Juror No. 2

Journalist Jim Kemp (Nicholas Hoult) finds himself called up for jury duty just as his heavily pregnant wife Allison (Zoey Deutch) is due. He tries to use this as a reason to be passed over but ends up assigned to a high profile murder case.

Local politically ambitious ADA Killebrew (Toni Collette) is urging for a speedy conviction of a known ne'er-do-well, partly to promote her "tough on crime" election credentials, and most of the other jurors are of like mind.

Kemp on the other hand quickly becomes convinced the accused is innocent.

Clint Eastwood's courtroom drama plays around with the limitations of jury trial: lots of them just want to get it over with and some have indirect history or life experience that make them swift to draw conclusions about the accused.

Running alongside this is a highly contrived "like something from a movie" premise that connects Kemp directly with the trial.

It's very traditional unsensational filmmaking: you could have made this story any time in the last 60-75 years without changing much beyond the cars people drive and the existence of mobile phones, although they barely feature.

Hard to know what to say really: a very measured piece of drama that did what I expected well, 7/10.