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Law Abiding Citizen
The movie features Gerard Butler, and Jamie Foxx showing a law abiding citizen who got pushed to the wall when a false prosecutor bares witness that sets one of his family's killer free. Now is time to take law into his own hands.
12 December 1970, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
26 November 1950, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
16 October 1962, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
21 September 1967
17 November 1974, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
4 March 1964, Chicago, Illinois, USA
13 July 1976, Connecticut, USA
October 21, 2010
It's exactly the kind of film the phrase 'by-the-numbers' was invented for, but like the best genre films, it acknowledges its niche and goes all out to top its predecessors.
April 15, 2010
The film can't seem to make up its mind whether it wants to be an audience pleasing popcorn treat or a serious, political thriller. It ends up being partly both... with varying degrees of success.
October 16, 2009
Sure, it's outta place for October, but there's no reason you can't enjoy a mindless piece of candy against the backdrop of fall foliage.
February 05, 2010
While one man's terrorist may be another's freedom fighter, it's not quite as simple when it comes to CIA operatives and your basic serial killer. Or rather, a CIA psycho family man that might make Jack The Ripper envious.
March 29, 2011
Law Abiding Citizen may be the most nihilistic movie I've ever seen.
February 16, 2010
Putting aside the ideological posturing, this hyper-violent fantasy about a seemingly unstoppable killer who continues his murder spree behind bars delivers on its promise of an intriguing mystery, however far-fetched.
October 21, 2009
As a social statement, Law Abiding Citizen is a flawed attempt at holding the legal system accountable for its shortcomings. As a movie, it's a ridiculous execution of a misguided concept.
August 09, 2010
One of the more repugnant examples of Hollywood's cheap-thrill approach to violence, its voyeuristic brutality is matched only by its innate stupidity.
October 16, 2009
Law Abiding Citizen is such a lazy action-drama underachiever, it seems unfair to target stars Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler for bringing their C game.
October 19, 2009
There's the core of a fascinating amoral movie here before it gets amped up into a standard thriller
November 27, 2009
Sadly, there's nothing here but bloody off-cuts from 'Death Wish', 'Saw' and 'The Silence of the Lambs', in roughly that order.
October 16, 2009
A preposterous exercise in high-minded brutality, "Law Abiding Citizen" tries to pass itself off as a dialectic on justice betrayed, but instead plays like a snuff film with our nation's legal system as the victim.