Law Abiding Citizen

Got tickets to catch the premiere screening of Law Abiding Citizen, thanks to Nuffnang.

You can read it up on Wikipedia, but it practically gives everything away. I'm just saying.

Here's the gist of the movie...

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. 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. 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. With his own family now in Shelton’s crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.

I checked everything but the run time, so I wasn't sure how long it was gonna be - 108 minutes according to IMDB. A few things probably got cut out :P

It was unpredictable yet predictable at some parts of the movie - like the cliched death scenes.

1. Glad that for once it's an "original" screenplay and not some adaptation.
   
2. Also glad that Jamie Foxx and Butler decided to switch roles - really cannot see Foxx as the sociopath.
3. Why wasn't Jamie Foxx's character's family die? I was kinda half expecting that it would happen. Oh well.
4. F-bombs were let in, but not the (gratuitous) nekkid scene when the police were coming to arrest Gerard Butler - sadness.
5. Perhaps it's just me, but I can still hear Gerard Butler's Scottish accent in this movie, so I'm not sure whether his character's a Scotsman or not.
   

Found this on the internets...

Long story short - it's not bad, but if you're squeamish about blood and gore, well... you've been warned.