Review of Law Abiding Citizen (2009) by Jillian L — 30 Jan 2012
Shmeh. The best part of this movie is Gerard Butlerâ(TM)s abs. This movie attempts to make a point. Itâ(TM)s basically trying to say that are legal system is awful and this is one manâ(TM)s attempt to bring the corruptness of the justice system to public light.
A few valid points are made throughout the movie in regards to the legal system today. How Clyde spits out some legal jargon and all of a sudden, the judge is willing to let him go on bail, and Clyde angrily yells at her for letting him go.
Interesting to think about. However, any and all philosophical points were lost in the body count of this movie. From a cinematic point of view, I predicted every death. I knew at least 10-15 seconds before every one that they were about to die.
The cell phone? knew when it started ringing. The cars? knew it when they walked into the parking lot. That makes an even more boring movie. This movie was struggling between political statement and boring revenge movie.
Clyde went from a hero, which I think was the point of this movie, to a downright awful human being. Targeting the killers of his wife and kids honestly should have been sufficient. But when he killed the six D.
A. workers, his argument was gone to me. Those D.A. workers werenâ(TM)t even on his case 10 years prior. I donâ(TM)t know, maybe the movie was more about Clydeâ(TM)s descent into madness than displaying the corruptness of the legal system.
The latter would have been a more interesting movie.
This review of Law Abiding Citizen (2009) was written by Jillian L on 30 Jan 2012.
Law Abiding Citizen has generally received positive reviews.
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