good conquering evil

Rating: 6/10 (29 March 2010)

Clyde: "Well, that's what this movie was about:good conquering evil,the righteous prospering,the wicked suffering.
Nick: "I didn't get that."
Rarely will you find a film that both screams for vigilante justice and then cautions against it. A very primal part of me imagines all sorts of horrible revenge scenarios against purveyors of cruelty. However there is an old Chinese proverb, " He who seeks revenge should remember to dig two graves."
If it were not for this moral conflict, Law Abiding Citizen could have easily become just another vendetta film. For some audiences there will be no inner conflict. After the horrifying first scene, some may ask why we are being asked to question Clyde's beautifully crafted payback. Sometimes a Charlie Bronson solution is the simplest.