Law Abiding Citizen

I remember seeing the trailer and thinking that this would be a great flick. I thought Jamie Foxx would make the perfect arrogant Lawyer type.

As the movie progresses, you can see that he is more concerned with his career than seeking Justice which you hope will lead to a humbling experience for him later on.

As the movie progresses, early on you can see that his actions have come back to haunt him but then...it stops.

No Lessons, he is still an ass at the end and learns nothing.

What at first seems to start as a morality play soon devolves into an action flick with a preposterous "twist" which destroys any suspense for the second half because it is so implausible.

It seems like they did test screenings and then altered the script/ending to please a focus group, which has resulted in an ultimately empty and unsatisfying movie experience.

It would have been so much better to have had a climactic scene between Foxx and Butler where Foxx's character would break down and apologize for failing Butler's character but he doesn't.

So in the end, the main protagonist(s)(Is it Foxx or is it Butler???) ultimately lose.

Foxx's character loses by ultimately learning nothing about being a parasite racking up convictions by brokering unfair deals to further his career and Butler loses his family and proper justice by not having Foxx's character own up to his failings as a public servant.

It would be interesting to see if the DVD has alternate endings that may have been more satisfying to the viewer.. Also I recommended Download Free Long Weekend Movie

Law Abiding Citizen is a decent film if not for the amateur ending. The story's good and that's something one would expect from the film's writer, Kurt Wimmer.

Gerard Butler plays Clyde Shelton, a family man forced to witness the brutal murder of his family. A flaw in the justice system lets the killer go free and Shelton takes the law into his own hands. Shelton threatens to kill more people if the justice system is not corrected and he makes his demands to Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), the prosecutor who must stop Shelton before more innocent people die.

The movie picks up after Clyde Shelton's first murder. Shelton readily admits to killing the man who murdered his wife and daughter. Now in prison, Shelton makes demands to prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) or he threatens to kill people. While in prison.

Gerard Butler's performance is fantastic and I felt like it was comparable to Heath Ledger's Joker as the movie's bad guy who got all the attention. Butler is very convincing as a cunning madman who only wants to see the world share his misery.

The two disappointments in the film are Jamie Foxx, who is usually reliable, and of course the poor ending to an otherwise good film. This might be confusing but the movie's ending is actually quite fitting. The movie could have ended a la 'Silence of the Lambs'.

Instead it saved us the dreaded prequel/sequel to look forward to. Hopefully.. Also I recommended Download Free Perfect Murder, A Movie