The Outcast

In 2002 Sandra Bullock starred in Murder by Numbers. In this movie two high school kids, Justin and Richard, team up to perform the perfect murder. Both these high school students are rich and feel that no one cares about them. Mayweather (Sandra Bullock) is the detective that finds the girl the two boys’ murder. She deals with memories from the past as she is working on this case. Mayweather knows that these two boys killed the girl, but her partner thinks it is the school janitor. Through a series of events Mayweather manages to get her partner to believe her. Mayweather follows the boys to their hide out without her partner. When she arrives Justin is yelling at Richard that they need to give themselves up, but Richard will not listen. Mayweather busts in on them when they are about to kill each other. Richard takes off with the gun and tries to shoot Mayweather, but Justin jumps in front of her. Mayweather take Justin to safety, then takes off after Richard. Mayweather chases Richard onto the deck. The deck collapses and Richard falls off into the water and dies. Back up finally arrives and take Justin into custody, knowing that he was the one that pulled the trigger.

This was another amazing movie of Sandra Bullock’s. Her character was once again a tough cop, with a troubled background. She has to work through the pain and memories from her past, in order to solve the murder. This was an excellent movie of hers, but not one of my favorites.

Never back down

A Time to Kill was filmed in 1996. The movie starts out with two guys brutally beating a raping a young black girl named Tonya. Tonya’s father seeks help from Jake Brigance, a young white lawyer, to convict the men that raped his daughter. Carl Lee, Tonya’s father, goes to the court house and opens fire and kills both the rapist.  Ellan Roark (Sandra Bullock) is a young college student that comes to Jake and asks to help with the case. The case continues, but much harm is brought to Jake and his family. The threats and attacks get to be too much that he has to send his wife and daughter away. When the trail is about to end Roark is kidnapped and taken to the middle of nowhere, where she is beaten and left for dead. She is saved by an informant, Tim. When Carl Lee’s last trail date comes up, he get up on the stand and tells the jury how he felt about his daughter beat and raped. When the jury comes back from making their decision, he is proclaimed not guilty.

This movie was excellent. Roark (Sandra Bullock) is a very strong willed lady. After being beaten she gets right back to doing her job on the case. She lets nothing stop her in this movie!