When it comes to thriller movies today, no one tries to re-invent an idea. Many movies today are now squeals or movies greatly influenced off of old movies. The amount of effort to develop a new idea seems like too much work for film makers. They have a good motive, why take all the time to develop a new idea when they could just take 3 of their favorite movies, and combine them.
Law Abiding Citizen stars Gerald Butler, who plays a grieving father who has had his wife and daughter killed 10 years in the past. Jamie Foxx plays a lawyer who settled the case letting one of the murders serve only 3 years in prison. After 10 years, Gerald Butler’s character comes back to seek his own bloody revenge. At the begininng of the film, you feel for Butler’s character, and you want to see him spread havoc through the justice system, but near the movies closing, your not so sure. the moral choices he makes could be classifid as good and evil. As an audience member, your torn on who to root for. all in all, this is a very smart thriller and it certainly is refreshing to see a new idea for a genre like this.
Go see it. 8.5/10
