Runaway Jury - Old School Movie Review #3

I had not seen this movie, or so I thought, as we started it. I love Grisham books and started to read this one, but I never finished it. I love the way the stories unfold in his books and thought that would be fun to see. He gives you the important information late in the game so that it is a fun discovery process as you seem to gain understanding at the same time as the characters you are watching. It was as if the story was told from the perspective of the antagonist because we don't know the plan either. It was a little like Ocean's 11 or something: when there is a heist and we see the plan, but some of it had to be explained after or it would have lost it's dramatic effect. This movie feels like that most of the time.

This film was just an interesting look at the structure of storytelling. It would be fun to tear the story apart of this one and see how he may have written it. The author obviously knows what is going on, but doesn't share everything. I wonder if he writes it and then deletes information. Or thought about it like a movie and how he would have shown it to us visually to keep us engaged.