Great movie

Rating: 7/10 (24 May 2013)

Successful movies are those wherein you feel for the protagonist. As a viewer, it engages you with the movie, because you feel so much a part of it. This is exactly where the movie does really well. When Gerard Butler as the aggrieved father fails to get justice for the death of his wife and daughter because of legal complications, he chooses a path of intelligent vengeance. The way Gerard goes about his task with impunity is very engaging and compelling, because, all along, we can understand his angst at not getting justice. I started putting myself in Gerard's shoes and started feeling that I would have possibly done the same, if god forbid, I was ever in that situation. However, the tame ending was a disappointment and that is the reason why I give it a 7 instead of a full 10.