{"id":8201,"date":"2020-01-10T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T13:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2020-01-11T10:24:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T15:24:09","slug":"review-just-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=8201","title":{"rendered":"Review: JUST MERCY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Risk-averse approach lessens impact of a true story of injustice<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-192x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-192x300.png 192w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-656x1024.png 656w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-768x1198.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-400x624.png 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-433x675.png 433w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10-692x1080.png 692w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Man-and-Camera-NO-FIX-5-10.png 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/justmercy1-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/justmercy1-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/justmercy1-400x593.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/justmercy1-455x675.jpg 455w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/justmercy1.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the good intentions of talented director Destin Daniel Cretton (\u201cShort Term 12\u201d), \u201cJust Mercy\u201d  is a watered-down adaptation of the memoir of attorney Bryan Stevenson.  By stark contrast, Stevenson\u2019s vibrant, revealing source material is about the systemic decay that consumed America\u2019s criminal justice system in the 1980s and beyond.<br><br>This movie has nothing of the book\u2019s considerable breadth. Instead, by focusing almost exclusively on one of  Stevenson\u2019s most egregious cases, the narrative gets lost in the garden variety and sanctimonious trappings associated with typical courtroom dramas.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Where Stevenson\u2019s book was chocked full of startling facts and figures that vividly put the system on trial, Cretton\u2019s script, he\u2019s co-written with Andrew Lanham (see \u201cThe  Shack\u201d), is lifeless.&nbsp;<br><br>Read Jonathan&#8217;s full review online and in print in the Times-Herald: <a href=\"https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/01\/09\/just-mercy-risk-averse-approach-lessons-impact-of-a-true-story-of-injustice\/\">https:\/\/newnan.com\/2020\/01\/09\/just-mercy-risk-averse-approach-lessons-impact-of-a-true-story-of-injustice\/<\/a><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overly familiar adaptation of searing indictment of justice system lacks emotional punch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[1896,1689,1897,1895,1894,342,1893,423],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-alabama","tag-courtroom-drama","tag-death-row","tag-destin-daniel-cretton","tag-injustice","tag-jamie-foxx","tag-just-mercy","tag-michael-b-jordan","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8211,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions\/8211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}