Law Abiding? Citizen

Rating: 9/10 (7 May 2010)

Law abiding citizen was a fantastic thriller about a man who tries to enforce the law when it overlooks his wife and daughter's murderer. Gerard Butler is seemingly the good guy in this movie. Everyone can sympathize with the man. The murderer deserved to be punished for what he did. He deserved death and all he got was a slap on the wrist. This is just another movie where we find ourselves rooting for the guy shedding all the blood. My problem with this movie is that it provokes the thought in everyone's mind that it is okay to disobey the law as long as it is for a good reason. Regardless of the fact that the law makes mistakes, we as citizens are still called to obey the authority set in place above us. While it is good to see justice done to the corrupt authorities, this movie like many others like it provokes an anarchist point of view. This is a great movie that is extremely well done. However, my caution is that you watch it and don't allow yourself to believe that what Gerard Butler is doing is okay. It is not okay to murder no matter how just it seems.