Juror #2: Clint Eastwood’s ‘cleverly constructed’ courtroom drama is ‘rock solid’

“What are the chances, eh?” talked about Ryan Gilbey in The Guardian. “First you get picked for jury duty even though your pregnant wife might deliver your child before you can deliver a verdict.” Then, you realise that you by myself know for certain that the defendant accused of abolish is innocent – “because you are the guilty party. Small world!” That is the setup for “Juror #2”, directed “with intermittent drollery” by Clint Eastwood.

The film’s protaganist, Justin, is played by Nicholas Hoult, who proves a “perfect fit for the everyman whose secrets emerge in conflicting flashbacks”. We learn that after Justin modified into riding dwelling one evening, he hit what he thought on the time modified into a deer – but which he starts to suspect modified into, in actuality, a girl, and the victim in this case. Suspense is “kept on a low flame, but the film offers cosy pleasures”, and it is nice to look for Hoult reunited with Toni Collette (the prosecuting criminal legit), who 20-plus years ago played his mother in “About a Boy”.