Starring: Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Colm Meaney, & Bruce McGill
Directed by F. Gary Gray
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/
What an Awesome flick with a total fucking letdown ending. Everything about LAC was awesome. The plot, the action, & the suspense were top notch, except the ending. Gerard Butler was once again solid in acting, and for once I was impressed with Jamie Foxx, but the ending totally fucked with me. So for a solid date movie, or a good buddy flick I say go see this!!!
OK so on to the review……..Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, and almost kill him. The killers are caught, and Assistant DA Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) is assigned the case. Nick is ordered by the DA to make a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal, but Nick says it was too late and the deal is done. The other killer got the death penalty. After 10 years, the other killer is released from prison, and he soon ends up dead. Clyde is arrested and kind of admits to Nick that he did it. Clyde is put in jail, and he warns Nick that he must fix the broken justice system that failed him and his family or else anyone connected to his case will soon die. Even from jail, Clyde's threats become a reality, and Nick must stop Clyde before his family is next.
Yeah I really liked this movie, but like I said the end kinda threw me. It had one of those Horror Movie endings where the “bad guy” dies and the Hero lives no matter how corrupt he or she is. Maybe it was Grays way of showing some sort of Humanity to a scum bag like Nick Rice, but it was totally weak, and kinda brought down a solid homerun movie for everybody.
All in all LAC was a fun romp. If you liked The movie Four Brothers, then you will totally dig this.
Overall rating ( * * * * )
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