Law Abiding Citizen
People would not leave me alone about this movie, Law Abiding Citizen. Seriously. They would not leave me alone about how great an amazing the movie is, over and over again. But, you know, it has Jamie Foxx in it and I pretty much hate him a lot.
[more in a bit, I am taking a break from blogging to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]
Okay, so anyway. I was not particularly interested, especially because the film also had Gerard Butler (known to me as the phantom in The Phantom of the Opera but known to everyone else on the planet as the guy from 300 who yells “For Sparta!”) in it, and I’m not a huge fan. I’m neutral. Anyway, so since everyone was bugging me about it, I put it in my instant queue for Netflix and forgot about it, but alas, it came in the mail and I felt obligated to watch it. And I did. And it was awesome.
Seriously, it was great. Not too much exposition, but just enough to kind of know what was happening, and then the action started. Lots of cool explosions, lots of death, especially two awesome ones that if you’ve seen the movie you know what I’m talking about. [SPOILER ALERT] Unfortunately, Jamie Foxx doesn’t die in the end. That sucked. I think he should have – and overall the ending of the film left much to be desired because it was pretty lame and even I guessed by the end what was going to happen – and that means it’s not surprising at all. Lame.
But I feel like this movie was what the Saw movies desperately wanted to be but never achieved – suspense and intrigue without a lot of unnecessary gore (like those pigs in whichever Saw movie that was – remember that? Gross.) Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it and think you should rent it. Seriously. And apparently I really like Gerard Butler now – who knew? He’s actually a really good actor. Or, at least not as bad as Jamie Foxx.
[more in a bit, I am taking a break from blogging to play Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2]
Okay, so anyway. I was not particularly interested, especially because the film also had Gerard Butler (known to me as the phantom in The Phantom of the Opera but known to everyone else on the planet as the guy from 300 who yells “For Sparta!”) in it, and I’m not a huge fan. I’m neutral. Anyway, so since everyone was bugging me about it, I put it in my instant queue for Netflix and forgot about it, but alas, it came in the mail and I felt obligated to watch it. And I did. And it was awesome.
Seriously, it was great. Not too much exposition, but just enough to kind of know what was happening, and then the action started. Lots of cool explosions, lots of death, especially two awesome ones that if you’ve seen the movie you know what I’m talking about. [SPOILER ALERT] Unfortunately, Jamie Foxx doesn’t die in the end. That sucked. I think he should have – and overall the ending of the film left much to be desired because it was pretty lame and even I guessed by the end what was going to happen – and that means it’s not surprising at all. Lame.
But I feel like this movie was what the Saw movies desperately wanted to be but never achieved – suspense and intrigue without a lot of unnecessary gore (like those pigs in whichever Saw movie that was – remember that? Gross.) Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed it and think you should rent it. Seriously. And apparently I really like Gerard Butler now – who knew? He’s actually a really good actor. Or, at least not as bad as Jamie Foxx.
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