Law Abiding Citizen
A thriller about an everyday guy (Gerard Butler) who loses everything when criminals kill his family. After a plea bargin set's the killers free, he takes justice into his own hands. His target: the district attorney (Jamie Foxx) who orchestrated the deal.
From the writer of Street Kings and The Recruit and the director of The Italian Job.
- Director:
- F. Gary Gray ('Friday', 'The Italian Job', 'Be Cool')
- Writer:
- Kurt Wimmer
- Cast:
- Gerard ButlerJamie FoxxMichael GambonLeslie BibbColm MeaneyViola Davis
Reviews & comments
An enjoyable film despite it's flaws.
Law Abiding Citizen is very much a well-made thriller that will satisfy the mature audiences. It's a good dark ride that will not only keep you on the edge of your seat but get you thinking too. Just don't expect this to break the formula, or give you three dimensional characters.
An excellent film
I thought Law Abiding Citizen was an awesome film. Its morales were so powerful, it was well acted and very suspensful. I could fully believe how something like that could happen when the justice system fails you. Gerard Butler in his most intelligent if slightly "Joker-like" role to date, with Jamie Foxx's superb lead as a corrupt cop.
Variety
pressTrue torture-porn aficionados will be disappointed, as editor Tariq Anwar cuts away right before blade meets flesh -- a move that feels a tad, well, gutless under the circumstances. But elsewhere, "Citizen" proves startlingly graphic, even by R-rated standards.
Total Film
pressCould have made for a decent enough B-movie renter if it had just aimed a bit lower, but the moral drum-banging only serves to throw its failings into even sharper relief
The New York Times
pressWears its preposterousness with a certain pride. It’s about the cat-and-mouse game between two very smart guys, and it’s perfectly happy to be as dumb as it wants.
New Zealand Herald
pressAbsurd plot and stomach-turning violence ruins this tense thriller.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe script does create sufficient tension and intrigue to hook viewers along with a photogenic, hardworking cast.
Empire Magazine
pressRelentlessly ugly, preposterous and hackneyed of dialogue: guilty on all counts. It will do well, then.
Variety
pressTrue torture-porn aficionados will be disappointed, as editor Tariq Anwar cuts away right before blade meets flesh -- a move that feels a tad, well, gutless under the circumstances. But elsewhere, "Citizen" proves startlingly graphic, even by R-rated standards.
Total Film
pressCould have made for a decent enough B-movie renter if it had just aimed a bit lower, but the moral drum-banging only serves to throw its failings into even sharper relief
The New York Times
pressWears its preposterousness with a certain pride. It’s about the cat-and-mouse game between two very smart guys, and it’s perfectly happy to be as dumb as it wants.
New Zealand Herald
pressAbsurd plot and stomach-turning violence ruins this tense thriller.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe script does create sufficient tension and intrigue to hook viewers along with a photogenic, hardworking cast.
Empire Magazine
pressRelentlessly ugly, preposterous and hackneyed of dialogue: guilty on all counts. It will do well, then.
An enjoyable film despite it's flaws.
Law Abiding Citizen is very much a well-made thriller that will satisfy the mature audiences. It's a good dark ride that will not only keep you on the edge of your seat but get you thinking too. Just don't expect this to break the formula, or give you three dimensional characters.
An excellent film
I thought Law Abiding Citizen was an awesome film. Its morales were so powerful, it was well acted and very suspensful. I could fully believe how something like that could happen when the justice system fails you. Gerard Butler in his most intelligent if slightly "Joker-like" role to date, with Jamie Foxx's superb lead as a corrupt cop.
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