"In my experience,..., lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten."

Rating: 6/10 (10 April 2019)

The movie starts losing credibility right about the time Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) turns into a killing machine. It doesn't help, once he's incarcerated, that he manages to pull off the deaths of six Department of Justice employees, including lawyer Sarah Lowell (Leslie Bibb) working for the prosecution. Not quite the way one would go about garnering sympathy for the murder of his own wife and daughter. This was almost going to be one of those films in which the viewer becomes conflicted over the inadequacies of the justice system, but it becomes pretty clear that there's no one to root for here. Not even attorney Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), who's own frustration in dealing with Shelton turns him into an automoton seeking revenge instead of justice. Funny how a film titled "Law Abiding Citizen" turns out not to have any.