Law Abiding Citizen

This is a solid thriller that fizzled out of control in the final act. Gerard Butler is a grieving husband and father seeking vengenance on the killers who slaughtered his family and the flawed system that let one of them go free. The focus of his vengenance and the glaring weak link in the film is Jamie Foxx who was particularly awful in this one... even by his standards. Butler's character manages to carry on his vendetta even from solitary confinement in prison. There are huge gaps in logic about why Jamie Foxx had so much interaction with Butler after he confesses to multiple murders, but I was along for the ride. At a certain point, however, the revenge plot gets even bigger than the thin connection to credibility this film has could support. Butler was very good playing a complex character. F. Gary Gray builds some exciting set pieces and manages to find some tension in Butler & Foxx's face offs even thought Foxx was too smug and smooth to really work.