Product Details

• Actors: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis, Michael Gambon
• Producers: Lucas Foster
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: February 16, 2010
• Run Time: 109 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (238 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002XMGGK6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,580 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Law Abiding Citizen" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The legal thriller meets the serial-killer shocker in Law Abiding Citizen. The story begins when home invaders kill Clyde Shelton's wife and daughter. The bereaved father (played by a thoroughly unsympathetic Gerard Butler) looks to slick Philly prosecutor Nick Rice (a low-key Jamie Foxx) to see that they receive the maximum sentence. Instead, the murderer, Ames, testifies against his accomplice, Darby, who gets the chair, while he gets 10 years. Upon his release, Ames' mutilated body turns up in an abandoned warehouse, and all roads lead to Shelton. Rice attempts to defend him, but his client makes it impossible--Shelton wants to go to prison--so he does time, but then members of Rice’s legal team start to die. The attorney suspects Shelton, but can't connect him to the crimes, so he races against the clock to save the lives of his assistant, Sarah (Leslie Bibb), D.A. Jonas (Bruce McGill), and his own wife and child. The movie may sound like a Yank reboot of the Japanese chiller Cure, in which an inmate kills from inside institutional walls, but plays more like a mash-up between The Silence of the Lambs, without the psychological complexity, and The Devil's Advocate, without the cynical giggles. F. Gary Gray got his start with hip-hop videos and urban action flicks, like Set It Off, until he hit the big time with his remake of The Italian Job. Law Abiding Citizen is a disappointing muddle from a director who's done better in the past and will surely do better in the future. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Product Description

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his familys killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal. Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 02/16/2010 Starring: Jamie Fox Leslie Bibb Run time: 108 minutes Rating: R Director: F.gary Gray

Customer Reviews

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28 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Had the ending been different it would have been 5 stars, May 17, 2010

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Serrell Ross - See all my reviews

This review is from: Law Abiding Citizen [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

Overall, a great movie up until the final 10 minutes or so. A different ending would have gotten a 5 star rating.

39 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good!!!, December 28, 2009

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Pumpkin Man - See all my reviews

This review is from: Law Abiding Citizen (DVD)

This movie was a lot better than I had expected. To me, it was like a mix of 'Saw' and 'Max Payne. Gerard Butler does an awesome job as a psychotic man with nothing to lose. Ten years after a home invasion that leaves his wife and daughter dead, Clyde Shelton returns to seek true justice. I love when he dismembers the man who murdered them. When Clyde is sent to jail, people are still dying in mysterious ways, and Nick Rice tries to stop it. When Rice interrogates Clyde, he wants something in return such as his iPod, and a steak. Soon, nobody feels safe leaving their homes, because they don't know where or when Clyde will strike next. Does he have an accomplice? I highly recommend LAW ABIDING CITIZEN!!!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Go to Jail, April 2, 2010

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Sky (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Law Abiding Citizen [Blu-ray] (Blu-ray)

I actually got Law Abiding Citizen by accident from Netflix. I was supposed to get 2012, but oddly it was Law Abiding Citizen in the 2012 case. They sent me out 2012 when I reported the issue and I watched that first. Oy, what a mistake that was, because 2012 wasn't a Disaster Movie it was a movie disaster! Anyway...

Law Abiding Citizen was a lot better than 2012. In fact as the movie played out, I thought to myself, "what a great movie." Even as the credits rolled I felt thoroughly entertained by the movie I had just watched. It had a lot of action, suspense, and it kept me guessing right up to the very end.

Then as I reflected on the film I thought more about how silly the premise of the movie is and how far-fetched what the antihero (Gerard Butler) pulls off really is. I'd love to go into detail, but I'm struggling to do so without giving away the critical twists and turns of the movie.

So let me just say this: with Law Abiding Citizen you get a pretty decent thriller about a guy (Butler) that you don't want to mess with who a couple home-invaders do indeed mess with. The bad guys get caught and Butler allows the DA (Jamie Foxx) to exact this great country's due process on the bad guys...which fails. So Butler sets a plan to take out the bad guys himself and anyone else that was involved in the failure of Due Process of Law.

But man, the way this guy chooses to make his point, and the way he ultimately carries it out are where you'll be saying, "Hold on a second there." So check your brain at the door as I did, sit back and enjoy. It's like the small rollercoaster in the amusement park...it's fun while you're riding it, but after you get off you realize it wasn't that great.