The Juror (2/2/96) Brian Gibson ~ Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin,Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Anne Heche

Fever 2012-05-22 12:08:45

ugh...

While this movie had an interesting plot, it was carried out very poorly. Alec Baldwin's character was just too psychotic to be convincing. The story became predictable and the cinematography was terrible. yuck.

2012-05-22 05:45:30

I liked it!

I first saw this film on channel four and I loved it. Demi Moore put in a very captivating performance and Alec Baldwin was very scary!Overall, this is a good movie with plenty of unforgettable moments, but not one for the faint hearted!

inspectors71 2012-05-14 11:50:20

The OJ Jury was smarter

If you have two hours to kill (or whack, in the mob nomenclature), thenfeel free to watch The Juror, a brain-dead thriller that is bestwitnessed on TV (you don't have to pay for it and you can pretty-muchtell when the cussing, sex, and bloodletting are being snipped out).It's an easy synopsis, here--mob boss orders a hit, Alec Baldwincarries it out, there's a trial, Demi Moore gets threatened in order tokeep her from voting "guilty," biff-boom-bang. By the end, there are lots of bullet holes in the bad guys, Moore hasturned from cutesy artist to Dirty Harriet, and, if you're an AnneHeche or Alec Baldwin fan, you are wondering if you should rent thisnonsense to see what all happened in the sack. Since I am neither, I'll stick with the butchered-for-TV version andhope that not all juries are as stupid as the one Demi served on.

pvilleguy 2012-05-13 21:19:25

Implausible

Annie Laird (Demi Moore) is chosen as a juror because she wants to be ajuror. The trial she will hear involves a murder charge against astereotypical mob boss named Lou Boffano (Tony LoBianco). Instereotypical mob fashion, Boffano sets one of his "soldiers," namedEddie (James Gandalfini)" and a contract hit man known as Teacher (AlecBaldwin) who evidently works for a Colombian drug gang that doesbusiness with Boffano's gang. Rather quickly, Eddie and Teacher maketheir presence known to Annie. Teacher in particular menaces Annie andthreatens her son, Oliver (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). Teacher bugs Annie'shome, her phones and has an inordinate number of photos of Annie. It isinteresting that he spent all that time and effort getting audio ofAnnie's home but did not plant any surveillance cameras. Eddie's roleis less clear. He seems to have some minor supervisory role overTeacher, but Teacher is clearly in command. Turns out, in fact, thatTeacher was the trigger man in the murder for which Boffano is ontrial. Somehow Teacher (who seems to be planning the defense lawyers'strategy) wants Annie to convince the jury that Boffano is too stupidto be in charge of anything. He wants her to convince the jury thatTeacher is the real mastermind -- without revealing his identity, ofcourse. This hare-brained plot then morphs, briefly, into what comesoff as a parody of the great movie, "12 Angry Men." Unlike thatclassic, where the jurors debate and discuss the evidence in greatdetail, in "The Juror," there only seems to be one piece of evidence:an audiotape that ambiguously implicates Boffano. Annie's job is topoint out that ambiguity, which she does over and over again. One ofthe jurors reveals some kind of bias toward mobsters, or murderers orItalian-Americans (it's not quite clear what his bias is, just thathe's biased), but the other jurors seem to have the depth of intellectof Cletus Spuckler and are persuaded by Annie to acquit Boffano. Ofcourse that does not end the story. Boffano did not like the way Annielooked at him after the verdict was read and wants Teacher to take herout. Teacher has developed an obsession with Annie (of course) andwants to take care of it his own way, i.e., by continuing to pressureher and convince that he's the only person who can keep the Boffanosfrom killing her or Oliver. Annie tries to get help from lawenforcement, but of course they are ineffectual (never mind that Anniehas enough evidence to have Teacher given 10-15 lethal injections ANDshe knows that the Boffano family will not come to Teacher's aid). Shetries to hide Oliver in Guatemala with his father (maybe -- at leastwith some guy with whom Annie once had "something"), although she usesno alias and flies a commercial airline. Thus, Teacher finds her andOliver easily, leading to Teacher being executed by some Guatemalansomethings --- Soldiers? Police? Drug lords? -- with the coup de gracedelivered by Annie herself. Hooray.The story is unbelievable at any level. Alec Baldin is somewhatmenacing as Teacher, but comes off more like a stalker than a hit man.His beating Boffano to the punch and blowing up the car when Boffanothought his men were going to kill teacher is weak. Boffano left hislimo unguarded, evidently, and the men about to kill Teacher simply lethim pull an obvious detonator out of his pocket and use it. Right. Theywould have plugged him immediately when he went into his pocket. DemiMoore is supposed to be the strong woman as Annie, but she is reallykind of dull-witted when you get right down to it (not using an aliasto get to Guatemala; letting Oliver ride a bike home from school byhimself, etc.). Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays his totally helpless rolequite well. He's supposed to be an extraordinarily bright kid, but heseems a little slow, too. For a mob soldier, Eddie is far too affable-- that is primarily a problem with the script. James Gandolfini isokay in the role, I guess, but it's shame it was written with Mr.Rogers as the role model for a mob soldier.All that aside, despite it's flaws, "The Juror" has a lot of momentswhere it is a fairly successful thriller. It needed a lot more of thosemoments and a lot less of "12 Angry Men," which it imitated poorly atbest, and a tighter script to close up some of the plot holes.

