LAW ABIDING CITIZEN - MY REVIEW

Hi Guyzzz I saw this movie couple of days back and I liked the movie somewhat..the movie stars Gerrard Butler and Jamie Fox(I wudve liked Denzel Washington to play that role) and its got the same storyline of A WEDNESDAY (Now didnt we people compare AVATAR and VIETNAM COLONY ??) but with a lil more violence and twists..This is the 2nd Gerrared Butler movie I am watching after the magnificent "300" (Leonidas)...actually this wudve been the 3rd movie had I watched the recent movie "GAMER"(I started watching and soon stopped coz it was like watching someone else playing a PS3 game) which I have in my collection..


The movie starts with 2 goons murdering Clyde's (Butler's screen name) wife and daughter while he was lying half unconscious...the culprits were caught by the cops and they were produced before the court and Nick (Jamie Fox) was chosen as Clyde's lawyer...Nick is a highly successful attorney with a 96% conviction rate and he is keen to maintain that statistics so when one of the goons agreed to testify against the other in exchange of lesser punishment Nick accepts that offer without getting approval from Clyde and Clyde was angered by this act and he asks Nick why cant they try to get both capital punishment without making a deal with the criminal since they know that they are culprits and Nick says that in a court room what matters is not TRUTH but what can be PROVEN…this incident made Clyde lose faith in the entire system….

The next scene happens after 10 years and now Nick is a succesful senior attorney with a wife and kid…and we are invited to watch the execution of one of the persons (the other got away with a prison sentence) convicted for murdering Clyde's family…the execution was supposed to be quick and painless (lethal injection) but when the chemical went thru the veins the person starts screaming and twitching and his veins started to bulge and eyes almost popped out and everybody was stunned/terrified and it took couple of minutes (instead of the few seconds it normally takes) for the convict to die and he died a painful death….this incident was investigated and they found a paper with words "YOU CANNOT FIGHT FATE" and they thinks that this was done by the crook who testified againt this fellow (coz that was a line he often quoted) but Jamie Fox realises that this was done by someone who has got connections and brains and he decided that it must be Clyde….meanwhile a SWAT team was sent to capture Darby (The TESTIFIER) but Darby was tipped by an anonymous call and the voice over the fone tells Darby how to evade the pursuing cops and Darby unknowing walsk into the trap set by Clyde for him….Clyde poisons him with an exotic venom (which paralyses ur body but does not numb your senses..thats even though u cant move a limb you will feel pain when pricked or poked) and ties him to a cot and slowly chops of his limbs one and kills him eventually by and captures that in a camera(He will be wearing a mask all thru out this scene) and sends it to Nick and Nick confirms that its none other than Clyde who is behind all this and they arrests him and puts him behind bars but even sitting inside his cell he manages to eliminate his targets one by one and then Nick realises that Clyde is no small fish and later he comes to know from a secret agent that Clyde used to work for the Government and he was their best THINK TANK/STRATEGIST who cud think few steps ahead of the enemy and he also warns NICK "If Clyde wants you DEAD then you will be DEAD"….the movie is about the CAT and MOUSE game Clyde plays with Nick and the authorities…


I said its theme is similar to A WEDNESDAY coz in A WEDNESDAY our hero is a common man who is angered by the acts of terrorists and becomes a ONE MAN ARMY and in this movie hero is a person who is felt cheated by the judicial system and wages a war against the system(HELL HATH NO FURY LIKE A MAN WRONGED)….in hindi movie we had Anupam Kher as an equally sharp law enforcement agent whereas in English movie we have a sharp legal professional…it’s a battle of wits between both that’s the crux of the story (otherwise the scenes and situations are entirely different)…just the basic thread is similar…..



My opinion

1) I felt it’s an entertaining movie…

2) Some scenes were a bit unbelievable…but anyway if everything is too believable then wheres the fun ??

3) I wouldve liked a different climax….

4) Denzel Washington wudve been a better choice but if he was cast then Gerard wudnt be able to match his performance…it wudvebeen an uneven match…

5) The plot cudve been a lil more tidy…