Monday, March 7, 2011

Law Abiding Citizen

Most people feel safer when someone gets locked up for committing a non-victimless crime; but what if a murderer was still keeping people while he is locked up? In Law Abiding Citizen, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a prosecutor, faces the problem of stopping Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler), whose only goal is to show the legal system how ineffective it is. 10 years after one of his wife and child’s murderers gets off too easy by making a deal to point his finger at his partner; the other partner is being put to death. After being injected, the man appears to be going through extreme torturous pain; normally who has been lethally injected shows no physical sign of pain. A little bit later, the other partner, whom got off easy, is found dead, and has been literally cut apart piece by piece. Naturally, Clyde Shelton is a suspect. When he is brought in for interrogation, Shelton vaguely admits to Rice that he murdered the two. The prosecutor, feeling confident, they go to court with Shelton representing himself; however, Shelton comes out of nowhere with amazing legal knowledge. With a bunch of legal jargon being thrown, Shelton is able to get himself released. Rice gets pissed, Shelton then yells at the judge, for her being so stupid as to let a person just charged with murder back out on the streets. Shelton gets thrown back in jail. While in jail, Shelton warns that people will start dying who were involved in his family’s murder trial. Rice is on a race against time to stop Shelton before his own family becomes victims in Shelton’s lesson he is trying to teach. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes action, suspense, and a little drama. It will also open your eyes to what goes on in our system, and how they deal with people who commit crimes, and get away too “easy”.


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