Even the film itself seems to be exhausted by the violence human beings are constantly inflicting on each other. At the big climax, when yet another gigantic explosion occurs, director Gray drains the sound out of the movie, so the bang arrives with a melancholic whoosh. Instead, the film flings that bloodlust back in your face. Soon, you just want the thing to end so you can go home.Īt least Law Abiding Citizen doesn’t stoke the viewer’s bloodlust. Even the gifted Foxx is unable to bring much life to his role.

The filmmakers also tip their hand as to whose side they’re really on, and you start to realize just how thinly written all the characters are. Unfortunately, the film runs into the dreaded Third Act Troubles: Never all that plausible to begin with, the plot becomes completely untethered from reality. The movie is less effective when Nick starts playing Sherlock Holmes to figure out how Clyde is able to keep killing people in highly ingenious manner after he’s sitting in a prison cell. When Nick asks, “You think your wife and daughter would feel good about you killing in their name?” Clyde shoots back, “My wife and daughter can’t feel anything: They’re dead.” Tell me that exchange doesn’t make you feel like tuning in to Rush Limbaugh, at least for a little while.

There were several better ways to have done the ending and still had the good guys win, but they wanted the HAPPY ending version of it, which is probably the part of it that upsets me the most.Law Abiding Citizen is best while making you contemplate those questions. Did it fit the story? No! They had to bring a character into the film out of just somone happening to know someone.the most lazy piece of garbage way to FORCE it into the story.

This movie was incredible, amazing, I LOVED IT ALL THE WAY!!! Then the ending hit, and it all just went to crap.Why? Because the good guy had to win. One of the most enraging examples of this, is Law Abiding Citizen. It seems to be Hollywood always trying to force the good guy wins into everything (except for cheesy horror films). Even when you have a 'villian' who you can understand and agree with, because they are doing it their way, and not the 'right' way, they lose in the end. Growing up TV shows and movies always wanted to pound it into our minds that the good guys always win, evil never prevails.

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