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Shopping Girl - Law Abiding Citizen
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Manufacturer: Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gerard Butler, Leslie Bibb, Viola Davis, Michael Gambon
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Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: STARZ/SPHE
EAN: 0013138010292
Format: Color
Label: Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Manufacturer: Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Release Date: 2010-02-16
Running Time: 108
Studio: Overture Films/Anchor Bay Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
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Editorial Reviews:
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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 admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flawed justice system, 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. Only Nick can stop the killing and finds himself in a desperate race against time facing a deadly adversary who seems always to be one step ahead.
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Summary: Good premise bad execution
Comment: What I hate more than a bad movie is one that had a great premise and wastes it.
This is a simple plot. A man, Clyde Shelton, feels that he was denied justice over the death of his wife and daughter and wants to punish those that were responsible. But what happens is the ADA, Nick Rice, who prosecuted the case with an eye more on his win lose ratio, becomes the hero and victim of the his ambition becomes the villian. About 10 minutes is used to set up the story but there is no transition to show or justify anything. All of a sudden the ADA is caring and the victim becomes a psychopath.
Beyond that there are key plot points that are simply wrong.
It is stated that Clyde bought a number of properties in the area under his own name but transferred title to a dummy Panamanian company. Therefore, they cannot locate them because of protections by the Panamanian government. The first part of this is wrong. If he bought them under his name, they can find the properties as the names of all previous owners remain attached to the properties forever. This is a simple computer search. Additionally, if you have the name of the Panamainian shell company, it would be listed on numerous public records including property tax records!
Second, Nick gets a list of amounts paid by the dummy corp and then compare them to the sale prices of commercial properties. By doing this he locates a property next to the prison that Clyde is being held. This would be impossible. It is obvious that the writer never purchased a piece of property! The check you write at closing is not the purchase price of the property but a net amount, purchase price less deposit plus closing costs, etc. It is never the exact purchase price.
Finally, Clyde is suppose to be a genius. Therefore, if he planted a bomb, he would have put tamper guards which would have made it impossible for them to move the bomb even a few inches let alone many miles accross town.
These a the worst plot points. There are just too many to list.
Add to this a mediocre performance by Jamie Foxx and a confused performance by Gerrard Butler and you have movie that is a waste of time.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Suspensefull
Comment: This movie was amazing, keep my attention the whole time. Definitely worth watching over and over again.
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Summary: Yet another revenge flick
Comment: It's got a few twists and some stomach-turning violence and it's just another revenge flick in the end. And the end is so boring to boot. When a movie starts off with the killing and rape of the hero's loved ones, it really doesn't matter much what's next: the writer has already signified that he's lazy.
Add some good actors (Meaney, Butler) and a fair actor trying way too hard (Foxx), saddle them with some insipid dialogue, kill a bunch of people, add a dash of torture porn, throw in some half-baked cries for justice, and bake at 350 for 108 minutes.
Remove and let sit and realize you're looking at something that really ain't very tasty.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Disappointing...
Comment: The first half of the movie was pretty good and had an interesting premise. However it got very unrealistic towards the end...
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Summary: Far-fetched but riveting nonetheless...
Comment: As some have said previously, the film starts out good but as the story unravels it becomes pretty absurd. Despite that, it's a good thriller that had me on edge right up to the end. Not to mention the obvious eye candy of Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler!!
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