Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
- Eagle-eyed viewers have noticed a hidden easter egg referencing F. Gary Gray's previous film in the background of the opening scene.
- Many of the practical effects used in the climax were achieved without any CGI.
- During the filming of Law Abiding Citizen, Jamie Foxx improvised one of the most famous lines in the movie.
Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 American thriller directed by F. Gary Gray. Jamie Foxx stars as Nick Rice, a Philadelphia assistant district attorney who makes a plea deal with one of two men who murdered the family of Clyde Shelton, played by Gerard Butler, allowing the actual killer to receive a reduced sentence in exchange for testimony against his accomplice.
Ten years later, Clyde, a brilliant engineer and former intelligence operative, begins systematically murdering everyone involved in the case โ from the killers to the attorneys to the judge โ from inside his prison cell, using elaborate, pre-planned devices and seemingly impossible methods. The film posed an uncomfortable moral question: when the justice system fails victims, does that justify vigilante vengeance? Gerard Butler's Clyde was simultaneously sympathetic โ his grief was genuine and the system's failure was real โ and monstrous in the extremity and indiscriminate nature of his revenge.
Law Abiding Citizen earned $127 million worldwide on a $53 million budget.





