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Without giving anything away, the sequence involves a gigantic weapon sitting out in the open – one that’s equipped to shoot bullets and missiles. Take, for instance, a scene set in a cemetery. The second problem is more serious: the film is so outlandish that it’s often hard not to snicker. He also is a workaholic who neglects his own wife and daughter in order to climb the career ladder. Nick, on the other hand, made a self-serving call that was clearly wrong. If his big beef is with Nick, why does he allow the prosecutor to live while others perish? My empathy for him was quickly lost. He actually ends up inflicting pain on essentially innocent people. But as the story progresses, he does things that are just as bad if not worse. After all, his wife and daughter were murdered, and the guy who actually did the killing got off lightly. Initially I had a lot of sympathy for Clyde. First off, I wasn’t sure who to root for here. There are really three essential problems with Law Abiding Citizen (and the fact that the title is missing a grammatically-correct hyphen isn’t one of them). It becomes clear that the man is trying to make some sort of twisted point about how the judicial system has failed. Coming up empty, he pleads with Clyde to stop, but the body count keeps rising. Nick cannot figure out how Clyde is exacting his revenge from behind bars. Even so, other people involved in the case start dying as well. Clyde, who doesn’t deny his guilt, is arrested and put in jail. Ten years later, the criminal who got the lighter sentence is brutally murdered. Gerard Butler plays Clyde Shelton, the grieving husband/father who strongly disapproves of Nick’s compromise. This leads him to work out a plea bargain in a case involving the murder of a woman and her daughter as it happens, the more guilty of the criminals gets a few years in jail while the less guilty one gets the death penalty. Nick has a 96% conviction rate, achieved mostly by refusing to prosecute cases he isn’t certain he can win. Jamie Foxx plays Philadelphia prosecutor Nick Rice. Here’s a picture that requires more than a mere suspension of disbelief it requires outright delusion to buy all the crazy stuff that happens in this story. I definitely do have a problem with this kind, and Law Abiding Citizen is one of them. Then there are movies that are preposterous, don’t know they are preposterous, and actually think they are being profound. Crank 2: High Voltage comes instantly to mind.
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Some movies are preposterous, know they are preposterous, and are content to be preposterous. Jamie Foxx desperately tries (and fails) to find logic in the abysmal Law Abiding Citizen.