This COULD Have Been BIBLICAL!!!

Rating: 7/10 (26 February 2010)

"Law Abiding Citizen" opened here in the first week of this month. I was eagerly waiting for it because Gerard Butler, who plays Clyde Shelton is one of my fav actors. I like his acting very much. I loved Dracula, 300, Butterfly on a Wheel, P.S. I Love You, RocknRolla & the more recent, very sexist film The Ugly Truth. Gamer didn't release here, so I have to wait for it on cable.
The point is Gerard Butler's portrayal of characters always moves you, whether to a positive or negative for his role is always the viewer's choice. He is one of those actors who manages to pull you into his world (like Johnny Depp, but he's even more amazing).
In Law Abiding Citizen, he plays a father whose family is brutally murdered.. I rooted for his character from the opening scene. I won't go into the plot details too much. I didn't even have any issues with the director's twist of him as super-genius. In this 110 minutes roller coaster of a movie, the last 10 minutes is a slap in the face for us audiences. We had been anticipating so much more in the climax, than the lame excuse for a typical Hollywood ending. Aside from the last 10 minutes, this movie rocks & yeah I also didn't like the way they showed how he managed to kill all those people from his prison cell.
Butler says to Jamie Foxx's character Nick Rice that "This Will Be Biblical". It COULD have been BIBLICAL if the writers didn't get cold-feet at the last moment & made a pathetic ending. My recommendation would be to get out of the theater before the last 10 minutes, so you could go home with a satisfied feeling instead of going home dejected & trying to find all the possible cuss words for the director & writers. 7 on 10 for the very trashy ending. You may have seen that I didn't talk about Foxx or any other characters, that's because you don't give a damn about any of the others. It's Clyde all the way & we love it.
7/10