Beautiful, moving film.
... View MoreIt’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
... View MoreNot sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.
... View MoreA film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
... View MoreIf Hardcastle and McCormick symbolized the Reagan era with flashy soundtracks and fast cars and so forth, then Dark Justice sort of presaged the end of the Reagan-Bush era, where a judge has to take matters into his own hands big time and no questions asked.For me Dark Justice is a guilty pleasure, and you can sort of imagine there are some judges out there who wish they could execute justice beyond the robes, ensuring confidence in the justice system after all. It was a pleasure seeing Judge Nicholas Marshall and his team of experts get their way in the end.The first series was filmed in Barcelona, with the second and third series moving to LA. Judge Marshall was played by Ramy Zada in season 1, and then Bruce Abbott (husband of Kathleen "The Doors" Quinlan) in seasons 2 and 3. None of this two Darrins like in Bewitched I guess.
... View MoreLoved this show! I thought Bruce Abbott was perfection in the role: a true Dark Knight, with a sense of humor. The show should have lasted at least twice as long as it did, especially when one considers the boring, imitative, humorless CSI-type clones that infest today's schedule. (Not "NCIS", though: that has a lot of the same sensibility as DJ.) Dick Moon, Clayton Gibbs and Janet Gunn were likewise terrific, and the writing was clever and witty. Some of the plot twists were hilarious, and I never found it boring. Is it still not yet available on DVD? Because I would buy it in a heartbeat...I taped a bunch of them, but DVDs are so much better than homemade.Oh,and by the way, Bruce's hair was pinned up for the courtroom sequences and left in its natural long state otherwise.
... View MoreNick was clearly a highly successful judge to have made it from cop to District Attorney to Your Honor in such a short time. He was supposed to die in the bombing, but neither he nor the bomber had any way of knowing his wife and daughter would take the wired car before him. That incident by itself did not change his purpose it was the outcome of the trial that set the tone for his double life. The judge recruited some lower-level offenders (which he was clearly able to sentence more easily) for an unusual form of community service: join his leather-clad vigilante patrol the Night Watchmen to bring down those who were able to use legal loopholes to get off scot-free (as did the bomber). He still operated from the bench by day, except that he warned those he knew were guilty: justice is blind, but it sees in the dark. By night, off came the glasses, down came his hair, and the suit was replaced by a leather outfit. And off they went on their motorcycles, to target the antagonist.
... View MoreI just recently discovered this show and I really like it a lot. The story is different from other shows on TV right now. It has some comedy and drama and a lot of action, and all the actors just seem to go well together. I really like Bruce Abbott in the title role. I didn't know it was on a few years ago, I thought it was a new show. Silly me. I like it anyway and hope it stays on long enough for me to tape several of the episodes. (Unless they are available on VHS!)
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