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Movie Info


Genre :

Thriller

Release Date :

October 16, 2009

MPAA Rating :

R

Director :

F. Gary Gray

Starring :

Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Viola Davis, Leslie Bibb, Michael Irby, Regina Hall, Bruce McGill, Theresa Randle, Colm Meaney

REVIEWS RATE:  Critics  Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.    Readers  4 of 5 [Rate It]

2 of 4

“..you just want the thing to end so you can go home..”
by Rene Rodriguez [Miami Herald]
2.5 of 4

“..unrelentingly grim, unintentionally funny..”
by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer]
1 of 4

“..kind of corrosive entertainment for which the excuse "It's only a movie" was invented..”
by Joe Williams [St. Louis Post-Dispatch]
2 of 4

“..is not badly made..”
by Amy Biancolli [Houston Chronicle]
2 of 4

“..implausible, superficial and only marginally involving..”
by Claudia Puig [USA Today]
1.5 of 4

“..has so many plot holes, preposterous procedures and impotent gestures that it would take till the sports section to list them..”
by John Anderson [Newsday]
“..has about as much to say about real-life legal issues as "Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen" had to say about defense policy..”
by A.O. Scott [NY Times]
Review rate : C

“..generally ludicrous..”
by Gary Thompson [Philadelphia Daily News]
3 of 5

“..fun..”
by Bill Gibron [Filmcritic.com]
2 of 4

“.."Law Abiding Citizen" just keeps getting wackier and wackier..”
by Robert W. Butler [Kansas City Star]
Review rate : C-
Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Peter Travers [Rolling Stone]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Graham Killeen [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]
1.5 of 4
Reviewed by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]
1 of 4
Reviewed by Wesley Morris [Boston Globe]

Reader's Reviews


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very excited to see another gb film and glad gerry now has his own production co--congradulations gerard!!!!

posted by ann petersen on May 17, 2008

I haven't seen it yet but i like gerard butler so i imagine it will be good.

posted by Nunya Bisnes on Nov 02, 2008

a7MO8G

posted by Zrslfzpf on Jul 14, 2009

Is very very good

posted by Hacker Angel on Oct 14, 2009

first time, in a long time, I enjoyed a movie from beginning to end. can't stop telling people to go see it!

posted by runningfuss on Nov 02, 2009
 
 

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