Additionally, the ending was wrapped up so quickly I was left with a slightly spinning head!Īlthough far from the best movie I have seen so far this year, Law Abiding Citizen does what it says on the tin and delivers an engaging enough film to entertain you, and coming in at 108 minutes is the perfect length. What was a robbery took a sinister turn very quickly and there was no real rhyme or reason to it and I felt it was really just shoved into the first five minutes to get it over and done with. The one really big gripe I had with this movie, though, was the murder of the family.
The similarities are limited in most respects, but the memorable bad guy pulling the strings and manipulating the system really brought me back to that initial feeling of watching Silence Of The Lambs. I have a feeling this description is going to come back to bite me but I see this as sort of a hyper modern-day version of Silence Of The Lambs. Foxx, in many ways, seems to be phoning in his performance and you almost yearn for him to switch himself on to add a bit of something, while Butler plays the role of a man totally obsessed by grief and out for revenge inwardly, making him slightly creepy and even more dangerous, as you never know what he is going to do next. That is the premise of Law-Abiding Citizen.
Some movies are preposterous, know they are preposterous, and are. The two leads play well enough off each other, but there isn’t really the sort of chemistry you would hope for. Jamie Foxx desperately tries (and fails) to find logic in the abysmal Law Abiding Citizen.
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