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| | Description | Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton's crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead. |  |
| | Product Details | | Actors: | Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis, Michael Gambon | | Format: | Color, Widescreen | | Language: | English | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment | | Run Time: | 108 minutes | | Blu-ray Release Date: | February 16, 2010 | | Average Customer Rating: | based on 241 reviews |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 241 customer reviews )
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39 of 51 found the following review helpful:
Pretty Good!!! Dec 29, 2009
By Pumpkin Man This movie was a lot better than I had expected. To me, it was like a mix of 'Saw' and 'Max Payne. Gerard Butler does an awesome job as a psychotic man with nothing to lose. Ten years after a home invasion that leaves his wife and daughter dead, Clyde Shelton returns to seek true justice. I love when he dismembers the man who murdered them. When Clyde is sent to jail, people are still dying in mysterious ways, and Nick Rice tries to stop it. When Rice interrogates Clyde, he wants something in return such as his iPod, and a steak. Soon, nobody feels safe leaving their homes, because they don't know where or when Clyde will strike next. Does he have an accomplice? I highly recommend LAW ABIDING CITIZEN!!!
28 of 37 found the following review helpful:
Had the ending been different it would have been 5 stars May 17, 2010
By Serrell Ross Overall, a great movie up until the final 10 minutes or so. A different ending would have gotten a 5 star rating.
9 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Go to Jail Apr 02, 2010
By Sky I actually got Law Abiding Citizen by accident from Netflix. I was supposed to get 2012, but oddly it was Law Abiding Citizen in the 2012 case. They sent me out 2012 when I reported the issue and I watched that first. Oy, what a mistake that was, because 2012 wasn't a Disaster Movie it was a movie disaster! Anyway...
Law Abiding Citizen was a lot better than 2012. In fact as the movie played out, I thought to myself, "what a great movie." Even as the credits rolled I felt thoroughly entertained by the movie I had just watched. It had a lot of action, suspense, and it kept me guessing right up to the very end.
Then as I reflected on the film I thought more about how silly the premise of the movie is and how far-fetched what the antihero (Gerard Butler) pulls off really is. I'd love to go into detail, but I'm struggling to do so without giving away the critical twists and turns of the movie.
So let me just say this: with Law Abiding Citizen you get a pretty decent thriller about a guy (Butler) that you don't want to mess with who a couple home-invaders do indeed mess with. The bad guys get caught and Butler allows the DA (Jamie Foxx) to exact this great country's due process on the bad guys...which fails. So Butler sets a plan to take out the bad guys himself and anyone else that was involved in the failure of Due Process of Law.
But man, the way this guy chooses to make his point, and the way he ultimately carries it out are where you'll be saying, "Hold on a second there." So check your brain at the door as I did, sit back and enjoy. It's like the small rollercoaster in the amusement park...it's fun while you're riding it, but after you get off you realize it wasn't that great.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Very violent vengeance viewing Jan 25, 2012
By Brad Smith This one is a variation on the old-fashioned vengeance theme, with a surviving family man seeking to rub out anyone who had anything to do with his family's demise. That means the entire criminal justice system, which he thinks did him wrong. As this goes on, it appears that he is also a genius at killing other people himself, as he picks them off one by one from prison, using his highly developed skills. Despite several script holes and a huge lack of lgic to the whole thing, the movie does move along at a fast clip. You will be forced to watch one man cut up with ssaws, and another stabbed in the jugular with a T-bone steak bone, as well as a woman's head blown off by an exploding cellphone. If you like that sort of "entertainment," then watch.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Yet another revenge flick Jul 13, 2010
By K. Swanson It's got a few twists and some stomach-turning violence and it's just another revenge flick in the end. And the end is so boring to boot. When a movie starts off with the killing and rape of the hero's loved ones, it really doesn't matter much what's next: the writer has already signified that he's lazy.
Add some good actors (Meaney, Butler) and a fair actor trying way too hard (Foxx), saddle them with some insipid dialogue, kill a bunch of people, add a dash of torture porn, throw in some half-baked cries for justice, and bake at 350 for 108 minutes.
Remove and let sit and realize you're looking at something that really ain't very tasty.
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