Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte) and Rupert Ames (Josh Stewart) should have been put away for life, but when Clarence cut a deal with rising prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) to get a death sentence for Rupert, the system showed its flaws. Ten years ago, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) watched helplessly as two violent home invaders murdered his wife and daughter. Gary Gray and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer’s tense tale of vengeance and grief delivers some nasty surprises that send it careening dangerously close to Saw territory (especially early on), it does manage to raise some thought-provoking questions regarding the ethics of the swaggering legal eagles whose actions sometimes prove more self-serving than benevolent.
A highly implausible and surprisingly lurid revenge flick where lawyers and judges stand in for street-dwelling scumbags, Law Abiding Citizen blasts out of the barrel with an unsettlingly intimate act of violence and doesn’t pull any punches in detailing one man’s war against a corrupt justice system.
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