Very good movie but a ending letdown

Rating: 8/10 (22 December 2009)

The movie is about a man whos family is brutally murdered by couple of burglars but he himself survived. Now the law system screws him over. First of all they make the criminal who actually did the killing to confess against he's partner who was there but who did't actually kill or injure anyone. Now the so to say innocent guy gets the penalty of death but the real cold blooded killer gets only 5 years.
After 10 years the husband to a murdered wife and father to a murdered daughter wants the revenge and not only against the criminal who killed them but against the system too. He develops a clever plot how to kill the guy who murdered he's family, how to get thrown into jail and how to teach system a lesson by killing off the people involved in that case. The irony moments are as he uses all the laws and rights to bargain himself a better food, better bed and basically make mockery out of justice system. Then he does start killing of the law twisting people including judge, the family murderers lawyer etc. Since he is in he's cell nobody can understand how he does it. At one point he gives a DA a chance to save everyone by dropping the charges and letting him go which the DA denies. That in my opinion is one pretty important moment. Basically he says "hey you let the murderer who killed my wife and daughter walk, I got my revenge, now let me walk too and we call it even".
Sadly last 15-20 minutes ruin the movie for me. And the reason is obvious - first the system screws innocent victim over excusing itself as "the law must be strict and respect civil rights even if its unfair". But at the end all he's civil rights are trampled upon and then its okey to bend the law and of course for the cherry on the cake they just kill him at the end. So the moral of the movie is that victims get screwn over many times - first by the criminals, then by the law and then again by the law.
If they wanted to make a decent ending then in my opinion there's two options: First: DA proves fair and square how he broke the law, snuck out of he's solitary cell and killed many people. He gets a death sentence or lifetime but the idea is that DA does everything by the book and has now learned he's lesson. The moral would then be that no matter the situation the system will be strict and will not back down and bend the rules. At the moment system got more and more corrupt as the movie progressed.
Second: Since the system wanted to get him so badly at the end that they broke he's civil rights all the charges are dropped and he walks away as the free man but everyone have now learned their lesson and the moral is that changes are needed. That would have been best solution for the end.