A good movie if you are looking for action and gore.

Rating: 6/10 (9 January 2011)

Warning: this review contains spoilers.
Plot: Law Abiding Citizen is about Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) as a criminal prosecutor, and Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) as a victim of a horrific crime.
It starts with Clyde Sheltons (Gerard Butlers) normal family life being rudely interrupted by the brutal rape of his wife and vicious murder of both his wife and child by two burglars. While Shelton himself, also being stabbed, is laying helplessly on the floor bleeding.
Nick Rice (Jame Foxx) is prosecuting the two men who did it. To maintain his prosecution rate, Rice decides to cut a deal with the murderer, without telling Shelton. He lets the real guilty one of the two burglars get less prison time, letting the other one go to death row.
10 years later Nick Rice is a family man himself with a wife and child. They are all attending the execution of the same burglar when things start to go wrong. The man being executed is violently shaking and screaming before he dies. Rice finds out that the injection modules are tampered with. He suspects the other burglar did it (the real rapist and murderer), who is now a free man. When he arrives at the suspect's house the murderer is just getting away, thanks to telephone instructions of his victim, Clyde Shelton. Shelton is guiding him out of the hands of the police. Not to help him, but to systematically torture and kill him.
Clyde Shelton is arrested but is playing a very clever cat and mouse game with Rice and the police, he sets demands, or other people involved in the case will start to die. When they actually start doing so, Rice does everything in his power to stop Shelton, before it is too late.
Review: 5.5 out of 10, I found this movie not very good. Even though the plot is well thought out, the action is not bad, and this movie has real nasty gore scenes. The acting is pretty good and it isn't boring either, I simply found the movie very wrong.
While watching this movie I could not help thinking that the creators where set out to confront people with as much torture, murder and violence as possible. They created a grand display of erosion of the US constitution. The movie makes the viewer personificate with the victim of the crimes, Shelton, who initially seems to expose the flaws of the United States Justice Department.
When Shelton actually turns in to a murdering terrorist the viewer will feel as if they should never have doubted the US Justice Department. Full fledged police state propaganda follows with random police checkpoints and warrantless searches. The police bending the law is all accepted to keep people safe. Nick Rice turns from criminal prosecutor, to police investigator, to District Attorney in a matter of days.
I found the end disturbing where Rice decides to become a murderer, and kill off the imprisoned Shelton himself, to prevent more from dying. It ends when he coldly smiles watching his daughter play the cello after that.
I also don't like Jamie Foxx for some reason, so this review may not be entirely objective. Go watch this, if Jamie Foxx and police propaganda do not bother you, and if you like movies that contain rape torture and gore.