[b]Rating: 8 out of 10[/b] Cast: Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton Colm Meaney as Detective Dunnigan Bruce McGill as Jonas Cantrell Leslie Bibb as Sarah Lowell Michael Irby as Detective Garza Gregory Itzin as Warden Iger Regina Hall as Kelly Rice...
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Review: Law Abiding Citizen
PLOT: Ten years after his wife and daughter are killed during a home invasion, a seemingly mild mannered inventor, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) brutally kills the two men involved in the crime. He's quickly arrested for the crime, but this turns out to just be the...
Philly-set ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ is predictable, but enjoyable
[i]Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx star in the legal thriller "Law Abiding Citizen," which was filmed in and around Philadelphia.[/i] [b]Movie Review: "Law Abiding Citizen," 3.5 stars (out of 5)[/b] Moviegoers in and around Philadelphia will likely eat up “Law Abiding...
Law Abiding Citizen – Review
[i]Gerard Butler makes revenge a dish served too cold for an Eskimo[/i] The revenge film has made an interesting comeback since the events of September 11, 2001. From The Brave One and both Punisher films to Death Sentence and Man on Fire with various films of wildly...
Law Abiding Citizen Review
Revenge is a dish best served with car bombs and chainsaws in "Law Abiding Citizen," a twisty hybrid of serial-killer suspenser, legal thriller and prison drama that, in between grisly setpieces, attempts to raise significant questions about the failures of the...
Law Abiding Citizen — Film Review
Bottom Line: An implausible thriller with a few horror elements in the guise of social criticism. In "Law Abiding Citizen," a sociopath goes on a rampage, killing major officials in Philadelphia and holding the entire city hostage. He essentially is a character...
Jamie Foxx-Gerard Butler stand-off punches up the gory Law Abiding Citizen
Before 1974's Death Wish, which turned Charles Bronson from an obscure semi-heavy into a full-fledged action hero, Westerns were the genre that specialized in sagas about easygoing types turned vigilantes by fate and the vagaries of the legal system. But the Bronson...
‘Law Abiding Citizen’: savagely raising Cain
Even during its most preposterous circumstances, "Law Abiding Citizen" keeps us intrigued with a creepy vibe. That the latter is so easily provided by the "good guy," as portrayed by the usually affable Gerard Butler, something's gotta give in the viewer's mind, if...
Law Abiding Citizen
Law Abiding Citizen is an outstanding amalgamation of best practices gleaned from some of it finest predecessors. And fortunately for this film, while true movie fans will most likely recognize all of these best practices and know from whence they came, they will also...
“Law Abiding Citizen†review
At The 13th Annual Urbanworld Film Festival, I saw “Law Abiding Citizen“, directed by F. Gary Gray. Director F. Gary Gray didn't really knock me out with “The Negotiator“. Sure, it's good. But I felt like he was filming theater. You put Kevin Spacey and Sam...