Law Abiding Citizen's Review

Law Abiding Citizen is a torture-porn thriller directed by F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job), but that's what it all is, a torture-porn. What's actually interesting about the movie is you get to see Gerald Butler acting as a bad guy for the first time in his career. But when I was watching the movie, I didn't know that. It feels like as if the movie wants you to pity Butler's character, whose family was killed, and root for him throughout the movie which I did. I had to find out after awhile that he is actually the bad guy but I kept on rooting for him because Foxx's character in this movie is super boring. For a movie whose intention is about a guy brutally killing and torturing the people involved in his family murder, its not violent enough. They showed a scene where Butler is sadisticly (Jigsaw-like) killing one of the guy responsible for the murder, but only showed what the aftermath looked like and not the part where he actually was cutting parts of the guy. He ends up in jail, and then solitary confinement. In the confinement, he gets to get in and out of jail anytime he wants to. When he does, he start killing people who was not involve in the murder what so ever. Since when America's prison get so lame? The plot is stupid, the scenes were not sadistic enough, and it's a very forgettable movie. But for what it's worth, the movie is not boring for a 2-hour length thriller.

Overall: 4.0 / 10