An English professor lets a secret organization go after the criminal who raped his wife.

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Will Gerard, an English professor trying to get young people interested in Shakespeare, and his cellist wife are deeply in love. But their lives are forever changed when she is raped by a repeat offender. Still under shock, Will is contacted by Simon, a mysterious but fascinating man who belongs to a secret organization tired of the violence of New Orleans offering to seek revenge by killing the dangerous criminal. Will accepts, not knowing this pact will spiral horribly out of control. Six months later, Simon contacts him again and demands he kill a presumed pedophile...

Seeking Justice is better than its cheap pitch, which sounds like a very bad late movie. Instead, it’s a solid and suspenseful thriller with a well-constructed plot that manages to overcome its faults – Nicolas Cage is not believable as a university professor passionate about the bard, even though his toupé is less ridiculous than in Bad Lieutenant and Next – thanks also to Guy Pearce as the bad guy. Pearce once again proves he is a great actor, whether playing fabulous in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, a man with amnesia in the legendary Memento, a detective in the excellent Animal Kingdom, Edward VII in The King’s Speech, or an ambitious young cop in the superb L.A. Confidential.