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. 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. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix theįlawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Nick offers one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against hisįast forward ten years. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice ( Jamie Foxx), a hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Gary Gray and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer a chance to go all "Godfather" on us.Clyde Shelton ( Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. On the other hand, Nick has a beautiful wife (Regina Hall) and a daughter (Emerald-Angel Young) who plays cello - an elegiac touch that gives director F. There isn't much else for him to do, having been rendered toothless by an unconquerable foe.
The part, however, mainly requires him to issue all-knowing proclamations and scrunch up his face in righteous outrage.Īs Nick, Foxx frowns back. For a long time now, I've been growing weary of the omnipotent bad guy - the one who engineers a violent crusade from some remote corner, usually a basement, and knows all, sees all, does all, kills all, mocking all doofus cops and politicos who make some attempt to restrain him. What happens afterward doesn't really matter, because it makes absolutely no sense and performs no function beyond the repeat stimulation of the audience's collective lizard brain. 2 in a brief, ugly spate of Hostel-meets-Saw torture-porn moralizing, complete with hand tools. 1's execution drip with something that makes him bleed through his skin. He replaces the potassium chloride in Thug No. Ten years later, Clyde's all done with helpless watching. Once more, Clyde watches helplessly as Nick and the killer shake hands outside a Philadelphia courthouse.
The architect of this deal is Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a slick prosecuting attorney who cares more about his conviction rate than actual justice. He watches helplessly as the first thug gets sent to death row while the second, the actual, murdering scumbag, pleads to a lesser charge. In the first half-hour of "Law Abiding Citizen," a beetle-browed bear of a man named Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) watches helplessly as two thugs burst into his home, one of them slaying his wife and daughter.
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