martymaster 2012-05-09 05:16:46

Not bad,not good,just average.

This is an ok thriller,I have seen worse,but also better.The acting is not great,but I have seen worse.The story has some suspense and it got me to sit through the wholemovie.To sum it up,this is an average movie.

2012-05-08 18:59:55

love this movie

This review is from: The Juror (DVD) This is one of my favorite movies. I recently went to a movie in the theater and the young man was so familiar to me and by the time I got home I realized he is the same person as Demi Moore's son in this movie! I'm not a huge Demi Moore fan, this is one of three movies that I really thought she did a great job. Alec Baldwin is "deadly charming"...

2012-05-04 23:40:09

I liked it!

Ahh the mafia. Lock a few up, the rest hunt you down. The movie was entertaining, probably mainly because of Alec. He's gorgous, and his character is cold, evil, scary, and determined. Bad mix. The saddest part was when he killed the blonde doctor friend. I mean come on. How sick can you be.

merklekranz 2012-05-04 03:58:03

Takes too long to go nowhere ........

"The Juror" features Alec Baldwin in yet another edgy criminal role notunlike his character in "Miami Blues", which happens to be terrific,while "The Juror" is close to terrible. Everything about the trial isvery vague, stretched, and uninteresting. The characters are mostlyunlikable, including Demi Moore. So what you get is a highly unlikelystory of a meek artist juror submitting to Baldwin's threats for almostthe entire film, and then suddenly transforming into "Mrs Rambo" forthe unbelievably weak finale. Throw in a ridiculous "how did he dothat?" relating to the demise of Tony LoBianco, some questionablemotivation, and a general feeling of "no way could that happen". - MERK

FlashCallahan 2012-04-30 04:39:59

Bada-Bing....

When Annie Laird is selected as a juror in a big Mafia trial, she isforced by someone known as "The Teacher" to persuade the other jurorsto vote "not guilty".He threatens to kill her son if she doesn't commit. When the trial isover, he can't let her go...There are two big problems with this movie, they should have trimmedthe ending by at least ten minutes, and Baldwin should not have got hismotivation from the T-1000.There are times when he is so autonomous, you can almost hear themechanics grinding in the background, which is a shame, because in thefirst act, he is really convincing, but when we find out he's theTeacher, it's as if he's expecting the audience to want him go thatlittle more Psychotic.Moore is as good as she always is, convincing as the parent who isworried for her son's well being. But when Baldwin and Moore are onscreen together, it just doesn't convince. You do think every now andagain that they will get together at the end, but thats only becausethe fear factor that Baldwin had in the first act vanishes.Gandolfini is great in this movie though, and shows what a talent heis. Just a shame he isn't in the movie a lot more.There is some good camera-work and good performances, even from yourtoken mobsters, who look like extras from Goodfellas.It's not a bad film, entirely watchable, just not plausible enough.

