If the film really is a PG-13 security blanket that tickles teens, it’ll find an audience. “100 minutes of dopey behavior and filmmaking inanity wrapped up tight in a bland, gutless PG-13 wooby, taking a proven premise and watering it down to a parade of nonsense created only to tickle gullible teen audiences.” Brian How about a remake of a 1987 domestic thriller: The Stepfather ( Rotten Tomatoes – Metacritic)? “Go anywhere near this idiotic thriller and your brain may break up with you.” Matt Pais
#Law abiding citizen rotten movie
Wow, this movie left the NPR guy calling for blood. How does a Kevlar tie kill? And if it can, why hasn’t the CIA sent a Kevlar scarf to Osama bin Laden?” Mark Jenkins NPR “We’re supposed to be awed, but a more reasonable response is to giggle. Suddenly I’m afraid that Fox news might weaponize this film and use it against Obama. “There are movies that stretch credibility, there are movies that destroy credibility, and then there’s Law Abiding Citizen.” Matt Pais Who knew the revenge genre is secretly pro-fascist? It should go public, most people hate it anyway. “A smug, stupid, ridiculous, ham-fisted and morally and ethically reprehensible example of the crypto-fascist and ridiculously reactionary revenge genre that somehow manages to give such things a bad name.” Peter I hope theater owners don’t take that as an invitation to shrink seat size. “”Law Abiding Citizen” is a sizzling hot thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from start to finish.” Jolene MendezEntertainment Spectrum
First up, a child is murdered, which prompts the ex-spy father to kick some criminal ass in Law Abiding Citizen ( Rotten Tomatoes – Metacritic). Whether it’s tie-wielding murderers, grieving psychos, or hairy beasts, kids are more likely to be scared than entertained by this week’s multiplex invaders. spy agencies employ to kill people anywhere around the globe in a ghostlike fashion.There is an unsettling, but common theme in each of this weekend’s major releases – they all involve tormenting children. He actually is a secret weapon - no, better than that, he is a “Brain,” whom U.S. Oh, by the way, Butler is not an average guy, after all. Ten years roll by, and Butler’s revenge-minded victim is ready for action. Tellingly, no judge, lawyer nor anyone else - not even the husband who blacked out - has this God-like perspective. Nor does one know much about either key character, the attorney who agrees to the deal or the father and husband who feels that justice is not served.īut because the audience does witness selected parts of the murder scene, they will understand that the greater villain eventually will walk free. The audience is not allowed to understand much about the legal case - the evidence or the pretrial rulings. without much hard evidence who plea bargains an agreement with one sleazeball to testify against the other to win at least a death verdict against one and a murder plea from the other. Curiously, this pair seems more interested in being outrageously sadistic than in grabbing anything worth fencing, but that’s so an audience will understand these really are bad people who deserve to die.
Gerard Butler (who also is a producer) plays this supposedly average guy who witnesses the slaughter of his wife and daughter by home-invasion robbers. The script does create sufficient tension and intrigue to hook viewers along with a photogenic, hardworking cast, so “Citizen” should stir some mid-October boxoffice action.