Clint Eastwood's JUROR # 2 (2024)
(Clint voice growling in to the theater) "Hey, you punks, this ain't a sequel to that Demi Moore/Alec Baldwin programmer; I got my own Juror moral ambiguity cooking, damn it! get off my lawn!" (Or maybe that's just my oddball fantasy going on this site...) Anyway, wow, what a way to start off "Noirvember" with a film that could have been made any time in the last 80 years... and that's a good thing to be when done right, and Eastwood does it and then some here! Juror # 2 comes in with a solid pitch that should get anyone with a pulse interested at a studio - and if you have to put it at a movie-comparison level of classic Hollywood, think 12 Angry Men, only instead of Henry Fonda trying to sway a jury but he... woops, probably did actually really kill the person the accused is on trial for - and Eastwood has a script that hits not only the morally and even existentially ambiguous notes that would be music to his craggly ears (for his lead, Nicholas Houl
