REVIEW: ‘Juror No. 2’ offers sufficient courthouse tension

Clint Eastwood’s films often have the protagonist in precarious situations and his new movie is no different.

Eastwood’s latest has Nicholas Hoult starring as Justin Kemp, a man in quite the conundrum. At first glance, things seem fine for Justin, as he’s in a happy marriage with a pregnant wife and a good job who’s simply called up for jury duty. The problem is the case he ends up assigned to.

Justin has to be a juror on a murder case involving domestic violence which resulted in the death of a woman, with the defendant in the case being her boyfriend (Gabriel Basso). However, around the time of the woman’s death, Justin was driving home on a rainy night and hit something with his car.

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