Nice to watch but failed to make a point

Rating: 8/10 (22 September 2010)

I think expectations of a lot of people were to see a great vengeance movie with simple plot and a lot of action that makes you really feel the story.
When you think about the story from morality point it all makes sense - even if justice system fails you can't take matters in your own hands or you will become no better than the criminals. This is quite a common point in Hollywood movies.
But somehow it didn't fell right. I think most of the people were sympathetic to the Clyde and he was killed too soon. You leave the theater with mixed feelings about the ending (mostly bad feelings).
The story is not trivial - usually in vengeance movies there is a good guy and a bad guy - you can imagine the rest :) Here there are no good guys. Clyde's character is not simple - on one hand he gets his revenge but on the other he kills a lot of people that obviously didn't deserve to die (punished - yes, but killed - not). Nick looks like bad character, but we can see his justification so in the end he is not so bad.
But still making Clyde die and leave Nick completely unpunished and even promoted just doesn't seem right. What point did this movie tried to make? Justice is corrupt but you can;t do anything about it? Vengeance is not good for you?
In any case this is a great movie that makes you think "Why?" for a while after you watch it :)