Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
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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 — from the killers to the attorneys to the judge — 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 — his grief was genuine and the system's failure was real — and monstrous in the extremity and indiscriminate nature of his revenge.
Law Abiding Citizen earned $127 million worldwide on a $53 million budget.





