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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonSeeking Justice is the kind of effective middle-range pulp thriller that has lately become an endangered species.
- 50Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezEventually, though, Seeking Justice devolves into the usual business of chases and elaborate double-crosses that leave behind all vestiges of realism for the sake of popcorn thrills.
- 40EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanAn unsuspenseful thriller with shades of "Death Wish." Nicolas Cage's return to New Orleans doesn't even have a hallucinatory iguana to recommend it.
- Neither the script's conspiracies nor Nicolas Cage's performance is weird enough to trump the film's generic feel.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanCage and the always-intense Pearce keep this thing going, but even they seem to know the ultimate destination is a bargain bin.
- 38Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertHere is a story hammered together from discards at the Lunacy Factory. Attempting to find something to praise, I am reduced to this: Cage's performance is not boring.
- 25Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerThe film's tossed-off look and clunky editorial construction are still secondary to the sheer silliness of its story.
- 16The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinTo paraphrase a famous Mae West wisecrack, when Cage is good, he's very good, and when he's bad, he's better. Here, however, he's just plain lousy, and like the film he so passively carries, that's no fun at all.