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Law Abiding Citizen

2009 1h 49m
Drama Crime Thriller
MOVIEVIBE Rating
7.4/10
5,846 reviews
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Law Abiding Citizen

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

"Justice at any cost."

Top Billed Cast

Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx
Nick Rice
Gerard Butler
Gerard Butler
Clyde Alexander Shelton
Colm Meaney
Colm Meaney
Detective Dunnigan
Bruce McGill
Bruce McGill
Jonas Cantrell
Leslie Bibb
Leslie Bibb
Sarah Lowell
Michael Irby
Michael Irby
Detective Garza
Gregory Itzin
Gregory Itzin
Warden Iger
Regina Hall
Regina Hall
Kelly Rice

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

J John Chard Verified TMDB Critic
2014-06-06

You can’t fight fate. Right?

Gerard Butler stars as Clyde Shelton, a man forced to not only watch his wife and daughter be raped and murdered in his own home, but to also have to sit there and watch the justice system fail him. So he wages a one man war against pretty much everyone involved.

Hoo-Hah! The big hitting critics hated it, with comments ranging from it being sub-normal, preposterous, ugly and morally corrupt, to it being a comic book film of moral hectoring! Naturally, as the critics were at pains to point out that it would, it made a pot load at the box office and is gener...

V vylmen Verified TMDB Critic
2024-11-27

Not the ending I wanted

Some movies you want the bad guy to win and this is one of them. There's a few things missing here, like the setup that Clyde is really this smart inventor guy leading a double life. That could've used some secret door behind a front working in a lab kind of shots. And that Nick Rice is actually smarter, cause he wasn't. Other than that, it does keep you on your toes, mostly to see what Clyde comes up with and how he's going to fix the broken justice system....