伊维格市发生了一件女童凶杀案，声名显赫的法律系教授阿姆斯壮，接到死刑犯巴比的请求信，声称当年是屈打成招认罪，阿姆斯壮来到小镇重审当年轰动一时的谋杀案，循线追查下真凶呼之欲出，剧情急转直下。 　　A disappointingly pedestrian and predictable thriller score from James Newton Howard, Just Cause further suffers from Varese Sarabande's ill-informed decision to sequence the music out of chronological order, frontloading the disc with the explosive action themes that don't appear on screen until the film's climax. Writing for orchestra and electronics, Howard focuses as much on the film's psychological gamesmanship as on its physical action, composing a series of quasi-mystical themes that are more about function than form. The melodies are sorely lacking in substance, and no amount of brass and string eruptions can make a difference.