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Title: Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jamie Foxx | ... | Nick Rice | |
| Gerard Butler | ... | Clyde Shelton | |
| Colm Meaney | ... | Detective Dunnigan | |
| Bruce McGill | ... | Jonas Cantrell | |
| Leslie Bibb | ... | Sarah Lowell | |
| Michael Irby | ... | Detective Garza | |
| Gregory Itzin | ... | Warden Iger | |
| Regina Hall | ... | Kelly Rice | |
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Emerald-Angel Young | ... | Denise Rice (as Emerald Angel Young) |
| Christian Stolte | ... | Clarence Darby | |
| Annie Corley | ... | Judge Laura Burch | |
| Richard Portnow | ... | Bill Reynolds | |
| Viola Davis | ... | Mayor | |
| Michael Kelly | ... | Bray | |
| Josh Stewart | ... | Rupert Ames (as Joshua Stewart) | |
Clyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered. The ones responsible are caught. However, because of improper procedure, the D.A., Nick Rice only has circumstantial evidence. So he decides to get one of them to testify against the other. When Shelton learns of this, he is not happy. Ten years later, the one who was convicted is being executed but something goes wrong; his execution goes awry and he suffers. They learn that someone tampered with the machine. And the other one is found dead, killed in a gruesome manner. Rice suspects Shelton, so he has him picked up. At first, Shelton agrees to a plea agreement with Rice but changes his mind. It appears that Shelton is not done, it appears he blames the whole system and is declaring war on it going after everyone involved with his family's case. So Rice has to stop him but Shelton is way ahead of him. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com
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Clyde Shelton's ( Gerard Butler ) wife gets murdered in the beginning of the movie and justice doesn't prevail because one of the killers is only sentenced for 10 years. Clyde is angry as hell and will make sure the people responsible for the horrible trial of the killers will all suffer and die. So basically you got yourself a revenge movie here. Clyde is killing them and isn't even hiding it, he admits it. Nick Rice ( Jamie Foxx ) is the DA on the case and needs to find out what the hell is going on. Now the fun part is that Clyde is performing the kills from within his prison cell, he even has to sit out in solitary and is still killing people, now how cool is that.
I totally dig the idea of a highly intelligent man orchestrating kills on specific times and places from his prison cell, all planned ahead of time. If you're a smart ass while watching this movie you'll find out there are a lot of plot holes so I recommend you not to think it all through. Heads up for Gerard Butler, this guy is making some mayor progress on this one after some sh!tty movies last year. I think we'll be seeing more of King Leonidas in the future so hurray to that. On the opposite, Jamie Foxx is on a decline. Ray was an excellent movie but after that it's just bad. As Nick Rice the DA he is just one stone face mofo, no emotion no nothing. Jamie and the ending of the movie are the only 2 things that suck. The movie is just handing out it's surprises like candy, like spoiling your daughter's birthday present a week before her actual birthday. Watch it with a time progress bar and stop the movie before the last 15 minutes, then close your eyes and make up your own ending and I promise you it will be way better then the awful piece of movie you just skipped...