What was meant to be a serious scene turns very cheesy and cringeworthy fast. The film opens up with the murder scene in a rather predictable fashion i.e whip-pan camera movements and super-duper serious bad guy lines. From the always-too-familiar junky bad guys to a lot of silly one liners, it feels like the perfect unintentional comedy. Death Wish) except this film seems to be parodying the cliches present in those films. This story is highly similar to many 70’s revenge thrillers (i.e. The only key thing is that he lets Rice know is that he’s “just getting warmed up” (recall this scene in the trailer, followed by a man standing in the middle of engulfed flames). How can this be happening when the man who may be responsible is in jail? Does he have someone on the outside assisting him? Nobody knows. After being put away in a jail cell, the murderous rampage continues. Even after he brutally kills his wife and daughter’s murderers he’s still out for blood. Shelton’s on a war path of vengeance or, as he hilariously puts it,”it’s gonna be biblical.” Shelton is not only interested in taking down his family’s murders but also the people who are part of the legal system who let them go. The murderers slip through the system due to a vain prosecutor named Nick Rice ( Jaime Foxx), who seems more focused on his conviction rate than justice. Ten years after his wife and daughter are brutally murdered, Clyde Shelton ( Gerard Butler) is out for revenge. It does cross the point of genuine badness at times, but counters with moments of pure excitement. This isn’t a particularly good film and is even downright cringeworthy during certain moments, but even those moments are fun due to their ridiculousness.
There is nothing more than a generic story and pure cheesiness, and yet it still maintains it’s fun garbage tone. Law Abiding Citizen is a preposterous and lucrative revenge story filled with nonstop cliches.
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