a very bad move for Jamie Foxx

Rating: Null/10 (16 October 2009)

I went to this film really wanting to like it. I thought it would be a sort of "Death Wish" remake. Charles Bronson's character lost his family like Gerard Butler's character did, but he only killed criminals. Even though Butler's character suffered a terrible loss, you cannot feel sorry for him because he killed innocent people and in the end was no better then the men who murdered his wife and daughter. Jamie Foxx is a fine actor and I lauded his performance in The Soloist earlier this year, but he should have passed on this film. This movie seems to have a preoccupation with graphic violence. SPOILER Alert, that scene with the Judge and the cell phone and where Foxx's lovely assistant gets cooked in her car were very disturbing and one of the reasons that I did not like this film. The only good thing about Law Abiding Citizen is that it does raise serious questions about our legal system and how justice often fails.