2009
Watch this trailer:
Did you watch it? Good, because I’ve now just saved you the trouble of going to see Law Abiding Citizen.
All the best moments of the film are in that trailer. Okay, technically that’s not true: The bit at 1:28 where you see the judge answer her phone and in the next scene you see Jamie Foxx looking all horrified? In between those two bits the judge gets shot by her phone. Just imagine her answering it and then a chunk of skull flies from her head, blood and brain matter in tow. Can you imagine that? Good, you have now seen all the best bits of Law Abiding Citizen.
What remains is completely stupid filler. It’s entertaining enough, but you’re always thinking “when are they going to get to the bit in the trailer when they use a remote-controlled turret to blow up a car?” Hands down the best bit in the film (and thus in the trailer) is at 1:37 when Gerard Butler says “release me… or I kill everyone.” I was a little worried that the film itself would introduce some context to make this line less brutally retarded, like “…in the upper echelons of the state’s judiciary.” No, it’s delivered straight, apparently Butler actually plans on killing everyone, even if his actions don’t ever seem to support such an audacious claim.
It’s pretty hard to know who the film expects you to empathise with. I have a feeling you’re supposed to be rooting for Jamie Foxx but, and I know I’m repeating myself, Gerard Butler wants to kill everyone. Seeing as his traps usually only kill one or two people I wanted to see how long it’d take to work through all 6 billion of us. That would have made a much more entertaining film.
So yes, the film is so face-twistingly, massively stupid that it would almost be worth recommending. Except you’ve just seen the trailer, so you really don’t need to.
i’m not a horrible person, but i would love to see a film in which someone does kill all 6.8 billion humans on the planet. Obviously he’d have to do a lot of those kills in bulk, like poisonings or bombing damns etc, but then to even it up you could have scenes of him killing certain special people individually, like his ex, or some dictators, or something. Either way, by the end of the film you have actually seen 6.8 billion people die. At the end its all silent and its just him (or her, of course) laughing before turning the gun on himself. Then its really silent, and thats it, the human race has ended in that film. And the audience leaves with an enlightened sense of appreciation for their lives, or a complete loss of faith in humanity, I dunno.
And the thing is, the events of the film you are describing would still be more plausible than LAC.