2019 Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights tirelessly for Walter with the system stacked against them.
Michael B. Jordan Brie Larson Jamie Foxx O'Shea Jackson Jr. Rafe Spall Rob Morgan Tim Blake Nelson Rhoda Griffis J. Alphonse Nicholson Karan Kendrick Hayes Mercure Lindsay Ayliffe Dominic Bogart Tim Hooper Andrene Ward-Hammond John Lacy Michael Harding Ron Clinton Smith C.J. LeBlanc Kelly Mumme Mallory Hoff Terence Rosemore Charlie Pye Jr. Christopher Wolfe Adam Boyer Jacinte Blankenship Bryan Stevenson Brad Sanders Charmin Lee Show All…
Gil Netter Mike Drake Michael B. Jordan Asher Goldstein Bryan Stevenson Gabriel Hammond Daniel Hammond Charles D. King Niija Kuykendall
Netter Productions Outlier Society Productions Endeavor Content MACRO One Community Participant Warner Bros. Pictures
不完美的正義, Luta por Justiça, La Voie de la Justice, Buscando Justicia, צדק ורחמים, Il diritto di opporsi, În Slujba Dreptății, 以公義之名
You know how you go to like Denny's and the menu is full of pictures and the Moons Over My Hammy you ordered looks pretty much just like the photo and it's nothing special but tastes exactly like it should?
Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
Metacritic Metascore: 68
IMDb: 7.5
86/100
Release Date: 10 January 2020
Distributor: Warner Brothers
Budget: $25M
Worldwide Gross: $50.4M
Total Film Awards: 7
Bryan Stevenson: "The first time I visited Death Row, I wasn't expecting to meet someone the same age as me... from a neighborhood just like ours ... coulda been me, momma."
SYNOPSIS: World-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.
- Source: IMDb
Wow. What a ride.
The book "Just Mercy" is essentially a memoir from Bryan Stevenson about his life, post-Harvard, aiding death row inmates in the South. He spends the bulk of the book on the specific case of Walter McMillian and…
Sometimes there's necessity in predictability.
It's very easy to criticise Just Mercy for being similar, maybe overly so, to so many legal dramas that have proceeded it. Such criticisms are not unwarranted and viewed purely as a piece of entertainment, it's unlikely you'll find anything in Destine Daniel Cretton's film that you haven't seen before.
In terms of its story, however, it carries a message that bears repeating. And it should be repeated, tirelessly, until the world in which we are living in changes. There's a superb moment in this where Michael Harding, playing sheriff Tom Tate, warns Michael B. Jordan (as Bryan Stevenson) that he isn't cruising into his "redneck town" to rid himself of no "racist sheriff".
There's…
If we have to sit through these mediocre films as a consequence for getting to watch Short Term 12, then so be it
I’m surprised this hasn’t garnered more attention. Undoubtedly, the screenplay is heavy on expository sequences and unsubtle imagery, but I was still tremendously moved - and tremendously angered by the injustice, even though I knew most of the story beforehand anyway. And even in the unsubtle imagery, there was such a strong commitment to telling the true story accurately that everything unbelievable becomes more infuriating because it did happen.
Daniel Destin Cretton is not a particularly stylish director - and the direction here lacks some of the quirks and idiosyncrasies of something like Short Term 12 - but his greatest strength lies in his guiding hand over actors. Just put Michael B Jordan and Jamie Foxx in a room, and I’m all in. It’s powerful and drastically empathetic filmmaking from minute one.
✅76%
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Maybe I’m just a sucker for a good, heartfelt, and feel-good story (if it’s handled well). This film will not be winning awards anytime soon, but sometimes a movie doesn’t have to be built for that. They may believe they deserve an award, but it just isn’t going to happen. Nevertheless, Just Mercy did exactly what it was created to do, and that is to tell this story in a (hopefully) true and authentic way. Destin Daniel Cretton showed such promise with Short Term 12. No film from him since has captured that magic, but this does what it intends to do. Is it cliché? Absolutely, and it’s also one of…
"It's not my job to make people happy, it's my job to get justice for my client" - Bryan Stevenson,
Good for him... but, I wish that this film did more and that the style felt more current. It feels like a film you'd show to middle-schoolers.
Read the wikipedia entry on Bryan Stevenson instead... he's an amazing man.
I’d like to start off by saying that I will never understand the pain that the black community has faced. I will continue to emphasize with you all. I also don’t want to seem too preachy, and I’m sorry if I do.
To those who are privileged, please use it. Use it to learn. Use it to listen. Use it to take direct action. Don´t silently like tweets. Go to (peaceful) protests. Spread awareness. Don’t simply post a black square and think ‘welp, my work is done for today.’ Nobody should ever think that. This is not a sprint, it is a marathon. We all must fight for justice today, tomorrow, and for the rest of our lives. If you’re…
oh my god imagine being proud that your town is the town from to kill a mockingbird. that sign may as well have said "famously racist"
It’s so well-intentioned and earnest that I hate how superficial I found it. A movie can mean well but it’s not going to connect without some true grit and emotion. It’s one of those awards bait prestige dramas that leaves me...just drowsy. (Sorry.)
tbh the trailers for this did the film a huge disservice and made it look a lot more corny and bland than it ended up being so i was pleasantly surprised!
