Just Mercy: Not a single nomination, now that’s injustice!
So insight into my sad life is I often go the cinema by myself, take a notebook, and jot down things to remember for when I’m writing these reviews, or for The Reel Easy Podcast (which you guys should be listening to!) About a quarter of the way through this film however, I closed my notebook, turned off my critical brain and really listened to the message and the story this film was telling. That is the first time I have done that since starting The Reel Easy Co. almost a year ago (it’s actually almost time for the anniversary party!) 
Michael B Jordan takes the lead in this movie, a lawyer fresh out of Harvard, who starts a clinic in Alabama - “the home of To Kill A Mockingbird” - helping death row inmates get the representation they require. Based on a true story about defence attorney Bryan Stevenson who defends Walter McCmillian in a case of a young white girls murder he’s already been falsely imprisoned for 18 years ago. Walter is waiting for his execution date and it’s a race against time for Bryan to get him exonerated before the state send him to the electric chair. Critics and reviewers talk about films being “hard hitting” but this film knocked me out as hard a the meteor that took out the dinosaurs. The injustice of the whole thing leaves you dumbstruck and the fact this isn’t up for a single award shows the injustice that is still happening in our award ceremonies today.
Michael B Jordan was bloody fantastic in this film and the best performance I’ve seen out of him yet, which if you’ve been following his career so far, is really saying something. Equally great is Jamie Fox and Brie Larson who flex their award winning muscles very well!
The film turns it up a gear in the theatrics of the courtroom drama that wouldn’t be amiss in a John Grissom novel. With onerous baddies and small characters having their own arch’s, flip flopping from injustice to justice at the drop of a hat, it couldn’t get more gripping.
YOU ALL NEED TO SEE THIS FILM! So I’m giving it a massive rating of 9/10, get your arses to the cinema, and witness story telling at its finest.
I’ve been Christopher Whitmore, thanks for reading.
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