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You see hisВ elaborateВ and illogicalВ plans play out on screen and its fun to watch on a purely visceral level. The film becomes highly entertaining during the second and third act, where Clyde isВ instigatingВ and playing nonstop mind games. What was meant to be a serious scene turns very cheesy and cringeworthy fast. The film opens up with the murder scene in a rather predictable fashion i.e whip-pan cameraВ movementsВ and super-duper serious bad guy lines. From the always-too-familiar junky bad guys to a lot of silly one liners, it feels like the perfectВ unintentionalВ comedy. Death Wish) except this film seems to be parodying the cliches present in those films. This story is highly similar to many 70вЂ™s revenge thrillers (i.e. The only key thing is that he lets Rice know is that heвЂ™s вЂњjust getting warmed upвЂќ (recall this scene in the trailer, followed by a man standing in the middle of engulfed flames). How can this be happening when the man who may beВ responsibleВ is in jail? Does he have someone on the outside assisting him? Nobody knows. After being put away in a jail cell, the murderous rampage continues. Even after he brutallyВ kills his wife and daughterвЂ™s murderers heвЂ™s still out for blood. SheltonвЂ™s on a war path ofВ vengeanceВ or, as he hilariously puts it,вЂќitвЂ™s gonna be biblical.вЂќ Shelton is not only interested in taking down his familyвЂ™s murders but also the people who are part of the legal system who let them go. TheВ murderersВ slip through the system due to a vain prosecutor named Nick Rice ( Jaime Foxx), who seems more focused on his conviction rate than justice. Ten years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, Clyde Shelton ( Gerard Butler) is out for revenge. It does cross the point of genuine badness at times, but counters with moments of pureВ excitement.В This isnвЂ™t aВ particularlyВ good film and is even downright cringeworthy during certain moments, but even those moments are fun due to theirВ ridiculousness. There is nothing more than a generic story and pure cheesiness, and yet it still maintains itвЂ™s funВ garbage tone.

I would also say it is my favorite from Gray.Law Abiding Citizen is a preposterous and lucrative revenge story filled with nonstop cliches. I think these type of movies suit him much better than the drama's or love stories that he has done in the past. I really liked Butler in his role though. There are holes in the plot of course, but overall I thought it was good.Дidn't really care for Jaime Foxx in this one, maybe it was more his character than himself, I guess. However, I would have done the death sequence a bit different. It does however leave a lasting impression on you when a main character dies in a movie, so I guess I can see the appeal. Like I said earlier, I didn't really care for the ending and they could have done much more with it.

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Which is what makes the movie for me.ДЄs far as the plot, it kept my attention for the most part. Quite a vicious one he is in fact, but very cunning. Although, we are meant to sympathize with the main character, he is still the villain all the same. The overwhelming majority of movies always have the 'good' side come out on top, and it just isn't all that realistic (Didn't quite happen here).

I have always liked movies where the bad guys end up getting away with it (IE: Primal Fear, Inside Man, ect). To be honest, I really liked it up until the end.

I didn't see anything really written here about it, and I was curious as to what people thought.

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