Another nasty vigilante picture.

Rating: 3/10 (14 June 2019)

Another vigilante revenge movie purporting to be, amongst other things, a kind of anti-capital punishment picture and all the nastier and more unpleasant for that. F. Gary Gray's "Law Abiding Citizen" is just another piece of torture porn but with bigger names in the cast. Gerard Butler is the man out to avenge the murder of his wife and daughter and Jamie Foxx, the District Attorney who let one of the killers walk free. Watching Foxx mug his way through this mediocre script it's hard to believe he once won an Oscar for Best Actor but what's really sad is this picture actually has quite an ingenious plot, but one that is very badly handled. Shot on location around Philadelphia it's a handsome enough looking picture even if you may want to avert your eyes from the screen from time to time. The final 'twist', when it comes, is just plain silly.