Kevin Smith 2012-04-29 11:46:43

Yeah, Demi can act

Yeah, I know it's popular to diss movies like this and even more popular todiss Demi Moore. I'm gonna have to report, though, that Demi Moore IS thebest thing about this movie and, as I have discovered, she CAN act. It'sbeen a long time since I saw this film but I can still remember herwonderfully fierce, beautiful performance that rises above the pouty,mediocre script. I was also struck by her performance in "The Seventh Sign"(which was better written than "The Juror"). So, I guess what I'm trying tosay here is, C'mon give her a chance, watch some of her films and decide foryourself. This may not be her best film, but it is one of her bestperformances. Oh yeah, other reasons to watch this film are nice supportingperformances from Alec Baldwin and Anne Heche. Oh yeah, and if afterwatching this you don't believe that Ms. Moore can act, check out "Ghost" or"GI Jane" and then tell me that those are two of the gutsiest performancesof the decade. So, take it or leave it...I guess it sounds like I'm a bigfan of hers, which I'm really not, just sick of all of the trash talk thatshe can't act.

2012-04-28 03:54:31

One & only reason to see this movie--Alec Baldwin

Plot is kind of ridiculous, but acting is good--especially Alec Baldwin's performance.

Steve Richmond 2012-04-27 17:57:34

Credible acting but lousy script about sums this one up.

The Juror is not a bad film but it certainly falls short in the writingdepartment. The always steady Alec Baldwin gives a fine performance and DemiMoore is very believable in her role. Ann Heche adds to the fine cast ofplayers but it is not enough to save The Juror from rating only average.

Robert J. Maxwell 2012-04-26 22:05:13

Twisted Emotions.

Not too bad. It begins with a situation any experienced movie maven islikely to regard as stock. A representative of the mob, Alex Baldwin,contacts a juror, Demi Moore, in a murder case against mob boss Tony LoBianco. Baldwin informs Moore that she has a very fine son. He'll stayhealthy as long as Moore sees to it that the jury brings in the verdictof not guilty.The rest could have been written by the numbers twenty or thirty yearsago, but now is not then. The all-powerful mob has been done to deathand it must now be portrayed as in decline, slowly being edged out bythe Calle cartel and other organizations of that ilk.A further novelty is the casting of Alex Baldwin as Vince, thesmooth-talking enforcer. He doesn't look particularly Italian. Hedoesn't wear suits of raw silk. He doesn't use double negatives. Heends his gerunds with a pronounced "g" -- "going" instead of "goin'".Baldwin's part is a complex one. He begins as another tool of theMafia, although his relationship with them is properly ambivalent. Hemanipulates Demi Moore into complying with his demands through a fluidset of threats and fake concerns about her and her family. As in,"Please, I beg you, don't make me kill your son." To put an end to anydoubt, Baldwin picks up Moore's best friend, Anne Heche, to whom Moorehas spilled every bean available. He beds her and then smiles as heforces her at pistol point to swallow a lethal dose of barbiturates.Then he appears genuinely to fall in love with Moore. Their tense bondhas been, as he puts it, like a marriage. Tearfully, but stillmanfully, he says, "I'm sorry you hate me, Annie, because I really dolove you." As I said, the emotions behind his role are always inprocess, but Baldwin manages to pull it off.He may be right on both counts. He loves her, true, but she really DOEShate him. After she finagles a not guilty verdict out of the otherjurors, she hates him enough to cooperate with the cops and betray himto his Mafia bosses.The good fellas try to whack him but he's a clever guy and sees totheir demise instead. I mean, you know he's clever because he'spronouncing all those "g"s. Probably graduated from Reed College.But, having discovered Moore's betrayal, he displays a vengeful personanever before shown. Moore is trying to hide her son in a remoteGuatamalan village. Baldwin flies to Guatamala to kill the kid, Moorein another airplane right behind him. There is a final shoot out,naturally, that leaves a few loose ends dangling. That climacticcharacter of Baldwin's is strictly by the book. Any subtlety we've seenearlier is all gone. He's just another bloodthirsty villain to beoutwitted. Moore has to kill Baldwin, naturally -- but not before hetries to sneak a hidden pistol out of his ankle holster. We can't havethe heroine shoot him down in cold blood. Anything but that.Demi Moore has always been kind of a puzzle to me. She can act, butlots of people her age can act. She's never been in an outstandingmovie and she's not staggeringly beautiful, not exotic in any way, yether career goes on. That's okay. I'm not complaining. I only wish therewere more to be seen on the screen. She has a husky voice, a strongsplanchnocranium, hard eyes, and a neck of substance. It fits the part.The role hardly calls for an hysterical weeper with spindly limbs.The film is nicely textured. We see the friendships and the tensionswithin and between groups. We see uncertainty, ambiguity, a nebulouspatchwork of values that we innocents would be hard put to deal with.

