“Juror Number 2” is a film that does not give up even for a moment, but without special effects, only with a story that is as uncertain as it is believable and true.
Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), a former recovering alcoholic, now married to a pregnant wife (Zoey Deutch), is summoned to court as a juror in a murder case. The case seems simple: a young woman named Kendall Carter, after arguing in a pool bar with her boyfriend, got drunk walking in the water and was found dead under a bridge Her boyfriend James Sythe (Gabriel Basso), who was seen arguing in the club’s car park, is not just a nice guy, he has a history of violence and beatings so he is arrested and accused of killing him after the argument. But Justin, for a reason impossible to reveal without spoilers, finds himself in a moral crisis because he knows Sythe is innocent. For him there is only one path to take: to cast the proverbial ‘legitimate doubt’ on the case among the jurors. Meanwhile, the prosecuting attorney, Faith Killebrew (Toni Colette), is too busy campaigning for district attorney not to turn a blind eye and try to at least get Sythe guilty.
Justin, overcome with guilt, tries to convince the eleven other jurors that the accused is innocent, thereby multiplying jury sessions to infinity with the prospect to reach majority sooner or later. But things in this classically structured psychological thriller, which can’t help but remind you of Sidney Lumet’s ‘The Jury’, take a strange turn until the dramatic ending.
2024-11-14 05:04:00
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