8 star movie, -3 stars for ending

Rating: 6/10 (7 August 2019)

Basically the ending of the movie is its undoing. There are 2 ways you could look at this movie: 1) Gerard Butler taking on and exposing a flawed justice system or 2) Jamie Foxx upholding a flawed justice system out of a sense of honor and some sort of "it may not be perfect but it's better than anarchy/vigilante justice/whatever" sentiment. The ending destroys both those ideas because not only does Butler fail to make any meaningful impact in the end (as he would doubtless only be remembered as a criminal/terrorist) but Foxx turns his back on the ideas of justice he's held throughout the movie by extrajudicially killing Butler (and probably a few others) and causing thousands of dollars of damage to a state prison.
So 8 star movie, -3 stars for the ending, but add another star because I loved Colm Meaney, on of my all time favorite star trek characters.