Too easy

Rating: 4/10 (30 April 2011)

This movie is, really, disappointing. It was promising with such a good cast : Foxx, Butler... Butler's family is killed, okay. Foxx is a bit corrupted by his ego, why not. Butler first seeks revenge on the 2 murderers, logic. And he is looking to be caught, now we're talking! He's making scale models of ancient engineering system : hm, he's smart and meticulous. Wait, why is he getting naked before getting caught by the police? Never mind... So basically, he makes deals with Foxx in exchange of information, confessions, to teach him : first that he's smarter, then that Foxx should keep his word, blablabla, everyone must be held accountable for their actions, it's gonna be biblical, blablabla. It was all too predictable for the murders, and completely out of proportion.
Basically, Butler wants to teach Foxx a lesson by killing other peoples. And to do that, a smart guy like him, is going batshit insane on the entire city to prove his point about the justice being corrupted. First you're sorry for him that his family has been killed, then you're kinda impressed by how he's playing this cat/mouse game, and finally you don't understand anything because of the missing explanations about a whole lot of things and of the lack of logic into the screenplay. Foxx finally learn his lesson, but after breaking some of his principles. So, he didn't really learned anything... And "the hard part isn't making the decision, it's living with it" (which is wrong : the hard part is making the right decision, it's called thinking, otherwise it's just a cheap excuse to be incompetent) right after Foxx's mea culpa to his mentor (whose short term fate is so obvious, like telling someone you love him right before he starts his bombed car...) is just unbelievable.
Seriously : it's just too easy. The villain is way ahead everyone, just too evil. The good guys are also the bad guys because in one way they made the villain who he is today (doesn't ring a bell?). The movie is murder after murder after murder, and the conclusion is something like "you should live with your decisions but I didn't and I still don't but just this one time, after all, one more won't hurt eh?".
This is nothing more than a popcorn movie, but with this cast, it's so disappointing, like if Heat would have ended up with De Niro staying with his girlfriend and killing her so he won't have anything to lose : it makes no sense.