Hatred consumes

Rating: 8/10 (30 June 2010)

I joined IMDb to write this review as people seem to miss the point of the ending.
Butler is brilliant at portraying sheer helplessness at the beginning and the movie is well set up to show the result of 10 years of spiraling into hatred. There is that old proverb that 'less is more' but honestly Jamie Foxx just didn't give enough.
Smaller roles: Props for Darby and the informant, they did great jobs. Overall if you're wondering if you should see this movie. All I can really say is, the movie is terrific but there is one scene that made me (a 16 year old boy who watches his fair share of messed up stuff) cringe a hell of a lot. Other than that, you should watch this movie
Now for the ending. If you don't want spoilers stop reading now. Also before all of this movie defense I would like to say that the ending was pretty poor and it didn't explain most of the details in how it occurred. It just happened.
I agree that the circumstances are pretty off, a genius like Clyde probably wouldn't leave the cart outside the door and he probably would have booby-trapped the tunnel. However people saying that the ending is bad for the movie may have missed the point. Clyde was trying to show Foxx two things: 1 - Don't deal with murderers 2 - The system does not encourage justice, it is merely treated like an assembly line.
The only way Foxx was able to defeat Clyde was by breaking his civil rights. Without doing that he would not have found the escape route. Part of the reason Clyde smiled at the end was because he had won. Foxx broke his "god given" civil rights in order to defeat a psychopathic serial killer.