A pretty good film....

Rating: 8/10 (20 February 2010)

The "At the Movies" guys dumped all over this film, which just tells me that "At the Movies" needs to be dumped.
The plot line is that an inventor's (Gerard Butler, who got a producing credit) wife and child are murdered by a pair of home intruders. The protagonist, a prosecutor played by Jaime Foxx, proceeds to cut a deal with the more guilty to get a death penalty conviction against the least culpable of the pair. He feels sick about it.
Flash forward a decade later. The criminal is about to be executed, but someone switches his lethal injection drug with something that causes far more pain. His accomplice is manipulated into running from the cops into the hands of the Inventor, who proceeds to murder him by painfully dismembering the guy, and filming it.
The movie continues as a battle of wits between Butler and Fox, as the bodies pile up.
The movie has some outright implausible plot devices, but it is entertaining, and even predictable shots are handled with such deft that they still shock.
Also, a shout out to Colm Meany, the only guy from Star Trek Deep Space Nine who is still acting... He plays a tough Irish detective.