Decent revenge thriller with the dumbest ending in movie history

Rating: 5/10 (31 December 2009)

I had minimum expectation from this movie after seeing the promo. But for the first half of the movie, it was quite interesting. It increased my curiosity a bit but second half ruined it all. And the ending is so lame that even a 10 year old boy will laugh at its stupidity.
The plot revolves around Clyde Shelton( Gerrard Butler), a scientist whose family is killed by robbers and he fails to get justice when the assistant DA Nick Rice ( Jamie Foxx) makes a deal with one of the accused to witness against other innocent robber against the will of Clyde. Then comes the usual revenge action drama where in Clyde takes on not only the robbers but everyone involved in the case.
There is nothing new in the story but pacing is good in first half.. in fact till the climax it is a good thriller. The main plot derives heavily from Dark knight where in the protagonist stays in the jail and operates his master plan. Even the killing are somewhat like SAW. But for me the problem with this movie was lack of surprises. I mean this kind of action/thriller needs a good element of surprise to keep audience glued to the movie but this movie lacks it.
Coming to my main problem- the ending. I will not spoil anything but this gotta be the lamest ending i have ever seen. The little curiosity build from the beginning is ruined in the end and you feel like you have wasted 110 min of your life.
Coming to performances, Gerrard Butler does a good job and Foxx has nothing to show in this movie. Leslie Bibb is hot(as ever). The movie does emphasize on how lame our judicial system works but it needed some good writing to make that effective.
Overall this movie has major flaws. Give it a try on DVD if you like the genre or else skip this junk.
Pluses: Decent first half with good action
Minuses: Predictable plot with no thrills and the dumbest climax
5/10 from me...