That all too human need for payback has driven such films as "Ben-Hur," "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "Kill Bill," "Pulp Fiction" and many others.Īlso, much like Robert Mitchum in the 1962 classic "Cape Fear," Clyde presents a compelling blend of film noir malevolence and the cracked remnants of a once whole human being. Most of this bloodbath happens when Clyde is in jail.īut, throughout this taut ride Butler and Foxx blur the lines between hero and victim.
That's the difference, so he tells us, between him and the people he slaughters. He saws people up and blows Nick's colleagues to smithereens.Ĭlyde's a killer committed to justice, not vengeance. Equipped with 1,001 high-tech gizmos, he infiltrates death row and kills. The story picks up a decade later, when mild-mannered Clyde emerges as an Einstein of annihilation. It's what you can prove," Nick tells his client, unmoved by Clyde's horror when a plea bargain sets the guilty parties free. Sadly, this wronged "Ordinary Joe" gets screwed by the legal system and the D.A.
Surviving the attack, this good family man puts his trust in hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx). Clyde Shelton, Butler's outraged anti-hero, sees his wife and young daughter brutally murdered by two thugs. In the film's first moments a heinous home invasion takes place, one that leaves audiences wincing.
Think of Daniel Craig's James Bond meets Charles Bronson in "Death Wish." That barely covers the pyrotechnic payback Butler exacts in this flick - and his revenge is fast, furious and nicely chilled. Gary Gray ("The Italian Job") instantly slaps moviegoers with one message: This is not your ordinary payback tale. This taut thriller from American director F. Gerard Butler isn't buying that one in "Law Abiding Citizen."
Some say the noblest revenge is to forgive those who dare mistreat you.
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