I just got home from watching the new movie, "Law Abiding Citizen," and boy was that one crazy ride. It really made me think about how our justice system does work and the flaws that it has. I think that it is crazy how some people walk away after five years or so in prison for some horrible crime they committed just because of a plea bargain... I know there is not much room to keep prisoners, or at least that is one of the major arguments I hear, but to let a guy who is not really sorry for what he has done to just walk after a few years in prison makes no sense to me. It's not fair for the victims involved... I would not recommend this movie to people with weak stomachs because there are quite a few gruesome scenes in it that caused me to lose my appetite... I found this quick overview from a website that tells a little bit more about the movie in a way that makes more sense then I could. If anything it did keep me on the edge of my seat the whole time trying to figure out where this guy's mind was going and what he was going to do next and how he was going to do it.
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice. Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die. Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can be neither predicted nor prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton’s high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton’s crosshairs, Nick finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.
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