Law Abiding Citizenit was a pretty big letdown. not as big as revenge of the fallen (which i loathed) but it still made me think of some thing that were pretty stupid. SPOILERS ABOUND ok, so the first thing that comes to mind is the ast, or second to last scene, where Jamie Fox is having the final confrontation with Gerard Butler. (the names i can't remember). now, Gerard Butler is completely unarmed, although he is fucking crazy, and apparantly some sort of super spy that everyone who knows what he is, should apparantly fear. Jamie Fox brings a gun. ... why? i mean, Gerard Butler is dangerous, sure, but he wanted Fox's character to see what he's been doing the entire movie. he doesn't want to kill him! Fox's character (who i remember is called Nick) has obvciously known this or else he's an idiot. i guess i should include a synopsis for those who are getting lost. the movie opens with Clyde (Butler) sitting at his desk, making something (we find out later he was a 'tinker'), while his daughter is sitting beside him, making a bracelet for her mother. we see that Clyde has one on his wrist already that says 'Daddy'. the wife, we hear, is making dinner upstairs (shitty lighting in the room makes one assume they're in the basement) and we hear a knock at the door. the wife yells for Clyde to get the door (for the record, the wife and daughters names aren't revealed over the course of the movie, OR in the credits). so clyde goes to open the door, and two thugs walk in, and in a single stride, whack clyde with a baseball bat. they tie him up, and then the wife runs into the hallway, and they tie her up as well. they stab eah of them once, and then the daughter walks into the hallway, wondering what the hell is going on (basically the default look on any kids face when there's yelling). the fatter of the two thugs (who we find out later is named Darby) looks over at his buddy (named Aimes, i'm not sure if that's the correct spelling though), and walks up to the little girl, carrying her off screen. beforethough, he whispers into Clyde's ear "You Can't Fight Fate." after Darby and the little girl go offscreen we see Clyde still struggling, while his wife has already bled to death, and the screen goes black. next scene is Jamie fox getting introduced, and his boss (apparantly some prick who actually graduated from Harvard) isn't liking how he's handling the case against Darby and Aimes. we see another character introduced, names Jonas, who happens to be the DA. but see, if you're not paying attention to this namelss characters accent, (some secretary), you'd never be able to catch what this guys name is till about 3 quarters through the movie. so Nick goes toClyde, who's waiting in Nick's office, and Nick tells him that Darby is cutting a deal so that he only really ends up in prison for around 3 years, Aimes will get the death penalty, and Clyde's pretty much useless cause he blacked out, so the defense isn't gonna take his testimony for shit. so they walk outta the courtroom, and Darby, although getting sent to prison, gets top be escorted toward Nick as he's walking out of the courthouse, and shakes hands with him for 'being on his side'. Nick looks over and sees Clyde glaring at him like he pretty much committed the crime. now, gerard bulter is at his best in the whole movie in this scene. because when we see Clyde glaring at Nick, he's actually intimidating. the rest of the movie he's justplain old, run of the mill fucked up. so nick goes home to his 3 months pregnant wife, and it skipps to ten years later, where Nick now has a 10 year old girl, and is leaving the house to watch Aimes get excecuted. normally, it's supposed to be painless, but he starts freaking the fuck out and having spasms, which the guards know isn't supposed to happen. on one of the poison canisters, scratched into the label is "You Can't Fight Fate". next thing we see is Nick and the rest of the DA's office heading for Darby's place. Darby, incidentally, gets a call from a masked voice (masked in the sense that the dude is speaking through a filter) and this guy tells him to leave the house, and head for this aread where there's a tasered cop in a car. Darby takes the dudes gun, and yells at him to drive when he wakes up, cause he's been getting directions from this voice on a prvate number. so they get to the location, and Darby gets another phonecall. turns out, it's the cop he has at gunpoint. but suddenly, the fat fuck can't move. .turns out that the gun has fucking needles in the handle with some sort of blowfish venom in it which paralyzes him. next scene is gruesome, cause it's Bulter telloing Darby how he's gonna cut him up. now, i can see my description is rather lengthy, so i'll try and make it short.(er). basically, the rest of the movie, Clyde is demanding shit (like a new bed, and a steak dinner with his fucking iPod) in exchange for information on what he's done (which includes burying his lawyer alive.) and he ends up shanking his cellmate in the throat with a steak bone, so he can get moved to solitary. he keeps threatening Nick and his DA office pals so he can fix the "broken system", and it turns out that in the ten years between the original murder and the current story, he tunneled INTO prison, cause solitary confinement had the lowest level in the building or some shit. basically, they though he had an accomplice, but really he just had disguises and a way out of prison, so went about his buisness killing people. in the final scene, he goes to plant a bomb right under the mayor's conference room where she's having an emergrency meeting cause he's put the entire city into a state of panic. by this point, Nick is the DA, cause his buddy Jonas got offed in a graveyard of all places. so they disarm the bomb (without us knowing), and plant it under Clyde's bed in Solitary. Clyde has it set to a time on a cellphone, which will start counting down when he hit's call. comntiued in comments |
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