Gary Gray as they really give this movie both barrels: it’s hugely violent and morally adrift, and the man who plays Darby looks just like Johnny Vegas. It’s hugely violent and morally adrift, and the man who plays Darby looks just like Johnny Vegas.Īnd fair play to Butler, Jamie Foxx and director F. It’s a sort of reverse Frankenstein, from the man who once played Dracula.Ĭlyde is put in prison but the deaths keep coming, and they’re all people who had something to do with what he sees as a Philadelphia justice system that failed to even care enough to try to punish Ames and Darby. Ten years on and shortly after Ames dies in agony of a lethal injection that should be pain-free, Darby is kidnapped then strapped to a gurney in a deserted warehouse before having his limbs, eyelids and penis cut off while still conscious. Sorry Clyde, you don’t kill another Sarah on my watch Sarah (Leslie Bibb) and Nick (Jamie Foxx).
It also has a character quoting Marcus Aurelius which is always a good sign of a bad movie.
First of all its Rotten Tomatoes rating demonstrated the massive disparity between critics and the cinema-going public, and secondly it fell into the pattern we seem to have established for ourselves in the Good-Bad Film Club, where we try to balance out creature features, over-egged sci-fi, disasters (either the subject of the film or in its making), and Gerry. Mainly because I got it mixed up with Machine Gun Preacher, also starring Gerard Butler, and was expecting a religious biker going to Sudan to do charity work.ĭespite that, Law Abiding Citizen was a perfect Good-Bad Film Club choice. It was another Good-Bad Film Club evening last night, and I’ll not lie, this one – chosen purely for Gerard Butler – was a surprise. And while all Clyde Shelton munches is the scenery and a decent steak, he does then murder his cell-mate with the bone. Killing with abandon, he doesn’t even leave his prison cell.