By any measure, Bryan Stevenson is a remarkable man: A Harvard-educated lawyer, he's devoted his 30-plus-year career to fighting for social justice and legal reform for the poor, the disenfranchised, and the wrongly convicted, including those sentenced to execution.
The new movie about him, on the other hand, is nothing that radicalJust Mercy follows the activist movie formula with few major missteps, but also precious few surprises.
Michael B. Jordan leads the cast as a young Bryan, recently out of law school and newly arrived in Alabama to start the (still active) Equal Justice Initiative. In his first visit to the local prison, Bryan meets a death-row inmate named Walter "Johnny D." McMillian (Jamie Foxx), who was convicted of murdering a white woman based on flimsy eyewitness testimony, and makes it his mission to set things right for McMillian and others like him. Read more...
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