| 88 |
People Weekly Jennifer Wulff
With sharp camera work, pulsating music and no tedious, gimme-an-Emmy closeups, it's like CSI at warp speed. [4 Sep 2006, p.41] |
| 80 |
Orlando Sentinel Hal Boedeker
The premiere suggests that Bruckheimer has added to his lustrous record in crime: He's guilty of being outrageously entertaining again. |
| 75 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
All the bases are covered, and if that doesn't make for the most inventive show, it makes for a quite watchable one. [1 Sep 2006, p.61] |
| 75 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
The larger problem with Justice it that allows the plot to bury the characters. |
| 70 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Fox's strongest newcomer this season. |
| 70 |
Washington Post Tom Shales
A dazzling and gripping crime drama. |
| 70 |
LA Weekly Robert Abele
At the root, this is essentially Perry Mason redux, only the vibe is less ’50s genteel murder mystery than 21st-century shock and awe. |
| 70 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Jerry Bruckheimer's latest fun-to-watch procedural. |
| 60 |
Newark Star-Ledger Alan Sepinwall
Like all the Bruckheimer procedurals... you know what you're getting from the jump: solid but unspectacular acting and storytelling that will leave you satisfied without rocking your world. |
| 60 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
The pieces may be familiar, but there are enough new elements that prevent this series from feeling like a total rip-off. |
| 60 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Despite the intense look at the legal process, the show moves quickly. |
| 60 |
Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart
[It] makes defense work look as sexy as anything on the high-tech "CSI." |
| 60 |
Wall Street Journal Dorothy Rabinowitz
"Justice" chugs along nicely, its plots gratifyingly tense, its dialogue sharp and uncluttered. |
| 60 |
Time James Poniewozik
Justice's legal cases are not especially shocking or original, and the supporting characters are empty suits. But it's fascinating to watch for its style. |
| 60 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Imagine what “Boston Legal” would look like if Jerry Bruckheimer were in charge instead of David E. Kelley. |
| 60 |
Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Despite its jittery camerawork and souped-up graphics, "Justice" is just a reasonably well-made, meat-and-potatoes lawyer show. |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
"Justice" offers slick, efficiently produced whodunit escapism without a whit of real originality or dramatic spontaneity. |
| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle Tim Goodman
The real problem with "Justice" is that the series is very average. |
| 50 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
The format is what carries the day. |
| 50 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
"Justice" is slick, fast-paced and stylish, with enough twists to separate it from the glut of shows in its genre. But it's also one of the most extraordinarily cynical shows to come along in some time. |
| 50 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
With the unvarnished truth dangling like a carrot before a carthorse, there's ample reason for crime-show junkies to cling to "Justice," although some mysteries will be more worth seeing through to the end than others. |
| 40 |
Newsday Verne Gay
While neither awful nor even particularly bad, there is an earnest silliness to the whole thing. |
| 40 |
Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
For all its apparent technical accuracy and some real-world name-dropping, "Justice" feels no more lifelike than "Perry Mason." |
| 38 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
I'm not positive, but I think "Justice" is terrible, at least the first episode. |
| 38 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Tonight's new Fox courtroom drama series, "Justice," has plenty of [gimmicks]. What it doesn't have, though, is a persuasive reason to watch. |
| 30 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
[It] often sounds less like a television drama than a Criminal Procedures 101 lecture delivered at an offshore law school. |
| 30 |
Variety Brian Lowry
All sizzle and no steak, producer Jerry Bruckheimer's latest hour occasionally feels like a parody of courtshows, what with its hyperactive pace, pointless "CSI"-type visual bells and whistles and misdirected premise depicting high-priced defense attorneys as semi-good guys. |
