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Viola Davis, no matter how amazing she was in “Doubt”, gave an unforgivable performance as the Mayor of Philadelphia in this film. There were elements of the movie, however, that were so ham-fisted and cheesy that I couldn’t possibly ignore them. I did enjoy the “Se7en”-esque trail of gore that Shelton leaves behind as this film progresses. the system battle where the lone man knows the steps that the system will take before they even make them.
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If Rice fails to meet Shelton’s every demand, all those involved in the trial of the Shelton family murders will die.
Beyond a memory foam mattress and nice meals, Shelton makes it clear and he now wants Rice to right the inherent wrongs of the justice system that he works in.
When Rice meets with Shelton in the prison, the inmate offers his confession in exchange for luxury goods in his prison cell. Shelton almost immediately admits involvement in the slaying of his family’s killer, and his held in prison. Nick Rice is the Assistant District Attorney, and the other killer, recently released from prison, winds up brutally murdered.
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This solution is unjust in Shelton’s eyes, but the deal is already done and the more violent of the two murderers will be a free man in a few short years.įast-forward ten years. In hopes to preserve his high conviction rate, Rice strikes a deal with one of the murderers for a light sentence in order to send the other to death row. Jamie Foxx plays Nick Rice, a hotshot lawyer in the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office who takes the case to prosecute the murderers of Shelton’s family. Gerard Butler plays Clyde Shelton, a man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered in the opening scene of the film. Had I paid ten dollars to see this in the theater it might be a different story, but as a rental, “Law Abiding Citizen” will give you $4.50 worth of entertainment. Aspects of the film went about as low as my expectations, but there were parts that I was thoroughly entertained by. Let me start by saying that my expectations going into this viewing were very low. With the release of the DVD & Bluray of “Law Abiding Citizen” this week, I thought it appropriate to take a look at this one and fill you in on what you should expect. Rated R for strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language Saw with a conscience is not what the world needs.Produced by: Gerard Butler, Lucas Foster, Mark Gill, Robert Katz, Alan Siegel, and Kurt Wimmer If the filmmakers meant a word of it, they’d quit making films and do something more useful.
Clyde won’t stop speechifying about doing bad things in the name of the greater good.
Jamie Foxx’s prosecutor (smug, a slow learner) gets a front-row seat to the explosion, as Butler’s Clyde Shelton goes behind bars and into solitary confinement, from where, somehow, he is capable of inflicting enough damage and carnage to terrorize the whole of Philadelphia. Gary Gray and writer Kurt Wimmer peddle cheap, graphic Z-grade revenge thrills dressed up as Knowing Sociopolitical Commentary-as in, the justice system’s rotten, so let’s blow up, then gut, then roast again the whole sumbitch and start from scratch. So much for our sympathy for the leading man, who happens to be Gerard Butler in yet another questionable role. Then: Deals are cut, the murderer walks while his less culpable accomplice is sentenced to death, and the dad wonders, “But what about justice?” And then: A decade passes, dad has seen a Saw or two, and it’s retribution time.
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The movie wastes no time: Before the opening credits, a man watches two home invaders slaughter his wife and daughter-and we don’t even know their names.