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Good Thinking, Bad Emotions

The Story:

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented.

Release Date: October 16th, 2009 (wide)

Distributors: Overture Films

Directed by: F. Gary Gray (Italian Job, Set it Off)

Starring: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Colm Meaney, Viola Davis, Bruce McGill

Budget: $53,000,000

Gross revenue: $80,960,403

Review:

Lately, there are no good thriller movies that force the viewers to keep thinking, and the other hand not loose the intense itself. Law Abiding Citizen gives a fresh idea in suspense genre. The main point of this movie is how Clyde Shelton can arranged murders from behind a jail. Does he have a partner? Or did he just plan the setup before he got arrested? The answer itself will be revealed at the last part of the movie, and if you haven’t know the answer, it won’t disappoint you.

This movie is also supposed to be in drama genre. But we’ll see a lack of emotions from the main characters. Clyde Shelton will make us confuse, whether we want to feel sympathized for him for losing his family, or hate him for his brutal revenge. In fact, even he did a lot of killing, we still gonna feel like Clyde is the hero of this film.

Gerard Butler acting is not helpful either, he still can’t loose his stereotype character that he brought from his hit movie 300 as King Leonidas. He too over charmed his character, like we saw in his last movie. The Ugly Truth. While Jamie Foxx played below his standart, another characters in this movie look like didn’t get enough script to develop their role.

My Rating: B-

IMDb user rating: 7.3/10

Rotten Tomatoes meter: 24%

Yahoo! critics: C-

Yahoo! users: A-