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| Original Score: 4/10 | Aug 9, 2024

Filled with equal parts bloody carnage and plot holes, this vigilante yarn, more concerned with explosions and bloodletting than voicing its potential social commentary, unravels into a disorganized tangle

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 30, 2023

It's basically Saw with Gerard Butler as Jigsaw, which means he's as righteous of body as he is of mind.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2021

Offers plenty of entertainment value, provided that viewers are willing to accept several remarkably convenient truths.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 29, 2020

The perfect action flick for low-maintenance audiences.

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 13, 2020

As a piece of fluffy entertainment, Law Abiding Citizen is passable enough; try to dig any deeper, however, and you'd be scraping the bottom of a very shallow barrel.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2019

There were surprises, twists and turns and could get graphic at times, but overall the movie was fast-paced, well performed, and kept your attention until the very end.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 12, 2017

Law Abiding Citizen may be the most nihilistic movie I've ever seen.

| Original Score: 4.5/10 | Mar 29, 2011

It's exactly the kind of film the phrase 'by-the-numbers' was invented for, but like the best genre films, it acknowledges its niche and goes all out to top its predecessors.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 21, 2010

One of the more repugnant examples of Hollywood's cheap-thrill approach to violence, its voyeuristic brutality is matched only by its innate stupidity.

| Aug 9, 2010

The film can't seem to make up its mind whether it wants to be an audience pleasing popcorn treat or a serious, political thriller. It ends up being partly both... with varying degrees of success.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 15, 2010

Putting aside the ideological posturing, this hyper-violent fantasy about a seemingly unstoppable killer who continues his murder spree behind bars delivers on its promise of an intriguing mystery, however far-fetched.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 16, 2010

While one man's terrorist may be another's freedom fighter, it's not quite as simple when it comes to CIA operatives and your basic serial killer. Or rather, a CIA psycho family man that might make Jack The Ripper envious.

| Feb 5, 2010

The diverting garbage that is Law Abiding Citizen would be more deplorable if it were possible to take this wholly implausible film seriously.

| Original Score: C- | Jan 31, 2010

For large portions of Law Abiding Citizen we're not sure who is going to be the winner here, nor who we want to be, and though it won't make for much of a date flick, as far as intelligent action flicks go, it gets two big burly thumbs up.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2010

While Law Abiding Citizen is in no sense a successful work of art, a film that offers the illicit thrill of cheering on an all-American terrorist is at least pursuing something more complex than ''moral clarity''.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2010

A high-octane, high body-count thriller posing the question, how do you stop a psycho vigilante on a killing spree? Apparently, by any means necessary."

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 28, 2010

Bloodshed and torture abound in this sadistic thriller with pretensions.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 26, 2010

An entertaining thrill ride but not much more.

| Jan 26, 2010

In another time and place, Law Abiding Citizen could have been an intelligent critique of a flawed criminal justice system. Instead, I present you Gerard Butler, ruthlessly hacking a guy into 25 little pieces.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 22, 2010