getthebigpicture.net - 10/16/2009
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Law Abiding Citizen
Starring Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, and Leslie Bibb
Directed by F. Gary Gray
Rated R
About a dozen years ago, the British evolutionist Richard Dawkins wrote a book called Climbing Mount
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Law Abiding Citizen Review
filmofilia.com 10/15/2009 —
Remember Charles Bronson in Death Wish? Law Abiding Citizen offers a taste of no-mercy vigilante family-man justice 3.0. Ten years after his wife and daughter were slaughtered in front of him, Clyde Shelton ( Gerard Butler ) kidnaps one of the perpetrators, straps him down to a torture ...
Review: ''Law Abiding Citizen''
miamiherald.typepad.com 10/15/2009 — When Peter Finch got fed up with the system in Network, he took his anger to the TV airwaves and yelled, "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not gonna take this anymore!'' When Gerard Butler gets fed up with...
Review: Did you ever see… The Negotiator?
heyuguys.co.uk 10/15/2009 — This week sees the release of Law Abiding Citizen. The story of a man, played by Gerard Butler, who is forced to watch his family murdered. When the District Attorney makes a shady deal with the defendants, Butler takes matters into his own hands.
The director is F Gary Gray. You may ...
Movie Review: “Law Abiding Citizen” —
The Screening Log
Seen on: October 16, 2009
The players: Director: F. Gary Gray, Writer: Kurt Wimmer, Cast: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Colm Meaney, Bruce McGill, Leslie Bibb
Facts of interest: None.
The plot: After one of the men who killed his family gets a light prison sentence, a desperate widower ...
Law Abiding Citizen - What Did I Think? —
Fused Film
So many of you have gotten to see my video review of the film but now I can write a little more detail and thoughts of the film which stars Gerard Butler and Jaimie Foxx.
Law Abiding Citizen is a spectacular thriller combining the violent nature of revenge with the evoking emotion of ...
Review: Law Abiding Citizen —
Cinematical
As a kid I remember reading in either CRACKED or MAD magazine a parody about movie heroes and villains. The story pointed out how, very often, heroes are much ruder and less well behaved than villains. For example, James Bond will burst into an enemy hideout; the villain will remark, "ah... ...
Review: LAW ABIDING CITIZEN —
We Are Movie Geeks
Have you ever felt slighted by the law? Felt like justice wasn’t served, or that the law was working more in their own favor than in yours? This is the underlying theme, the philosophical question at hand, which runs throughout LAW ABIDING CITIZEN. This is a movie whose title I felt ...
Review: Law Abiding Citizen Entertains —
Film.com Movie Blog
"Pure entertainment." We generally turn to movies for one of three things: entertainment, education, or enlightenment. The Oscar films usually toe the divide between entertainment and enlightenment, biopics offer a spoonful of education, and the summer blockbusters are ...
Movie Review: Law Abiding Citizen (2009) —
RopeofSilicon.com
Gerard Butler in Law Abiding Citizen
Photo: Overture Films
"Some justice is better than no justice at all," says Jamie Foxx playing Nick Price, a Philadelphia prosecutor in charge of bringing justice to the two men that killed Clyde Shelton's (Gerard Butler) wife and young daughter in ...
Theatrical Review: LAW ABIDING CITIZEN —
gordonandthewhale.com
Rating: 5/10
Writer: Kurt Wimmer
Director: F. Gary Gray
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Leslie Bibb
Studio: Overture Films
When watching a movie it is relatively easy to realize who you are supposed to root for, the protagonist usually emerging early on. Once we know who ...
Law Abiding Citizen Review —
Screen Rant
Short Version: Law Abiding Citizen is a satisfying (and at times funny) revenge movie that unfortunately loses its way in the last 20 minutes.
Screen Rant reviews Law Abiding Citizen
It seems like Law Abiding Citizen is one in a series of husband/father avenges the ...
Law Abiding Citizen —
Movie Mom
This is not just a bad film; it is a despicable one. The slim but highly profitable torture porn genre has now begun to permeate major studio films directed at a general audience and the result is this dim-witted thriller...
Law Abiding Citizen – Review —
Inside Pulse Movies
Gerard Butler makes revenge a dish served too cold for an Eskimo
Image Courtesy of IMPawards.com
Director: F. Gary Gray
Notable Cast: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler
The revenge film has made an interesting comeback since the events of September 11, 2001. From The Brave One and both ...
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Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
Kind of fun, if you can ignore its politics If a thousand BostonHerald.com commenters chained to a thousand typewriters produced a movie script, it would probably read an awful lot like F. Gary Gray’s vigilante-revenge thriller.