Law Abiding Citizen

Pros: Good acting by Foxx and Butler, good script and explosive action
Cons: A little weak in character development

I've wanted to see this film since the first trailers came out.  I'm a fan of both Jamie Foxx ("Ray", "Collateral", "Dreamgirls") and Gerard Butler ("300", "The Phantom of the Opera", "Gamer") and the plot certainly looked interesting.  I read ...

Pros: Taut Action, tangled intrigue, solid cast, and Gerard Butler's Butt.
Cons: Raises sticky moral quandries and leaves you to figure your own way out.

Law Abiding Citizen (2009) Directed by F. Gary GrayNick Rice: You end this! Clyde Shelton: [smiles] I'm just gettin' warmed up.Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is a family man, at home with his wife and ...

Pros: Butler is excellent, good action, intriguing plot, nice surprises
Cons: Violence can be oft-putting, unrealistic

Sometimes fun and logic doesn't go hand in hand when it comes to motion pictures. While a film may be completely authentic or realistic it's quite possible that it could be as boring as watching paint dry. Other times, if you throw logic out the window, ...

Pros: It provided employment for some special effects guys.  Gives hope to bad screenwriters everywhere.
Cons: One-two-three punch of this, GAMER & UGLY TRUTH could put Butler out of business.

I’m sure we’ve all experienced many movies where we said to ourselves, “Well, I’ll just turn my brain off, sit back and enjoy the thrills (or chills, or silliness).”  Heck, a great thing about a lot of movies is being ...

Pros: great suspenseful movie, good acting
Cons: can get very violent

When I first saw the trailers for Law Abiding Citizen I thought it looked good. So when we had the opportunity to see a sneak preview, my husband jumped on it and we got to see it a day before its release.This film is about Clyde Shelton ...

Pros: gory, engaging, entertaining
Cons: sloppily written, problematic storyline

L. Gary Gray’s Law Abiding Citizen was a fun film to watch and to review. Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is a father and husband, a family man in every sense of the word. When violent thugs mercilessly take the lives of his wife and daughter, ...

Pros: Solid cast, cat/mouse game, not easily predictable
Cons: Cool color tones get distracting, little audience involvement in solving the "games" 

Back in the ‘90s, the serial killer subgenre of the thriller was in its heyday. It’s easy to see why with the The Silence of the Lambs leading the way at the start of the decade. By the middle of the decade was another ...

Pros: Excellent film in re: the American justice system and its pros/ cons. 
Cons: Bogged down a teeny bit but not enough to make it tedious, dull or irritating.

I really liked this movie.  Sure, it was a little hard to believe anyone could pull off the things Butler's character did - at first.  However, once it's revealed that he was perfectly capable of that and more, there were no more doubts in my ...

Pros: Very well plotted.
Cons: No "cons" at this time.

I just came home from seeing Law Abiding Citizen. The movie was great. Jamie Fox was outstanding in his role. The plot was very clever. It was a well thought movie. You must see it to understand just how the Directors keep you wondering what is going to happen next!