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Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
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Reviews Counted:131
Fresh:32
Rotten:99
Average Rating:4.3/10
Consensus: Unnecessarily violent and unflinchingly absurd, Law Abiding Citizen is plagued by subpar acting and a story that defies reason.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Oct 16, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $71,991,438
Synopsis: In LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, a prisoner's incredible reign over the city outside his cell is interrupted by an assistant district attorney. Gerard Butler (300) stars.
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Viola Davis, Bruce McGill
Director: F. Gary Gray
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Reviews for Law Abiding Citizen
What sours F Gary Gray’s film is the drawn-out sadism of its violence — a depressing case of torture-porn methods infecting another genre.
12/04/09
[It's] pretending to examine the nature of justice, test the parameters of law and probe the relationship between good and evil. But really it's just intent on blowing shit up.
12/04/09
Law Abiding Citizen tries to be two kinds of exploitation film at once, and it ends up as neither.
12/04/09
The film's entertainment value resides almost entirely in the ingenuity of Butler's modus operandi; but this is cancelled out by the film's underlying stupidity.
11/27/09
Relentlessly ugly, preposterous and hackneyed of dialogue: guilty on all counts. It will do well, then.
11/27/09
Sadly, there’s nothing here but bloody off-cuts from ‘Death Wish’, ‘Saw’ and ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, in roughly that order.
11/27/09
Put simply, this writer would take any number of bad movies over one nasty film. And make no mistake about it, Law Abiding Citizen is a very nasty movie indeed.
11/27/09
Full of incoherent, spitting rage, ignorant, paranoid violence and a complete lack of internal logic.
11/27/09
It's silly and nasty at the same time: not a good combination.
11/27/09
The motto of Law Abiding Citizen, endlessly repeated by Shelton, is that everyone must account for their actions. Does that apply to the people who made and star in this truly dire film?
11/27/09
The film doesn’t take itself too seriously and there are enough cool deaths and thrills to entertain despite the ridiculous premise.
11/27/09
Hollywood hokum of the tallest order. Riddled with supernova-sized plot holes and soaked in clichés, it's that rare breed of film that succeeds despite its credibility-straining premise and black and white morality.
11/27/09
Wildly implausible tosh.
11/27/09
Could 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.
11/27/09
Foxx is perfectly cast as the moral compass of the film, but it's Butler's edgy portrayal, walking a thin line between madness and genius, which leaves a lasting impression.
11/27/09
Arguably the most preposterous picture of the year.
11/27/09
A piece of big, brash, brains-out popcorn fodder best savoured after last orders.
11/27/09
When reality melts and major US cities become porous, we need some of the mad panache recently demonstrated by Roland Emmerich in 2012.
11/27/09
With film, the question is not always, “Do I believe it?”; more often, it is “Do they believe it?” And in the case of Law Abiding Citizen they believe it so much that revenge becomes a thing you can taste.
11/27/09
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