Law Abiding Citizen. Dir. F. Gary Gray. Perf. Gerard Butler, et al. October 16, 2009. The
Film Department: Overture Films.
This film was released in 2009
and was directed by F.Gary Gray. With an amazing cast of Jaime Foxx as ADA Nick
Rice and Gerard Butler as Clyde Alexander Shelton. Gerard Butler’s character Clyde witnessed his wife and daughter be brutally killed in front of him by 2 home invaders, Clarence James Darby and Rupert Ames. As the court date approaches for the invades
and Clyde finally able to get justice for his family, prosecutor Rice makes a
deal with Darby with a plea of a lesser sentence in exchange for sending Ames
to death row. He makes this deal because he was unable to obtain DNA evidence
to convict the two. What is ironic is Darby is the one who killed them, not
Ames. With news of the plea deal, Shelton does not feel like justice was served
and begins to plan to take on the system he sees as corrupt. Fast forward 10
years when Ames is schedule to die by
lethal injection, somethings goes wrong and he dies a slow pain full death.
Shelton then takes his vengeance out on Darby by dismembering him. Rice finds
Shelton and he willingly gives himself up, which sets in motion the events to
lead to him trying to take down the corrupt system.
I am sure most of us have or have
known someone who did not get justice. That they were “rail-roaded” by the
system. I know that we have a system
that has been set in stone for years by our forefathers, but I am sure that
didn’t not fore see the circumstances and crimes we have to deal with today.
Some say, if it isn’t broken why fix it? I am not saying that the system is
broke, but flawed. Like every other person out there. Our officials have
emotions, surrounds, beliefs that do in fact affect their decision making and
it something that is human and we can not control. I do not have a solution to
this problem, but rather awareness for us to seek ourselves. Where one or more
are gathered, we can move mountains.
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