Law Abiding Citizen

Clyde Shelton is a family man, an inventor, whose family is brutally murdered right at the beginning of the film.  In the first two minutes actually.  So try not to get too attached.

Due to the vagaries of the US justice system, only a light sentence is imposed on those responsible.  

Ten years later, and bodies connected to the case start turning up.  The police pick up Clyde who seems unnaturally calm about the whole thing, and starts issuing veiled threats toward those responsible - but how can a man in custody harm anybody?

As it turns out, there's more to Clyde than meets the eye.

This is an intriguing thriller.  Gerard Butler plays Clyde, a man with an ingenious flair for forward planning.  Jamie Foxx plays the assistant DA who was partly responsible for the sentencing of the original killers and who sees his system being torn apart by a man bent on vengeance.  It's a morally ambiguous tale with more intelligence than a regular revenge thriller and one of the murders actually made Caro & me jump right out of our seats.

In short, I liked it.  Imagine a cross between Saw (but without the gore) Taken (but without the action) and Death Wish (but not so simplistic) and you've got the idea.  I see a lot of reviews on imdb whine about the ending, but they all appear to have missed the point of the film.  8/10