The film becomes increasingly implausible, in its worst moments recalling the risible Al Pacino vehicle 88 Minutes and its scenario of an imprisoned man making monkeys out of the cops. Nick actually turns into his own version of Jigsaw, complete with a sickening array of instruments to severe all manner of body parts.Ĭlyde complicates his street justice credo with theofascist sanctimony that all of the guilty must pay, even if many of the innocent also suffer in the process.
To say that Clyde takes this news hard is like saying that Jigsaw from Saw enjoys sick games. Nick has a 96 per cent conviction rate that he's determined to maintain, one way or another. The main bad guy gets a reduced prison sentence in return for testifying against his oafish accomplice, who goes to Death Row.
Previously a believer in the justice system, this mild-mannered engineer suffers a psychotic reversal after showboating Philadelphia prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) cuts a deal with one of the killers. That's the psychological ledge Gerard Butler's Clyde Shelton is pushed out on, after he witnesses two men rape and murder his wife and young daughter in his own home. Gary Gray ( Friday) and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer ( Street Kings) for recognizing the darkest instinct of vengeful vigilantes and their societal cheerleaders: They don't just want bad guys imprisoned, they want them destroyed.
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Take movie vigilantism to its horrific extreme and the result is Law Abiding Citizen, a brutally effective and alarmingly cathartic combination of Death Wish and Saw.
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