Law Abiding Citizen is a film flying completely under the radar at the moment, drowned out due to the sounds of children's screams exiting Where the Wild Things Are this weekend. But ignoring its seemingly unoriginal plot and massive pile of negative reviews, it's a...

When two men break into his house, kill his little girl, and rape and murder his wife, Clyde Shelton(Gerard Butler) is positive that the justice system will put both men behind bars and essentially on death row. However, when the police botch the forensics on the...

Revenge, How Sweet It Is? Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) doesn't realize that the door he is about to open will change his life forever. A random act of violence is about to drastically alter Clyde's life forever. Although Shelton can identify the culprits, hotshot...

After Clyde Shelton's [Gerard Butler] wife and daughter are murdered, Assistant D.A. Nick Rice [Jamie Foxx] makes a deal with one of the killers to put the other on death row. The deal maker pleads to third-degree murder and gets a remarkably short sentence. What Rice...

Overture Films' new psychological, thriller, movie “Law Abiding Citizen” brought a lot of mystery and suspense,as it debuted nationwide,this weekend. It starred : Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Bruce McGill, Colm Meaney, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby, Regina Hall, and...

[i]Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx deliver solid performances in a film designed to entertain.[/i] "Pure entertainment." We generally turn to movies for one of three things: entertainment, education, or enlightenment. The Oscar films usually toe the divide between...

The night after watching the recent horror release Paranormal Activity, I found myself having some difficulty getting to sleep as every sound in the house roused my attention. While Law Abiding Citizen is not the kind of film to stick with you like that, there is a...

[b]Rating: 8 out of 10[/b] Cast: Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice Gerard Butler as Clyde Shelton Colm Meaney as Detective Dunnigan Bruce McGill as Jonas Cantrell Leslie Bibb as Sarah Lowell Michael Irby as Detective Garza Gregory Itzin as Warden Iger Regina Hall as Kelly Rice...

[i]Gerard Butler makes revenge a dish served too cold for an Eskimo[/i] The revenge film has made an interesting comeback since the events of September 11, 2001. From The Brave One and both Punisher films to Death Sentence and Man on Fire with various films of wildly...

Revenge is a dish best served with car bombs and chainsaws in "Law Abiding Citizen," a twisty hybrid of serial-killer suspenser, legal thriller and prison drama that, in between grisly setpieces, attempts to raise significant questions about the failures of the...

Bottom Line: An implausible thriller with a few horror elements in the guise of social criticism. In "Law Abiding Citizen," a sociopath goes on a rampage, killing major officials in Philadelphia and holding the entire city hostage. He essentially is a character...

Before 1974's Death Wish, which turned Charles Bronson from an obscure semi-heavy into a full-fledged action hero, Westerns were the genre that specialized in sagas about easygoing types turned vigilantes by fate and the vagaries of the legal system. But the Bronson...

Even during its most preposterous circumstances, "Law Abiding Citizen" keeps us intrigued with a creepy vibe. That the latter is so easily provided by the "good guy," as portrayed by the usually affable Gerard Butler, something's gotta give in the viewer's mind, if...

PLOT: Ten years after his wife and daughter are killed during a home invasion, a seemingly mild mannered inventor, Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) brutally kills the two men involved in the crime. He's quickly arrested for the crime, but this turns out to just be the...

[i]Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx star in the legal thriller "Law Abiding Citizen," which was filmed in and around Philadelphia.[/i] [b]Movie Review: "Law Abiding Citizen," 3.5 stars (out of 5)[/b] Moviegoers in and around Philadelphia will likely eat up “Law Abiding...