Incredibly the 95-year-old Hollywood legend is still working, with his latest directorial effort hitting cinemas last year.
Juror No 2 is an edge-of-your-seat courtroom thriller about a murder trial juror who realises he was responsible for the victim’s death.
Being Clint Eastwood, the icon attracted some serious acting talent for this modestly budgeted production.
Nicholas Hoult takes the title role as a man with a heavily pregnant wife who soon realises that he didn’t hit a deer one dark night on the road but, in fact, a woman out in the rain.
Realising his terrible conundrum as a juror on what should have been his trial, Justin confides in his Alcoholics Anonymous lawyer buddy, played by Kiefer Sutherland.
Yet the dilemma is further complicated by the fact that he’d been in a bar, considering having a drink before leaving it, and accidentally hitting a woman over a bridge with his car. The lawyer tells him that no jury would believe that Justin wasn’t drink driving and would face 30 years to life if the truth came out. As a result, Juror No.2 spends the rest of the nail-biting trial, in which the dead woman’s gangster boyfriend is facing life without parole, trying to convince the jury that the accused is innocent. Twists and turns dominate a plot involving excellent performances, particularly from Toni Collette’s prosecutor and JK Simmons’ juror, which makes for an enthralling thriller.
Clint Eastwood’s Juror No 2 is streaming on NOW.