Dir: F. Gary Gray
2009
**
The first two thirds of Law Abiding Citizen are awesome and slap in the face refreshing. The last third of this film is beyond awful. This could have been a great film, instead, it flushed itself down the toilet. Was this the original ending or did the producers intervene I wonder? I don't want to give away the plot or ending to anyone who hasn't seen it but basically, the film revolves around the actions of a guy, who for the last decade, has been setting up a brilliant plan of revenge, that only works due to immaculate precision, timing and extensive planning. All this cleverness is spoiled at the end because the laws of time and distance are completely ignored, thus throwing any amount of intelligence this film might have had and kicking it straight out the window. If the ultimate message was 'No matter how hard you try, you can't mess with the system' then maybe it would work but it doesn't and any film that has a slimy lawyer win is a bad film in my book. A horrendous wasted opportunity and a huge disappointment.
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