Above Average Flick

Law Abiding Citizen - Jamie Foxx getting intimate with Gerard Butler.

It was a Tuesday, and to celebrate it, The Girlfriend and I decided to head off to the Nu Metro at the V&A Waterfront to watch a movie.

“Inglorious Basterds” was an option, but The Girlfriend has a famously low tolerance to violence on screen (we had to turn off “Slumdog Millionaire” during the scene when the one kid has his eyes burned), and so settled for something more PG 13 instead.

“Law Abiding Citizen” stars Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, and is about a family man, played by Butler, who witnesses his family get tortured and killed by a bunch of thugs who break into his home. Instead of having the perpetrators rot in jail, he is gutted to find that Jame Foxx, a district attorney, has cut a deal with one of them. Butler then plots his revenge on both the killers, as well as the district attorney and the justice system in general, who he believes f**ked him around.

What follows is a well crafted revenge thriller, as Butler plot a number of elaborate ways to kill his adversaries. It’s an entertaining little flick, not too violent or taxing on the brain, and definitely worth a watch.

Jamie Foxx stars in his first decent film in quite some time, and Butler also delivers his best movie performance since playing King Leonidas in “300”.

It’s probably not a “cinema” movie, and upon reflection, I would probably be more likely to watch it on DVD whilst having my feet gently rubbed with Arnica Oil. It’s an entertaining 2 hours though, and is possibly a good film to watch on a date, if you’re not in the mood to see a clichéd romantic comedy starring Mark Ruffalo or Hugh Grant.

Law Abiding Citizen scores a Steve-O rating of 3.

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