Law Abiding Citizen (2009) movie poster

Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

"Justice at any cost."
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👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 30%
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Runtime
1h 49m
Rated
R
Country
United Kingdom, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.4/10 (5,582 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
26%
Metacritic
34

Cast

Jamie Foxx as Nick Rice · 72% avg
Gerard Butler as Clyde Alexander Shelton · 71% avg
Colm Meaney as Detective Dunnigan · 69% avg
Bruce McGill as Jonas Cantrell · 72% avg
Leslie Bibb as Sarah Lowell · 73% avg
Michael Irby as Detective Garza
Gregory Itzin as Warden Iger · 67% avg
Regina Hall as Kelly Rice · 72% avg

Is Law Abiding Citizen good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 30%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#616 / 3335 · Drama
Rank in its year
#45 / 230 · 2009
Rank among its director's films
#3 / 10 · F. Gary Gray

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

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. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

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.

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