Juror No. 2: At the age of 94, Clint Eastwood will make his last film! A stylish outing?

It is an event, perhaps the end of an era in the world of cinema. Clint Eastwood, a Hollywood icon if ever there was one, is making his last feature film as a director at the age of 94. Like Sidney Lumet’s Twelve Angry Men, Jury No. 2 is in line with the great trial films.

The story follows Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult), a young father who is chosen to be a jury in the trial of a man suspected of murdering his partner on the side of the road one rainy evening.

However, the hero does not sleep peacefully. A few weeks earlier, on the same road, on the same evening, a car crashed into something. What if Justin was responsible for the murder?

With this crazy but terrifyingly effective story, Clint Eastwood knows how to attract the attention of the audience. It offers a disturbing closed session questioning the public about what to believe or not.

Exciting thriller

Juror #2 It’s a fascinating story because it doesn’t hold all the answers, just like a film like Justin Triet’s Anatomy, which leaves the viewer free to imagine and interpret. This is the whole principle of cinema.

The staging is simple, consisting mainly of still shots, but the age of the director cannot be forgotten. The strength of the feature film rests in part on the performances of its actors, starting with Toni Collette, excellent as a determined lawyer and Nicholas Hoult.

The film becomes really fascinating when the twelve jurors argue, question and insult each other to make the right choice. Using concrete arguments, personal testimonies and theories, they try to reach the truth. But the truth is much more elusive than it seems, and that’s the whole point of this thriller.

The last movie… really?

Juror #2 So it’s billed as his directorial final film, but what is it really? Could Clint Eastwood have contradicted himself and continued his career? A post published on X on October 15, accompanied by a photo, casts doubt:Back to work, reviewing scripts in his offices in Malpaso, October 2024…“

Producer Tim Moore, who has worked with Eastwood for 23 years, takes the microphone. term At the premiere of the film on October 28: “who knows He has been saying this for a long time. At the age of 94, he is still making films. I always told him I would retire early. And I haven’t retired yet.”

Despite everything, the director did not attend the premiere of his film. A noticeable but understandable absence. If Jury No. 2 really sounds like the death knell of his career, Clint Eastwood is saying goodbye to a beautiful exit from the stage.

You can see Clint Eastwood’s Jury No. 2 in theaters.