**SPOILERS** If you don't take the film "The Juror" seriously you can actually find it quit entertaining in just how unintentionally funny and campy it really is. You begin to notice that there's something very strange in the film after the person big shot Mafia bigwig Louie Boffano aka the big Spaghetti-O , Tony La Bianco, whom Juror #1 Annie Lierd, Demi Moore, was blackmailed into getting off on a murder charge got acquitted. Boffano was charged in ordering the execution style slaying of fellow Mafia boss Salvator "Big Sal" Riggio and his grandson Tommy who just happened to be an innocent bystander.
It seemed that "Big Sal" was deadly serious in being against the Mafia, or his fellow Mafia Don Louie Boffano, in making a deal with the Colombian Cali Drug Cartel which in effect had him whacked. With Boffano now acquitted he, and his goons, still keep blackmailing Annie which can only attract attention on them which is something they don't need or want. The guy doing most of the blackmailing is Vincent "The Teacher", Alec Baldwin, who freelances as a hit-man for the Boffano Family between affairs with those, women of course, whom he's blackmailing like Annie. And in the case of Annie's good friend the awfully cute and brainy Juiet (Anne Heche), who's a doctor by profession, "The Teacher" in keeping himself in shape, in his job as a professional hit-man, murders!
"The Teacher" under orders from the mentally deranged and reality challenged Louie Boffano, who doesn't seem to realize that all this is totally unnecessary, keeps putting the screws on both Annie and her 12 year old son Oliver, Joseph Gordon Levitt, which leads Annie to take matters into her own hands. Annie secretly sets up the so full of himself "Teacher" in getting him to admit, on a tape recorder she had hidden, that he and the Cali Cartel are planning to take over Louie Boffano's Mafia operations with him-know to his friends as "Crazy Louie"-getting iced in the process!
****SPOILER ALERT****The film goes from the ridicules to the sublime as were shockingly shown just how off the all "The Teacher" and his boss Louie Boffano really are. After "The Teacher" was set up by his good friend, and flunky in the Boffano Family, "Good Time" Eddie, James Gabdolfini, to be rubbed out he turns the tables on them only to, like his boss Louie Boffano, still blackmail Annie in him threatening to murder her her son Oliver for what seems like just for the thrill of it!
The unbelievable ending takes place in of all places the jungles of Guatemala in South America where Annie with the help of her boyfriend Boone played by a hippie looking Matt Craven-a fellow artist and sculptor like herself-is hiding Oliver by keeping him from getting killed by "The Teacher". It was "The Teacher" in overestimating his obviously low intelligence as well as underestimating Annie's determination, of getting him out of her hair as well as life, who ends up getting all that's coming to him! Which he should have gotten a lot sooner! A big D minus in plain old common sense by him not knowing when to quite when he was in fact way ahead!
It seemed that "Big Sal" was deadly serious in being against the Mafia, or his fellow Mafia Don Louie Boffano, in making a deal with the Colombian Cali Drug Cartel which in effect had him whacked. With Boffano now acquitted he, and his goons, still keep blackmailing Annie which can only attract attention on them which is something they don't need or want. The guy doing most of the blackmailing is Vincent "The Teacher", Alec Baldwin, who freelances as a hit-man for the Boffano Family between affairs with those, women of course, whom he's blackmailing like Annie. And in the case of Annie's good friend the awfully cute and brainy Juiet (Anne Heche), who's a doctor by profession, "The Teacher" in keeping himself in shape, in his job as a professional hit-man, murders!
"The Teacher" under orders from the mentally deranged and reality challenged Louie Boffano, who doesn't seem to realize that all this is totally unnecessary, keeps putting the screws on both Annie and her 12 year old son Oliver, Joseph Gordon Levitt, which leads Annie to take matters into her own hands. Annie secretly sets up the so full of himself "Teacher" in getting him to admit, on a tape recorder she had hidden, that he and the Cali Cartel are planning to take over Louie Boffano's Mafia operations with him-know to his friends as "Crazy Louie"-getting iced in the process!
****SPOILER ALERT****The film goes from the ridicules to the sublime as were shockingly shown just how off the all "The Teacher" and his boss Louie Boffano really are. After "The Teacher" was set up by his good friend, and flunky in the Boffano Family, "Good Time" Eddie, James Gabdolfini, to be rubbed out he turns the tables on them only to, like his boss Louie Boffano, still blackmail Annie in him threatening to murder her her son Oliver for what seems like just for the thrill of it!
The unbelievable ending takes place in of all places the jungles of Guatemala in South America where Annie with the help of her boyfriend Boone played by a hippie looking Matt Craven-a fellow artist and sculptor like herself-is hiding Oliver by keeping him from getting killed by "The Teacher". It was "The Teacher" in overestimating his obviously low intelligence as well as underestimating Annie's determination, of getting him out of her hair as well as life, who ends up getting all that's coming to him! Which he should have gotten a lot sooner! A big D minus in plain old common sense by him not knowing when to quite when he was in fact way ahead!