This absurd vigilante drama pretends to be a trial and advances step by step as angry «citizen» Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler of 300) takes revenge on prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx). But director F. Gary Gray and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer distort the details and undermine the film`s dark determination with ridiculously implausible developments. Plot hole: Immediately after Jamie Foxx finds the bomb at City Hall and says, «We`re not saying anything to the mayor,» we see Gerard Butler arrive at his property next to the jail, and eventually he enters his jail cell. Between Gerard Butler`s arrival at the property and his entry into the prison cell, Jamie Foxx thought up a plan, picked up the bomb, went through traffic and security, spoke to the warden to access the prison, entered the loners, handcuffed the bomb and still had time. to wait for Gerard Butler to arrive. Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 American drama film directed by F. Gary Gray. Set in Philadelphia, the film tells the story of a man who seeks justice while targeting not only his family`s murderer, but also those who have supported a corrupt criminal justice system and want to murder anyone who supports the system.
Law Abiding Citizen was filmed in Philadelphia and distributed by Overture Films in North America on October 16, 2009. No, I`m kidding. He turns out to be some kind of super hitman and kills a bunch of people. Ironically, Gerard Butler studied law in real life and was on the verge of becoming a lawyer before becoming an actor. Law Abiding Citizen ends with Rice turning the roles around and meeting Clyde in his cell. Rice asks Clyde one last time to stop what he is doing and surrender, insisting that if he chooses the suitcase bomb, he will regret it for the rest of his life. He also says he no longer deals with murderers, which Clyde likes to hear. He apologizes and chooses the bomb, only for Rice to lock his cell and reveal that Clyde is now trapped with the bomb.
Clyde looks at a bracelet his daughter gave him before her death when the bomb goes off, and the film ends with Rice attending his own daughter`s musical performance. Speaking of ridiculous scenarios, the plot of the film goes like this: family man Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler, comfortably in his smiling badass personality) watches helplessly as two criminals break into his home and murder his wife and young daughter. The insult comes as a bonus when assistant DA Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) only allows criminal #1 to three years in prison in exchange for his testimony against criminal #2, who receives the death penalty. «A little justice is better than no justice,» Rice says. Ten years later, Shelton launched a grassroots lobbying campaign to reform the state`s penal code to ensure that such a travesty never happens again. The search for bombs is probably the best way to enjoy the film. It`s hard to sympathize with Rice, an interested careerist. And even vigilantes may lose sympathy for Shelton, who is threatening people who are only marginally involved in the case — including Rice`s teenage daughter. The epilogue shows Nick watching his daughter play on stage, an event he had previously struggled to time. Despite the fact that Clyde was an eyewitness, the court system spoils the case (there`s a brief dialogue about DNA-something-blah-something).
Nick Rice (Foxx), a young aspiring pitcher in the prosecution, doesn`t want to ruin his 96% record with an unsuccessful trial, so he makes a deal to give one of the killers a lighter sentence for testifying against the other who receives the death penalty. Clyde is desperate, but Nick convinces him that nothing can be done. In the scene where Clyde tortures Darby, he cuts off his limbs, all in front of a mirror, which is the same method Dr. Danco uses in Jeff Lindsay`s second Dexter novel «Dearly Dedicated Dexter.» Law Abiding Citizen asks interesting questions about the justice system and plays with sympathy for the public.