A highly implausible and surprisingly lurid revenge flick where lawyers and judges stand in for street-dwelling scumbags,
Law Abiding Citizen blasts out of the barrel with an unsettlingly intimate act of violence and doesn’t pull any punches in detailing one man’s war against a corrupt justice system. And while director F. Gary Gray and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer’s tense tale of vengeance and grief delivers some nasty surprises that send it careening dangerously close to
Saw territory (especially early on), it does manage to raise some thought-provoking questions regarding the ethics of the swaggering legal eagles whose actions sometimes prove more self-s...
Released:
2009
Rated:
R
Length:
108 mins