Law Abiding Citizen movie posterJamie Foxx is the upstanding assistant DA (of course!) at the mercy of avenging vigilante Gerard Butler, who is bent on revenge against the murderers of his wife and daughter and on the inadequate legal system. F. Gary Gray  who made the lukewarm and not very Italian The Italian Job directs from a poor script by Frank Darabont (Shawshank Redemption) and Kurt Wimmer.

Butler produces and stars as Clyde Shelton in this warmed-over revenge thriller, part Death Wish, part The Jackal; none of that's a compliment. Blood, bombs, bullets and expletives fly around the screen as Butler wreaks havoc on Philadelphia, which, despite the movie's moral hand-wringing, takes a perverse delight in this revenger's tragedy. Jamie Foxx, fresh from Oscar winning turn in Ray, followed up with this turkey, played strictly by the numbers. Read more of this post