This does not sit well with Clyde, who views it as a betrayal by the justice system. assigned to the case, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), decides to do the expedient thing to preserve his 96% conviction rate: allow one of the two suspects - the one who committed the most heinous deeds - to provide evidence against the other and plead guilty to a reduced count of third degree murder.
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Several months later, the criminals are awaiting trial and the assistant D.A. Then his young daughter is taken into another room for a similar treatment. The next thing he knows, he's barely conscious, gagged, and bound, and is forced to watch as his wife is raped and killed. Thinking it's a takeout delivery, Clyde carelessly opens the door and is whacked in the head with a bat.
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The movie opens with a sequence as grim and upsetting as one is likely to find in a mainstream movie: engineer Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is enjoying a quiet evening at home with his wife and daughter when the pleasant domestic scene is interrupted by the sound of someone knocking. So it takes a simple revenge fantasy and uses it as the core of an elaborate high-stakes game that, in shooting for "inventive," ends up hitting "preposterous." The more Kurt Wimmer's screenplay reveals about the lead character's scheme, the more difficult it is to believe that Law Abiding Citizen is intended to be taken seriously. Unfortunately, Law Abiding Citizen isn't content to be a Death Wish for 2009. Gary Gray's thriller works on a purely visceral level, offering a degree of guilty satisfaction to viewers as one sleazy individual after another gets eliminated in a gruesome, Saw-esque manner. Law Abiding Citizen hits theaters on October 16th, 2009, in the US and on March 26th, 2010, in the UK.The premise of Law Abiding Citizen - angry father seeks revenge on the system when his daughter's murderer gets off with a light sentence - probably sounded great in the pitch meetings but, as with all high concept motion pictures, the devil's in the details. Butler and Foxx is an interesting pairing that I never would have thought of - I'm curious to see how well they work together. The trailer doesn't play up the "face off" angle between Butler and Jamie Foxx's character as much as I thought it would, but we may see that in some of the later trailers that will inevitably get released.
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The guy has talent and not just as a physical action actor (though he does look kick-ass in the upcoming Gamer). Even though Butler did do Guy Ritchie's gangster flick, RocknRolla (amongst others), I still would like to see him in the type of role he looks to be playing in Law Abiding Citizen. I'm looking forward to seeing Gerard Butler in an intense role, seeing him in so many post- 300 Rom Coms ( P.S. Don't get me wrong, I wasn't expecting a total lack of action scenes, but from the looks of the trailer there's a lot more than I had anticipated. Maybe it's just the studio trying to market the film as something a bit more fast-paced and "edgy" than it really is, but the trailer sure does make it look more like a thriller when I had a bit more of a drama in mind. Anyway, check out the trailer below:Īs I said, the trailer seems to show something quite different from what was given as the previous synopsis (there was apparently several summaries that told conflicting tales about which actor was playing which character). What the trailer shows is a bit different to the previous synopsis listed. The latter was apparently also tapped to direct, but after he left the project it was handed over to F. It was originally written by Equilibrium screenwriter, Kurt Wimmer, with Frank Darabont ( The Shawshank Redemption) handling the rewrite. There's been quite a bit of hassle going on behind-the-scenes with Law Abiding Citizen (as our friends over at /Film have pointed out): a rewrite to the script and change of director both occured before the film moved into production.
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However, it seems he somehow is still managing to rack up the body count, even from within prison. After taking revenge on the killer by (ironically enough) murdering him, Butler's character is imprisoned himself. The film stars Gerard Butler as a man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered and after a defense attorney (Foxx) cuts a deal, the killer walks.
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We got our first look at the movie a few days ago with two posters which didn't quite give off the same vibe that this first trailer does. The first trailer has recently appeared online for the upcoming Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx drama-thriller, Law Abiding Citizen.