ジェラルド・バトラー、ジェイミー・フォックス共演による復讐サスペンス。愛する妻子を殺害した犯人に復讐を果たしたクライド。罪を認めて投獄されるが、彼の予告通りに犯人側の弁護士や判事が次々に謎の死を遂げていく。
製作費: $53,000,000 (80億円)
興行収入: $127,900,000 (192億円)
推定収支: $74,900,000 (112億円)
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監督: Ｆ・ゲイリー・グレイ
脚本: Kurt Wimmer
音楽: Brian Tyler
制作: Lucas Foster / Kurt Wimmer / Mark Gill
撮影監督: ジョナサン・セラ
制作会社: The Film Department / Evil Twins / Warp Films / Overture Films / G-BASE
You can’t fight fate. Right? Gerard Butler stars as Clyde Shelton, a man forced to not only watch his wife and daughter be raped and murdered in his own home, but to also have to sit there and watch the justice system fail him. So he wages a one man war against pretty much everyone involved. Hoo-Hah! The big hitting critics hated it, with comments ranging from it being sub-normal, preposterous, ugly and morally corrupt, to it being a comic book film of moral hectoring! Naturally, as the critics were at pains to point out that it would, it made a pot load at the box office and is generally well liked by a good portion of the action/revenge/thriller loving populace. There’s always a big grey area with revenge/vigilante movies that really brings out the debate crowd, but what rarely gets said is that through the actions of these cinematic waste layers is the chance for many, many, folk to live vicariously. Yes! 99% of the common man and woman do indeed sit back and trust our respective legal systems to do what’s right and just, but oh how we feel that given similar circumstances we would want to vent spleen with furious anger. Law Abiding Citizen is a riot, at its heart it does have something to say, even asking some pertinent questions. Do these social smarts come bursting through the bloody haze to make a point? No, they get submerged in a whirl of kinetic fury and socko violence, but they are there, caustically so. But hey! For shocks, twists and outrageous set-pieces, this picture rocks the big one. Vicarious living through cinema – wonderful. 8/10
Not the ending I wanted Some movies you want the bad guy to win and this is one of them. There's a few things missing here, like the setup that Clyde is really this smart inventor guy leading a double life. That could've used some secret door behind a front working in a lab kind of shots. And that Nick Rice is actually smarter, cause he wasn't. Other than that, it does keep you on your toes, mostly to see what Clyde comes up with and how he's going to fix the broken justice system.
