Law Abiding Citizen
Gerard Butler stars as Clyde Shelton - a mysterious figure who wants vengeance after his wife and child are murdered during a home invasion. The brash assistant district attorney, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), cuts a plea bargain deal with the more sadistic of the two killers, which angers Clyde, and leaves him questioning the legitimacy of a legal system capable of such an injustice. Ten years later, the grieving man decides to get revenge on everyone involved.

Can Clyde execute his brilliant, yet, evil scheme to make everyone pay for their role in perpetrating this injustice?

Can Nick and the cops uncover the plan and find Clyde's accomplice in this dastardly designed plot?

Absurd is not an original nor powerful enough word to describe Law Abiding Citizen. I feel like I need to use a bunch of adjectives usually hurled at me by critics (and former girlfriends). We're talking about words like ridiculous, immature, nonsensical, ludicrous, preposterous and laughable (I usually date women with very good language skills).

Writer Kurt Wimmer and director F. Gary Gray have delivered an overly convoluted, unrealistic, totally outrageous story that only succeeds on a guttural, visceral level most of us shouldn't wish to have satisfied. Sure, we want to see Clyde get revenge on the bad people involved in the heinous crime, and we can even admire some of the ingenuitive tactics he employs (with a vengeance!), but this massive web of deceit he establishes goes beyond any possible plot any human being could carry out. The CIA and the KGB would fail to make this possible.

You have to give Foxx and Butler some credit as they keep a straight face, while Wimmer is taking the story into more outrageous territory by the minute.

½ Waffle (Out of 4)
.5 of 4 Waffles

Law Abiding Citizen is rated R for strong bloody brutal violence and torture, a scene of rape, and pervasive language.