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Law Abiding Citizen [Blu-ray] [2009]

Law Abiding Citizen [Blu-ray] [2009]Director: F. Gary Gray
Actors: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill
Studio: Momentum Pictures
Category: DVD

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 49 reviews

Format: Anamorphic, PAL
Languages: English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 - 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 109 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6

MPN: BLULAWABIDING
EAN: 5060116725001

Release Date: April 12, 2010
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days

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Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis, Regina Hall, Gerard ButlerDirector: F. Gary Gray

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4 out of 5 stars Good thriller - who will you root for?   September 8, 2010
Filmfan
Love the premise - guys gets own back on the system in revenge for system letting him down, even while they have him prisoner. Gerard Butler plays it a bit too cold to get our full sympathy, so some people may not be sure who to root for - Who's the "good" guy? Butler or Foxx?

Anyway, really enjoyable film that had my attention throughout and had some great set pieces. Recommend.


4 out of 5 stars Action Thriller and Legal Drama. 2 for the price of 1.   September 8, 2010
Hollie (UK)
When the man who murdered his wife and child makes a deal with prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) and goes free Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) takes matters into his own hands. But rather than this being your run of the mill revenge thriller, Law Abiding Citizen acts to highlight the loop holes in US law and how they can be abused to favour the criminals, even if that is not the true intention at the time.

Jamie Foxx gives a fantastic performance as the well intentioned Nick, he manages to create a realistic character with a believable personality, at times I liked him, at times I didn't. The same goes for Gerard Butler. As the heartbroken husband and father I really felt for him, but his actions throughout the movie created a great sense of ambivalence in me. I could not condone, but nor could I out right comdemn his reasoning. Unfortunately though Gerard Butler has a way of chewing on his words that really gets on my nerves.

I found the plot kept me interested, and though it was never particularly complex I would never have imagined the twist which explained what was happening. I found the direction and the score were well suited to the film and the entire supporting cast all gave very good performances. If you generally enjoy action movies and legal dramas then here you have the 2 in 1. Recommended.


3 out of 5 stars Souless but mildly diverting   August 25, 2010
random bint (Cambridgeshire, UK)
This film's a decent thriller but it lacks spark. It's solidly acted but hardly outstanding (Butler's accent is VERY dodgy). It veers between wanting to be a morally ambivalent film about good, evil, revenge and justice, and a fairly straightforward shoot 'em up. The stunts and general premise of man kills others while in prison is neat, but the plot flails around madly while you quickly lose sympathy for the hero and end up thinking you should have picked something with Bruce Willis instead. Is Gerrard Butler the next Clive Owen? Pretty but never quite brilliant? Looks like....


5 out of 5 stars Law Abiding Citizen is awesome.   August 25, 2010
Mark Jones (Devon, UK)
An awesome film only let down by the Hollywood (USA 'heroes' always win) ending. My personal best film of the year by miles. Brilliant. Superb.


4 out of 5 stars A confusingly toned but exciting thriller   August 17, 2010
Benminx (Plymouth)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Director F. Gary Gray's efforts range from the supremely tense and exciting 'The Negotiator' to the flat incoherence of 'A Man Apart' This is the middle ground. When Gerard Butler's Clyde witnesses professional criminals murder his beloved family before his eyes, he looks to Jamie Foxx's hotshot prosecutor to nail them. Instead, he cuts them a deal, shattering Clyde's trust in the law. When the bad guys start to die in murderously gruesome ways there's only one suspect, as Clyde comes after the men who killed his family, and anybody who he feels cheated them out of justice...
Gerard Butler tries hard as Clyde, and his character is charming, broken hearted, chillingly intelligent and wrathful by turns, but he's not given a deep or well-written enough role to be truly convincing as a grieving husband and father. Similarly Jamie Foxx's character can be largely defined by one word - 'ambitious' - and although he's given a little more meat than Butler, his character also feels shallow. The bad guys are little more than 1-dimensional cut-outs, and the other characters in the movie are largely just functional. However, it is an enjoyable movie that's well directed and has many stand-out moments. The opening is harrowing, and the first revenge scene is cringe-inducing. The violence goes quite far throughout the film. There is a brilliantly executed 'jump-out-of-your-seat' moment thrown in there, and some truly fiendish traps and killings. Butler's character is also clearly driven, and his actions are enjoyably clever and hard to understand until the big reveal. The ending is nicely tense and quite brutal.
What is confusing is the tone of the film. We start off with Butler as our hero for about the first twenty minutes, then after setting Foxx up as arrogant and a little hard to like, the film switches and presents him instead as our hero. This is a confusing tonal shift that distracts from the movie, and they would have been better off establishing their characters a little firmer earlier on. It's a hard uphill battle to like this guy after he's just sold out a grieving father and his brutally murdered wife and little girl - not enough justification or agonising about it is done to make it easy to understand his character's decision, let alone forgive it. There's also a revelation about Butler's character that is hard to believe and never properly sold - it's just thrown out there and we're expected to either believe it or not. A bit more effort in the writing, and this could have really enhanced his character.
Overall there's some very exciting violence, a twisting sadistic plot, and some good shocks. The characters in Kurt Wimmer's script needed more work. However it is an enjoyable Saturday night thriller.

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