Could have been an interesting film

Rating: 2/10 (10 July 2010)

Law Abiding Citizen could have been an interesting film that asked an important moral question; instead we get a violent, holey mess with a stupid ending. No character is redeeming but the wounded husband and father garners the most sympathy till he starts killing lots of people to make his point (not a spoilers since all of the trailers clearly show this fact). The movie would have been much better if he had put the officials in the corrupt criminal justice system under their own knives instead of just killing them. It had the potential to be a movie similar to Absence of Malice or Runaway Jury. But the story is poor, a perfect example being Foxx's character running around like a cop instead of a prosecuting attorney. You don't see the guys in Law and Order running around the streets catching criminals.