Hardly a brilliant movie.

Rating: 5/10 (1 March 2012)

If it had been spelt out clearly that Justice should always take precedence over Law, maybe it would have been a better movie.
Pity our legal systems do not allow such clarity of purpose.
As it is, we are often left guessing about the motivation of the main character.
Perhaps that is not the message, as it is not really made clear.
Towards the end, the message appears to be not to negotiate with murderers, even through plea bargaining, and even if that means all guilty parties escape any kind of justice.
This is of course idealistic nonsense as we do not live in an ideal world.
However, the action sequences are quite interesting, even amusing, and the torture scene is reminiscent of Dexter.
Overall, though, the movie does not really work, and at the end the main character could have easily escaped by using the exit from his cell that he had engineered previously.
This is such an obvious oversight I cannot but wonder at the mentality of the producers.
Perhaps this was left as a possible device for a sequel, but I think that is a bit far-fetched as the movie clearly shows his death.
Not that I think for an instant that any sequel could be justified, but then I am not a movie director or producer.