Law Abiding Citizen

About Law Abiding Citizen

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.

Law Abiding Citizen is a 2009 crime thriller film directed by F. Gary Gray. It runs 109 minutes and was released in October 2009.

Its themes are explosion, bomb, courtroom, and rape and revenge.

Jamie Foxx takes the lead as Nick Rice, Gerard Butler as Clyde Alexander Shelton, Colm Meaney as Detective Dunnigan, and Bruce McGill as Jonas Cantrell. The screenplay is by Kurt Wimmer. Production companies include Evil Twins, G-BASE, and The Film Department. It streams on AMC, AMC+ Amazon Channel, and AMC Plus Apple TV channel in the United States.

The Equalizer, Memories of Murder, and In the Name of the Father make useful companions to Law Abiding Citizen, all filed under assassin, gore, and vigilante justice. TMDB voters put it at 7.4 out of 10 across 5,928 votes and it carries a R rating.