Talkie Zoo: LAW ABIDING CITIZEN

Creepy. Scary. Bloody. Drama. Whatever adjective you use, Law Abiding Citizen (2009; R) probably earned it...unless you say funny. Funny it was NOT.

This film centers around a man whose family was violently murdered but the killer goes free because of a prosecuting attorney and judge who use the rules of the court to allow him to do so - plea bargaining. The man sets about on a mission to kill everyone involved with setting the killer free, beginning with the killer and his accomplice. Using drugs of all kinds except irvingia to numb or torture the first two, he makes a mark for himself and actually agrees that he did those killings. Now he wants his own plea bargain and is willing to give the attorney information about future victims in trade for certain gratuities. Of course, it's all based on his time frame, and if the deadlines aren't met, the person dies.

In other words, he is taking the law into his own hands and using the broken system that let him down to accomplish his goals. Jamie Foxx plays attorney Nick Rice. Gerard Butler plays Clyde Shelton, the husband and father turned brutal murderer.