Law Abiding Citizen

Where the Wilds Things Are in IMAX was sold out to a bunch of whiny hipsters with really tight jeans and soft emotional issues, so instead I saw Law Abiding Citizen. This movie is an epic battle of wits between King Leonidas and Ray Charles that leaves you interested and thirsting for more as the movie progresses.

Clyde Shelton (King Leonidas aka Gerard Butler) witnesses the murder and rape of his wife and daughter during a violent break in and robbery. The attorney assigned to his case, Nick Rice (Ray Charles aka Jamie Foxx), cops a plea bargain with the more brutal of the the assailants, sending the one robber, who did none of the raping or murdering to death row, leaving him with only a maximum of three years to serve for being an asshole. Obviously, King Leonidas isn’t cool with that shit. But everyone thinks that he’s simply dealt with it, because for the next ten years nothing happens, until it’s time to put the one guy to death.

While everyone watched on as the lethal injections were being pumped into the guy’s system, everyone in the audience (in the movie) was like, “This is madness.” But then, something starts going wrong and the death row inmate starts going crazy as some hardcore poison is being pumped into his blood and somewhere in the background you can hear, “Madness, THIS….IS….SPAR…TAAAAAA!” And from that moment on all hell breaks loose.

Clyde Shelton is now determined to make everyone pay, but not just by killing them all one by one, but by fucking with them hard. And what is the best way to fuck with them, well by killing them all while he’s in jail of course, locked up, behind bars, surrounded by guards. I mean, these people obviously haven’t watched 300.

The interaction between Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx is great, the movie has a bunch of funny lines and some moments that made me literally say, “OH SHIT!” out loud. Good thing I wasn’t the only one in the movie theater who did. The movie is not predictable and keeps you on your toes through out.

However, I am only going to give this movie 3.5 meaty steaks because I am still at odds with the ending. I would need to watch it again to determine whether or not I liked how it ended. Aside from that, this is one entertaining movie.

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