Law Abiding Citizen is a movie about a dude who something terrible happens to and the person responsible gets away with it due to what he thinks is a poor judicial system. He then gets thrown in jail and terrifies those who worked on the case of the terrible thing that happened in order to prove to the world how flawed the system is. (I know this seems a little spoilery, but this is basically all shown in the trailer)

The movie is a fantastic ride and is all around fun. The most fun is had with the element of wit. The movie is for anyone that likes movies such as Inside Man or Memento. Its full of plot twists and Gerard Butler’s character just seeming like the smartest man alive. In this respect, the movie is awesome.

The only problem that I have with the movie is that the first 30 minutes or so is fully devoted to Gerard Butler’s character locking himself in prison to prove that our judicial system is screwed up. But after that 30 minute or so mark, he stops trying to prove that and is pretty much just killing everyone that let the guy go that did the terrible thing (sorry, don’t want to spoil it). I would have been fine with this, but if they stuck with it the whole movie. Theres too much of a conflicting message. Its more obvious when towards the end of the movie Jamie Foxx’s character is trying to convince Gerard Butler’s character to stop, but Gerard says, “You still don’t get it!” I was excited at this point, because I thought the end of the movie would reveal a crazy plot twist of which makes the whole screwed up judicial system message come back and make complete sense. Well that didn’t happen. There was a crazy plot twist, but the movie never came back to the original message it was trying to convey. And no, it wasn’t something that just went over my head…

Conclusion

This movie is still worth seeing. If you are the type of person that only sees a few movies a year in theaters, then you might want to wait for this to come to DVD, but then definitely see it. For everyone else though, I’d still suggest seeing it. It’s a fun movie.
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars

Okay it wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t a good movie. I wouldn’t pay to see it, not even a $1 at the Redbox when it comes out on DVD. And what makes me so mad is that it should have been good. So many big actors, it was directly by Ang Lee, the music was by freakin’ Danny Elfman.

Some parts had probably the worst acting I’ve ever seen, some parts made no sense towards the main plot of the movie and really had no right to be there, and the rest was just sooo slow. The first probably 45 minutes of the movie is just leading up to the festival actually happening. And it is a loooong 45 minutes, with nothing really happening. The other half of the movie was kind of okay during most of it, but still with some parts really making no sense and I wish weren’t there. Nothing even really happened in the movie. I did get some joy though out of knowing this was a true story and that Woodstock happened this way, but even then I don’t know what was real and what was made up for the movie.

Sooo… Don’t see this movie, k?



And yeah and theres a whole lot of nudity in this movie, but not like sexy nudity. More like weird/gross nudity.