Deadly Justice
Deadly Justice
“Deadly Justice,” is a B-grade thriller film, hackneyed with a cliché storyline, poor editing, subpar scoring and insipid performances in it to the point that one starts to wonder — where did the money to hustle the production, or at least make it less awful, go?
It was filmed and set in Biloxi. Didn’t the state chip in on this? Did Brett Favre snatch that money too?
There are slight Southern accents, contributed by local extras in a courtroom drama about a judge in prison, out for “revenge” against the prosecutor and police chief who convicted him, and may be involved in the conspiracy.
Corin Nemec played this Deep South ‘Deadly Justice’ storyline where crime series anchor would go to ‘gotcha’ tactics to get a case he covers reopened. Guarantees lots of plot holes, hilarious stupidity over how people react to crime and clumsy attempts at comedy.
The cast doesn’t help even the speaking parts, most of the actors are professionals, some don’t need to. The rest of the cast? Their attempts were simply pathetic.
Kelly Sullivan stars as Holly, a former district attorney turned private attorney, who ventured into a new area catching the attention of Dale Jones (Brian Krause) ‘Real Crimes’ expose. A judge went to jail for stalking and killing his wife, a cynical story that even led to a movie being adapted from it which we have sampled as being a much worse than real movie being made.
“Real Crime” seems to be of the opinion that Holly and her retired police chief Dad (Marco St. John) were overzealous in their prosecution of that judge.
Like all iterations of the Parker Bros board game, the outcomes were not ever in the best interests of the parties involved nonetheless Holly was awkwardly asked out by the host after the show. It didn’t stop there, once Holly gets back, someone uses a taser on her and then leaves a note that reads: “It’s your turn to lose someone.”
124 Holly, who used to be a district attorney, does not report this offense to the authorities. “Common sense” does not apply any longer, to put it mildly, as it looks like there is a mad taserer who was kind enough to look for Holly’s assistant (Christiana Leucas) and also just tried to pay a courtesy call to Holly’s living father and few more people.
That new guy in town, the second to make an advance on holly at their first meeting? Perhaps overly concerned Theo who according to the screenwriter and “Stargate” actor (Nemec) is quite familiar with was. Also perhaps a key player could be the judge that is somewhat Duck Dynasty (Billy Miller) and is currently expendable.
As the number of odds faced by Holly increases we somehow wish that she at least involves the cops in this, or her father does so. Not that we are hopeful about that being of any help.
One interesting thing about the casting. The script doesn’t elaborate the way Henk and Nemec looks like brothers as they could be brothers but rather looks way too similar. That is an interesting twist in the plot that is not given much treatment. And it leaves one wondering whether two weather-beaten fifty blokes would stand a chance with the well accomplished and beautiful single lady lawyer.
Maybe. But then, she has never ever left Biloxi.
Sullivan who goes a long way back to the movie adaptation of the musical ‘The Producers’ and was in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” and TV series “Never Have I Ever” almost finishes this saga with some of her dignity intact.
Others not so much.
That moment we hear someone yell, ‘Is anyone believing any of this dross’ during an actual live Real Crime TV show in the footage. That is the most succinct sentence to review the footage in one line.
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- Genre: Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: Karyn Klein
- Cast: Kelly Sullivan, Brian Krause, Corin Nemec
