Justice at any cost.
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
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- Sexual violence
- Body horror
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Contemporary, unpretentious, grave and classical in form.
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- unpretentiousprestige
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
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“Does Gerard Butler steal Law Abiding Citizen from Jamie Foxx?”
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jun 20148/10
You can’t fight fate. Right? Gerard Butler stars as Clyde Shelton, a man forced to not only watch his wife and daughter be raped and murdered in his own home, but to also have to sit there and watch the justice system fail him. So he wages a one man war against pretty much everyone involved. Hoo-Hah! The big hitting critics hated it, with comments ranging from it being sub-normal, preposterous, ugly and morally corrupt, to it being a comic book film of moral hectoring! Naturally, as the critics were at pains to point out that it would, it made a pot load at the box office and is generally well liked by a good portion of the action/revenge/thriller loving populace. There’s always a big grey area with revenge/vigilante movies that really brings out the debate crowd, but what rarely gets said is that through the actions of these cinematic waste layers is the chance for many, many, folk to live vicariously. Yes! 99% of the common man and woman do indeed sit back and trust our respective legal systems to do what’s right and just, but oh how we feel that given similar circumstances we would want to vent spleen with furious anger. Law Abiding Citizen is a riot, at its heart it does have s
Read the whole review on TMDB - vylmenon TMDB · Nov 20246/10
Not the ending I wanted Some movies you want the bad guy to win and this is one of them. There's a few things missing here, like the setup that Clyde is really this smart inventor guy leading a double life. That could've used some secret door behind a front working in a lab kind of shots. And that Nick Rice is actually smarter, cause he wasn't. Other than that, it does keep you on your toes, mostly to see what Clyde comes up with and how he's going to fix the broken justice system.
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Cast
- Jamie FoxxNick Rice
- Gerard ButlerClyde Alexander Shelton
- Colm MeaneyDetective Dunnigan
- Bruce McGillJonas Cantrell
- Leslie BibbSarah Lowell
- Michael IrbyDetective Garza
- Gregory ItzinWarden Iger
- Regina HallKelly Rice
- Emerald-Angel YoungDenise Rice
- Brooke Stacy MillsClyde's Wife
Crew
- F. Gary GrayDirector
- Kurt WimmerWriter
- Jonathan SelaDirector of Photography
- Brian TylerOriginal Music Composer
- Tariq AnwarEditor
- Lucas FosterProducer
- Kurt WimmerProducer
- Mark GillProducer
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