Law Abiding Citizen

[HiTempguy1]

Wow. I'm impressed. Considering the lead actor usually gets shafted into roles with shitty writing, he was impressive to watch act. This just came out on DVD, I have no idea when it was in theatres, but I couldn't find a thread here on it.

What did everybody else think of it?

Spoiler:

I find it odd of how watching Dexter hack people up doesn't bother me, but Clyde seemed to be a very disturbed individual when he did it in this movie, which freaked me right the fawk out.

I also am curious as to why the story writer deemed this a "happy ending" movie. This is one of the few movies where it would have seemed to have made sense for it to be a "sad" ending, with Jamie Foxx's character truly learning the "lesson"

[1-Bar]

yeah, I watched it a few months back....very good flick, but I agree on your second spoiler note for sure!

Edit: it was in theaters in Oct09, since I wanted to watch it while I was on vacation but forgot about it.....

[schocker]

I also never thought of it while it was in theatres and watched it when the dvd came out. I was quite impressed with it as I thought it was some court room drama for some reason.

Quite an interesting movie though how it played out. I was also hoping for the other ending as I was rooting for clyde even though the things he did to get his point accross were quite extreme. I did read that originally the two mains roles were reversed and changed at the last second.

[eglove]

I really liked it, watched it the other night!

[Shlade]

Love it! bought it a while ago on dvd! amazing movie!

[Sil80_D]

everyone i know has told me this is a great movie... gonna rent it this week!

[Shlade]

Probably one of Gerard Butlers best roles... Aside from 300

[black13]

the fuck? this is a terrible movie. Jammie Foxx's acting was about as dull as a butter knife.

It started out fine and even till the last 20 min I would put it as ok but the whole ending scenario just ruined the whole thing.

They set the whole movie up with Gerard as a mastermind who carefully plotted everything, and then all of a sudden somehow he gets outsmarted by Jamie Foxx?
And despite the whole thing being Jamie Foxx's fault, at the end his character walked away and didn't learn a thing.

[sneek]

Spoiler:

Perhaps it is because dexter only kills bad people, however this guy murders everybody, and to a large extent many of them are innocent.

[Kobe]

Spoiler - What i didnt like..
Spoiler:

I didn't like How he left the building first with the cell phone, but Foxx got to his cell before he reached it...

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[HiTempguy1]

Originally posted by black13
the fuck? this is a terrible movie. Jammie Foxx's acting was about as dull as a butter knife.

It started out fine and even till the last 20 min I would put it as ok but the whole ending scenario just ruined the whole thing.

They set the whole movie up with Gerard as a mastermind who carefully plotted everything, and then all of a sudden somehow he gets outsmarted by Jamie Foxx?
And despite the whole thing being Jamie Foxx's fault, at the end his character walked away and didn't learn a thing.

You and I obviously have different definitions of a terrible movie. I'm not saying it was A movie material, but it was a solid b-list movie. I can name it better than plenty of hollywood a-movies that were given good ratings.

Admittingly enough, there would have been a switch on the bomb to detect if it had been moved. But I think that was one of the points, he was getting too cocky near the end. For instance, Avatar (by most definitions of a good movie) was mediocre. People still loved it.

[Tik-Tok]

Originally posted by HiTempguy1


Admittingly enough, there would have been a switch on the bomb to detect if it had been moved.

Just watched this last night, and this was my first thought when Spoiler:

they showed the bomb under his cell bed, anyone so creative with bombs would surely have a mercury switch or even be hooked up to the phones accelerometer. It was not a suitable ending for the movie at all