After seeing “Law Abiding Citizen” a few weeks back, I told a friend that it was 90 percent awesome and 10 percent just okay. Upon reflection, that is about as fair of a review as I can give.
The film tells the story of Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler), a mild-mannered husband whose wife and daughter are assaulted and murdered during a home invasion. After years of the justice system, only one of the attackers is given the death penalty when the other culprit strikes a deal with an up-and-coming prosecutor named Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx). Shelton isn’t happy, so he sabotages the lethal injection process to make it painful and lethal, then he kidnaps and brutally kills the other that got away.
Soon, Rice tracks Shelton down and puts him in jail. However, Shelton has a secret. Soon, officials who were connected to the justice deal are targeted by Shelton while he’s in jail. It’s up to Rice to figure out how he’s attacking everyone from the lawyers to the judge before the entire justice system is taken down.
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