Kyle769 2012-04-26 07:28:44

Demi's best

I am not a big Demi Moore fan and seeing this movie wasn't top priority butafterwards I was very pleased with the outcome. This is, by far, DemiMoore's best film to date as she shows so much emotion as a single motherstuck in a difficult position between working for the mafia in order to saveher family and herself. Moore truly deserved an Academy Award nomination ifnot a win, and the Razzies were very out of line by giving her Worst Actressfor this (it was moreso for "Striptease" and that also wasn't that bad...athing about the Razzies, they don't know what the hell they're talking abouthalf the time). Alec Baldwin is pretty good as the villain and Anne Hechegives all she has as the token best friend. Ted Tally's ("Silence of theLambs") script is riveting and keeps you on the edge of your seat. A greatsuspense film with a great performance by Demi Moore...see it and believeit. 8/10

Boba_Fett1138 2012-04-20 07:28:55

How did this movie ever managed to turn out to be so silly.

It's crazy, basically we have a decent genre plot here and some morethan capable actors to play the roles but the movie makes some wrongchoices, that often turn this movie into a silly one and therefore alsoa quite bad one.Not that the movie was very original to begin with but at least itshowed some potential with its story. It's the sort of concept thatshould turn the movie in a decent thriller to watch. For its firsthalve or so it also is a quite watchable movie but then some of thetwists and turns start to kick in. The movie could had gone into manydifferent ways with its story but yet it picks the least likely onesand for some odd reason the movie toward the end becomes more of anaction flick than a thriller really. The characters were being allstill quite credible in the first halve but in the second halve we seethem all doing things that completely ruins some of the credibilitythey had build up in the first halve.Further more it's pretty much a movie by the number, without any realsurprises in it, despite of the twists and turns the movie is taking.It's one of those '90's thrillers that try to look more clever thanthey in fact really are. On top of that '90's movies all tend to havethe same visual look and feeling to it, which just isn't the mostcompelling thing. In terms of style the '90's was one of the worst, ifnot the worst, decade for movies. Like a lot of thrillers from those days the movie has a pretty solidcast, with some well known names in it, like Demi Moore, Alec Baldwin,Anne Heche and James Gandolfini. Also child-actor Joseph Gordon-Levittis a quite popular grown up actor these days, with his most recentroles in movies such as "(500) Days of Summer" and "G.I. Joe: The Riseof Cobra".Not really a great thriller that is worth watching but also far fromthe worst that you'll ever see.5/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

jDriftyx82 2012-04-19 18:57:42

The Juror

Before I watched The Juror, I had one thought in mind. "This movielooks great". It had a great plot, great actors, and it was a crimefilm, which I enjoy. But sadly, this movie fails on almost all theselevels.The acting isn't superb. But it isn't terrible. In fact, it's the bestpart of the film.The writing, forget about it. Terrible. Awful. The worst. The actorstry so hard to make the dialogue sound good, but even with their decentdelivery, it still sounds cheesy, uninspired, and stupid.It's almost like the movies spoofing itself.The movie is stupid, cheesy, uninspired, one-sided, with good acting.I would say see it for the acting. But there are hundreds of movieswith better acting, and better writing! Go watch those.

sol 2012-04-16 02:10:59

Yeah! yeah! yeah! I'll get otta ya life fa ever!

