One Of The Worst Vigilante Movies Ever Made

Rating: 4/10 (19 October 2009)

I guess every actor sooner or later finds himself in the position that Denzel Washington found himself in with "Fallen" and "Law Abiding Citizen" is certainly Jamie Foxx's low point. I was looking forward to this because I thought it was going to be a drama about an "every day guy" (as advertised) taking the law into his own hands after his family is brutally murdered, but instead it turned out to be about an unbelievable super spook somehow wreaking vengeance on all the wrong people in a truly ridiculous, boring and uninspired tale of misguided revenge. Gerard Butler's interpretation of Anthopny Hopkins in Fracture or Kevin Spacey in Seven only kept the momentum going for a little while until the completely absurd plot took over. This is one of those movies where you are expected to suspend your disbelief indefinitely but unfortunately, the nagging question lingers that if this guy is able to concoct and exact such elaborate plots from a solitary confinement prison cell, then why couldn't he defend his own wife and child in his own home to begin with. Silly, stupid, and a waste of time. Let's hope Jamie Foxx holds out for something better next time.