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Law Abiding Citizen |  | Actors: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis, Michael Gambon
Studio: Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  192 reviews
Sales Rank: 489
Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Running Time: 108 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: ANBD80102D
UPC: 013138010292
EAN: 0013138010292
ASIN: B002XMGGK6
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: February 16, 2010
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Product Description
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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The legal thriller meets the serial-killer shocker in Law Abiding Citizen. The story begins when home invaders kill Clyde Shelton's wife and daughter. The bereaved father (played by a thoroughly unsympathetic Gerard Butler) looks to slick Philly prosecutor Nick Rice (a low-key Jamie Foxx) to see that they receive the maximum sentence. Instead, the murderer, Ames, testifies against his accomplice, Darby, who gets the chair, while he gets 10 years. Upon his release, Ames' mutilated body turns up in an abandoned warehouse, and all roads lead to Shelton. Rice attempts to defend him, but his client makes it impossible--Shelton wants to go to prison--so he does time, but then members of Rice’s legal team start to die. The attorney suspects Shelton, but can't connect him to the crimes, so he races against the clock to save the lives of his assistant, Sarah (Leslie Bibb), D.A. Jonas (Bruce McGill), and his own wife and child. The movie may sound like a Yank reboot of the Japanese chiller Cure, in which an inmate kills from inside institutional walls, but plays more like a mash-up between The Silence of the Lambs, without the psychological complexity, and The Devil's Advocate, without the cynical giggles. F. Gary Gray got his start with hip-hop videos and urban action flicks, like Set It Off, until he hit the big time with his remake of The Italian Job. Law Abiding Citizen is a disappointing muddle from a director who's done better in the past and will surely do better in the future. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Good premise bad execution July 20, 2010
Movie Mania (Southern Calfornia)
What I hate more than a bad movie is one that had a great premise and wastes it.
This is a simple plot. A man, Clyde Shelton, feels that he was denied justice over the death of his wife and daughter and wants to punish those that were responsible. But what happens is the ADA, Nick Rice, who prosecuted the case with an eye more on his win lose ratio, becomes the hero and victim of the his ambition becomes the villian. About 10 minutes is used to set up the story but there is no transition to show or justify anything. All of a sudden the ADA is caring and the victim becomes a psychopath.
Beyond that there are key plot points that are simply wrong.
It is stated that Clyde bought a number of properties in the area under his own name but transferred title to a dummy Panamanian company. Therefore, they cannot locate them because of protections by the Panamanian government. The first part of this is wrong. If he bought them under his name, they can find the properties as the names of all previous owners remain attached to the properties forever. This is a simple computer search. Additionally, if you have the name of the Panamainian shell company, it would be listed on numerous public records including property tax records!
Second, Nick gets a list of amounts paid by the dummy corp and then compare them to the sale prices of commercial properties. By doing this he locates a property next to the prison that Clyde is being held. This would be impossible. It is obvious that the writer never purchased a piece of property! The check you write at closing is not the purchase price of the property but a net amount, purchase price less deposit plus closing costs, etc. It is never the exact purchase price.
Finally, Clyde is suppose to be a genius. Therefore, if he planted a bomb, he would have put tamper guards which would have made it impossible for them to move the bomb even a few inches let alone many miles accross town.
These a the worst plot points. There are just too many to list.
Add to this a mediocre performance by Jamie Foxx and a confused performance by Gerrard Butler and you have movie that is a waste of time.
 Suspensefull July 14, 2010
Ruby Gentile (Cordova, TN)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie was amazing, keep my attention the whole time. Definitely worth watching over and over again.
 Yet another revenge flick July 13, 2010
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
Disappointing... July 11, 2010
A guy from brooklyn (Brooklyn, NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The first half of the movie was pretty good and had an interesting premise. However it got very unrealistic towards the end...
 Far-fetched but riveting nonetheless... July 11, 2010
B. Hambrick (Indiana, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
As some have said previously, the film starts out good but as the story unravels it becomes pretty absurd. Despite that, it's a good thriller that had me on edge right up to the end. Not to mention the obvious eye candy of Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler!!
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