**SPOILERS** If you don't take the film "The Juror" seriously you canactually find it quit entertaining in just how unintentionally funnyand campy it really is. You begin to notice that there's something verystrange in the film after the person big shot Mafia bigwig LouieBoffano aka the big Spaghetti-O , Tony La Bianco, whom Juror #1 AnnieLierd, Demi Moore, was blackmailed into getting off on a murder chargegot acquitted. Boffano was charged in ordering the execution styleslaying of fellow Mafia boss Salvator "Big Sal" Riggio and his grandsonTommy who just happened to be an innocent bystander. It seemed that "Big Sal" was deadly serious in being against the Mafia,or his fellow Mafia Don Louie Boffano, in making a deal with theColombian Cali Drug Cartel which in effect had him whacked. WithBoffano now acquitted he, and his goons, still keep blackmailing Anniewhich can only attract attention on them which is something they don'tneed or want. The guy doing most of the blackmailing is Vincent "TheTeacher", Alec Baldwin, who freelances as a hit-man for the BoffanoFamily between affairs with those, women of course, whom he'sblackmailing like Annie. And in the case of Annie's good friend theawfully cute and brainy Juiet (Anne Heche), who's a doctor byprofession, "The Teacher" in keeping himself in shape, in his job as aprofessional hit-man, murders!"The Teacher" under orders from the mentally deranged and realitychallenged Louie Boffano, who doesn't seem to realize that all this istotally unnecessary, keeps putting the screws on both Annie and her 12year old son Oliver, Joseph Gordon Levitt, which leads Annie to takematters into her own hands. Annie secretly sets up the so full ofhimself "Teacher" in getting him to admit, on a tape recorder she hadhidden, that he and the Cali Cartel are planning to take over LouieBoffano's Mafia operations with him-know to his friends as "CrazyLouie"-getting iced in the process!****SPOILER ALERT****The film goes from the ridicules to the sublime aswere shockingly shown just how off the all "The Teacher" and his bossLouie Boffano really are. After "The Teacher" was set up by his goodfriend, and flunky in the Boffano Family, "Good Time" Eddie, JamesGabdolfini, to be rubbed out he turns the tables on them only to, likehis boss Louie Boffano, still blackmail Annie in him threatening tomurder her her son Oliver for what seems like just for the thrill ofit!The unbelievable ending takes place in of all places the jungles ofGuatemala in South America where Annie with the help of her boyfriendBoone played by a hippie looking Matt Craven-a fellow artist andsculptor like herself-is hiding Oliver by keeping him from gettingkilled by "The Teacher". It was "The Teacher" in overestimating hisobviously low intelligence as well as underestimating Annie'sdetermination, of getting him out of her hair as well as life, who endsup getting all that's coming to him! Which he should have gotten a lotsooner! A big D minus in plain old common sense by him not knowing whento quite when he was in fact way ahead!

2012-04-15 12:57:16

I love 'The Juror'!

Demi Moore is great as a Bohemian single mom and struggling artist living alone with her 12-year-old son (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) in a converted barn in a country suburb of New York. When she becomes a juror in a murder case against a major Mafia boss, her peaceful life is turned upside down by a sociopathic hitman's (Alec Baldwin) obsession with her. Though she knows the mob boss is guilty, she is bullied into providing a verdict of 'not guilty' under threat of her son being killed. I see that some reviewers are 'yawning' that this story has been done before, but Moore and Baldwin give such fantastic performances that it seems like the first time anything of its kind has been done. The actors accomplish making their characters appear very real. Demi seems like she could be a woman who used to live on your block or who you once worked with, and Baldwin is like the living nightmare psycho you hope you'll never meet! Anne Heche is good as Demi's best friend, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt is believable as the typical sweet kid of someone you might know. It is also a scenic, beautiful movie. Filmed partially in upstate New York in what looks like late May/early June, and in Central America, there's plenty of nice scenery. I think this picture is well worth owning and watching again and again.