Submitted by: rondmcd

All and all, a good action movie, I like the premise and enjoyed Gerard Butler.  Jamie Foxx, just okay.  It had an interesting twist to the typical sympathetic bad guy movie – but was still pretty predictable.   Worth the trip, the action probably makes it worth watching in the theater as opposed to waiting for DVD.

Submitted by: tivogirl

The trailers sucked me in and even though I figured it was predictable, I like Gerard Butler. He was great in this, but Jamie Foxx just came off as a poor man's Denzel Washington. It was just as predictable as I suspected, but vastly more violent. I actually had to turn away at certain points, which is unusual for me. The editing is sloppy and the story is lazy. There is a point at which the audience is supposed to turn their allegiance from one character to another but I never clearly understood why or where, so the end was a let-down for me. All that said, it was entertaining and worth the hour forty in the theater, but unless you're a huge Gerard Butler fan, wait for the DVD on this one.

Submitted by: boycottmc

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) does an excellent job playing a genius against a corrupt justice sentence. After his wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a violent home invasion, prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), afraid of marring his record, arranges a deal with one of the perpetrators if he testified against his partner, even though the partner was little more than a bystander during the crime. Ten years later, Shelton uses his engineering expertise to reek havoc with those involved in the case. Rice, now an assistant DA watches his friends and collegues around him murdered, as Shelton vows to “bring down the temple”. I would have liked to have hated Rice’s character more, as prosecutors of this nature are often seen as fast talking nervous nanny control freaks. As some of the columnists concluded, the movie does take a lot of liberties, but then again, if you realize this going in, you and give this movie four out of fine. If you like the Rambo series and Death Wish, you will like Law Abiding Citizen…Four out of five.

The rundown: An engineer (Gerard Butler), 10 years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, goes after the legal system in this bloody, idiotic thriller. 107 minutes. (SPM)

Synopsis: Clyde Shelton is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice, a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton's high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton's crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.