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After his family is brutally murdered, Clyde takes matters into his own hands. He tells the prosecutor to fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Clyde orchestrates the killings of high-profile targets from his jail cell.
Drama - This is a dramatic suspense thriller that should please the fans of
stars Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler. Violence and language make the
film inappropriate for children.
Jamie Foxx THE SOLOIST, THE KINGDOM, DREAMGIRLS, MIAMI VICE Gerard Butler GAMER, THE UGLY TRUTH, ROCKNROLLA, NIM'S ISLAND Leslie Bibb CONFESSIONS OF A SHOPAHOLIC, MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN Bruce McGill OBSESSED, CINDERELLA MAN, COLLATERAL Colm Meaney FIVE FINGERS Viola Davis DOUBT, NIGHTS IN RODANTHE, SOLARIS Director:F. Gary Gray BE COOL, THE ITALIAN JOB, A MAN APART
PROFANITY: Over 30 F-words, 13 S-words, a number of others. SEX/NUDITY: Brief non-sexual nudity. VIOLENCE: Stabbings, dismemberments. DRUGS/ALCOHOL: Cocaine and injections. ACTION: Chases and explosions. COMEDY: None.
Roger EbertFull Review Good 'Law Abiding Citizen' is one of those movies you like more at the time than in retrospect.
USA TodayFull Review Average Deep within Law Abiding Citizen lurks a thought-provoking movie. But most of what we see on the screen is implausible, superficial and only marginally involving.
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GREAT REVIEWS! All ages, both male and female, LOVED "LAW ABIDING CITIZEN." Teens and twentysomethings rated it especially high. Only a small percentage, mainly adults, rated it as low as "Good/Average," which is a bit low but not bad.
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Nick offers 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.
