Runaway Jury

A decent caper film about a plot to hijack a jury and then sell it to the highest bidder. John Cusack and Rachel Weisz are bizarre and engaging as the young lovers who slyly manipulate the jury. Dustin Hoffman and Gene Hackman chew major scenery as opposing counsel in a bidding war for the justice. Loaded with twists and turns, and with just enough sadistic cruelty to satisfy the average American or Armenian, Runaway Jury is like the opposite of the Bush administration, in that it suffers from too much reliance on concept and not enough on actual violence.