Great movie but falls apart in last 20 minutes

Rating: 7/10 (2 January 2014)

I really enjoyed this movie with a man gaining revenge on the people guilty of the murder of his wife and daughter as well as the people who let them go without proper punishment. I would have rated it much higher but for two factors, Jamie Foxx who isn't a great actor in my book and secondly, the way the story falls apart in the last 20 minutes and suddenly the hero is treated as the bad guy and the guilty prick becomes the hero, not to mention the hero who is so smart throughout the whole movie suddenly makes mistakes worthy of a bumbling crook not a mastermind. The movie starts out like it's going to be your typical thriller ala The Fugitive or Death Race, then turns into a pretty graphic revenge moments like you may expect from a movie like Saw before finishing off like a typical Hollywood movie with the hero saving the day (I get the feeling the end may have been done to accommodate typical audiences and/or studio heads). All in all a decent thriller and certainly worth a watch.