Would have been more interesting if the movie was about Clyde Shelton!

Rating: 6/10 (18 January 2010)

On an ordinary night, a brutal crime takes place upon an innocent family, Clyde Shelton watches helplessly as two criminals take the lives of his wife and child. But during the trial, one of the killers is let go, due to his testimony....Shelton, a broken man cannot understand as to why Nick, the prosecutor has accepted a deal?
I was quite interested by the trailer, but what I got was fair different...I thought Gerard Butler did a tremendous job as the broken man, I nearly cried as he pleaded to Nick for help, not to let the killer go free, and felt his blood-lust when he gave the criminals their own medicine...I thought Jamie Fox slowed this movie down, he just didn't cut it as the no nonsense prosecutor, I loved the man in Collateral and Miami Vice, but here...He just couldn't step up to the mark. I personally felt that it would have been an entirely different animal if they concentrated solely on Clyde...The ending was terrible...no closure whatsoever....It wasn't all bad...I laughed at times, and was genuinely fascinated by how Clyde was able to do what he was doing....But the ending ruined what potentially could have been a good movie.