
Gary Gray from a screenplay written by Kurt Wimmer.It stars Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx and takes place in Philadelphia, telling the story of a man driven to seek justice while targeting not only his family’s killer but also those who have supported a corrupt criminal justice system, intending to. Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 American vigilante action thriller film directed by F.

He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal. This one’s a blood-spattered insult from start to finish.Law Abiding Citizen 2009, movie Law Abiding Citizen 2009 A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. Stick around for the ludicrous conclusion and you’ll be genuinely offended on a number of levels. As the slick lawyer’s colleagues begin to drop like exploding flies, a baffled Rice discovers that Shelton is merely saving him for dessert. After Shelton confesses to torturing and killing Darby, Rice locks him up in a maximum-security prison. But Shelton survives to see him get sentenced to a mere decade in prison after cutting a sweetheart deal with assistant district attorney Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx, who does his best with a thankless role).īy the time Darby is released, an unhinged Shelton has had 10 years to plot his revenge on virtually everyone involved in the case.

We just know that Darby-the kind of psycho hillbilly who’s become obligatory in this kind of scenario-is going to slaughter Shelton’s family with true backwoods gusto. They force Shelton to watch as head lowlife Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte) rapes his wife. Unfortunately, this unique skill set doesn’t do him any good when two lowlifes invade his home.

Watch the trailer for Law Abiding Citizen.īutler’s Clyde Shelton is a government-funded techno-geek who dreams up novel ways of killing people by remote control.
