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Watch it? Rent it? Skip it? Skip it.

This should be Clint Eastwood’s last film. Mercifully. If you have ever served on a jury or have anything to do with a trial do yourself a favor and don’t watch this. It is insulting to the process much like Gravity was to NASA. It’s just not how things work in a jury. Gravity isnt how it works with NASA either.

But if you go in with the ability to put aside the inaccuracies, errors, and misconceptions in the process it is just a so-so movie. Simmons has an easy and quick out almost close to just a cameo. I love Toni Collette but she is better than this. It is almost as if she was suffering through the entire movie. Messina has a so-so performance.

The story doesn’t flow. It is choppy even though it is 2 hours long. It is crammed adding to the choppiness. At times I wondered if I had slept through a part waking up asking “What did I miss?”. (I think I actually did snooze off for a bit. It is that bad.)

I’m not sure what everyone else was thinking when reviewing this movie. Maybe they never served on a jury. Or maybe they have seen too many crime movies and series thinking they know everything about our judicial system after graduating from Facebook law school.

See it? Rent it? Skip it? Skip it.

At least I got a free charge for my Chevy Bolt at the charging station.

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