After his wife (January Jones) is assaulted, a husband (Nic Cage) enlists the services of a vigilante group to help him settle the score. Then he discovers they want a "favor" from him in return.

This is neither Cage's best film or his worst. It is also not his best hair, or his worst. In fact, I may have to give Cage some credit... his acting was far better than this film ended up calling for.

Not that the movie is all bad. Had it been a novel, it would have been a best-selling thriller. But it sort of crumbles as a film for one reason: plot holes. Simon and his cronies are just too powerful, know too much, too soon. It is not adequately explained, and the logical answers that the audience might dream up without evidence only leads to an even wilder conspiracy... in short, try not to think too much while watching this.

The action is good, the humor is decent, and the suspense is top notch -- it is the most tension you will ever feel while watching a man buy a candy bar. But it just does not add up. Good acting, good action and suspense do not make a movie if the story itself is not complete. In short, this film's biggest problem is the lack of a script doctor. A few tweaks, a tightening of events, this could have been a blockbuster and demanded a franchise or sequel.

Justice is a derivative and inept vigilante thriller starring Nicolas Cage showing another example of how far down his career has quickly plummeted to making lower budget movies made more for the VOD market.

Cage plays Will a high school English teacher in a rough inner city school whose wife is violently raped. At the hospital he is met by a mysterious stranger named Simon (Guy Pearce) who tells him that the justice system will let him down and he knows who the rapist is and can have him taken care of. All he wants in return is for Will to do him a favour some time in the future.

It seems Simon is heading a secret and underground vigilante organisation that takes part in revenge justice.

Some time later Will is contacted by Simon who wants him to follow someone and then take action against a sexual deviant. Will has qualms about this but finds himself too deep. Before long he is under suspicion of murder and the person he might be responsible of killing is not a deviant but an investigative reporter on the trail of this group.

Will also realises that this group has wide tentacles with a lot of people belonging and having a secret codeword. Will has few people he can trust, his wife is in danger as Simon goes after Will.

You do wonder why Simon needs Will to kill this deviant? There are others in the group who could had done the job better and neater. Also why did Simon need to frame Will because of his reluctance apart from that it needed to be a necessary plot device.

Rather early on we guess that Simon is unhinged which makes us question why others in his group have not fathomed this.

The plot is mundane, the characters are sketchy, the acting is below par as everybody is only there for the money. Films like Death Sentence starring Kevin Bacon have done this kind of cheap genre film better.

Will Gerard (Nicolas Cage) is an unassuming high school teacher in New Orleans. One night, his wife Laura (January Jones) is brutally raped. At the hospital, Simon (Guy Pearce) claims to represent a few citizen seeking justice. He's willing to seek justice for Will in exchange for some favors. The cryptic favors get serious when Simon asks Will to kill a pedophile. Will tries to talk to the man but he struggles and accidentally kills himself. The man turns out to be respected investigative journalist Alan Marsh and the police are zeroing in on Will.

It tries to be stylized thriller. The basic concept is fine but nothing special. The first problem comes with the candy bar. It's a stupid manufactured story device. It's of no use and only shine a light on how overly written this story is. A simple YES could have been so much more powerful. Instead the audience is forced to wait for the scene to finish. Time and time again, the movie tries too hard. I am glad that Will finally asked for a lawyer at the police station. The writing could have been worst but it's not good. Nick Cage needs to get work with better directors and stop taking these second rate offerings.