Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen (2009) has a fabulous cast which is lead by the fantastic Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx. The film follows a mans personal vendetta and the love he has for his family vs the judicial system in America, its flaws and a lawyers life changing journey.
After the murder of Clyde Sheltons (Butler) family and the way his lawyer, Nick Rice (Foxx) chose to deal with the murder case in course, Clyde chooses to take matters into his own hands and show the court the ripple effect of their actions can affect a man and how hypocrisy is rife in Americas judicial system. 

The film has its comedic moments, but it does pull on your heart strings for the majority of the film. Even though, technically, Clyde is the antagonist and Nick is the protoganist, the roles are shown in a such a way that they actually are reversed. Weird, I know.
Clyde begins making strange requests in prison and making deals with lawyers in order to show them the error of their ways. Things soon take a turn for the worse and the judicial system soon realises that they have no control over a man seeking justice for his loss and vengeance for the courts letting him down and not fulfilling their constitutional role.

If you watch the film with an open mind, you will realise that the film is much deeper then it first seems (which is pretty deep anyway). The ending (SPOILER ALERT) first appears to be absolutely shite ending. That was my first thought, not going to lie. You have this massive build up, then it just falls flat on its face. But when you sit and think about it, you realise how clever it actually is. Clyde is repeatedly said in the film to be a genius and that whatever he shows to Nick is what he chooses for them to see. So when he gets blown up by his own bomb as Nick plants it under his cell bed, you think "oh shit, maybe hes not so clever". But he had already shown Nick the error of his ways and changed him, so his job had been done. Maybe he wanted to be reunited with his family now.

All in all, Law Abiding Citizen is a satisfying (and at time funny) revenge film that unfortunately pretty much looses its way in the last 20 minutes. Having said that, I am happy that I have this film on DVD as I would definitely watch it again.

I rate this film as a 9/10. Action to keep you on your toes, comedy to break up the tears, and who can resist Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx?! ;D 

Thanks for reading! Please leave your comments and suggestions below.

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

If you don't go and see this film for the twists and turns within the plot or the witty comments made by Holmes, then you should go see it just to perv on Robert Downey Jr.


Me and my boyfriend went to go and see this last Wednesday in the cinema. We went even though we hadn't seen the first film and were slightly concerned that we weren't going to be able to follow the story. Having now seen the first film, a lot more of the jokes in the second film now make sense and the plot makes more sense, however the sequel can be enjoyed as a stand-alone film.


Holmes and Watson contrast each other perfectly; Holmes has a cheeky and arrogant persona and a wicked sense of humour, where as Watson is more down to earth and quietly confident. But when the 2 are together, good things happen. 

One of Holmes' more adventurous disguises

The film itself confused me. At times I was drawn in and was so interested in what was happening and it's fast pace, then at other times I felt as if it were dragging. The dragging was probably caused by the fact that some of the content made no sense to me due to not seeing the first one to be honest, so that is my own fuck up.

The locations for filming are absolutely beautiful. The film climaxes at a beautiful location in Sweden (I think...) and trust me, the ending is a shocker. Don't cry like I did.

This film has everything. Romance between Watson and his wife, action between the goodies and the badies, humour from Holmes pushing Watsons wife off of a moving train into a river and the wonderful Stephen Fry adding a touch of sophistication and wit to the mix.

Maybe it is just me and this sort of genre does not agree with me (or I am stupid), but I felt at times like the audience was forgotten about. Sometimes the reasons behind certain decisions being made was not made clear to the audience, thus causing me to be lost in the plot and have no bloody idea what was going on. The doubt always got cleared up in the following scenes, but none the less, some things could have been made a lot clearer.

Similar to Robert Downey Jr's personal life, the film is a happy medium between positives and negatives, but is definitely leaning more towards the positives than the negatives. Not so pants that I wont go out and buy the DVD, but not so good that I am going to watch the DVD the second I get home. Everyone has got films like this in their collection; you forgot they exist and that you own them, and then you see it in your collection and go "OMG I LOVE THIS FILM, I TOTALLY FORGOT I HAVE IT" and you watch it and the process repeats itself.

Despite the slight issues within the film, I did really enjoy it. Especially the ending, oh you wait for the ending!  Definitely worth getting your butt down to the cinema to check out :)

I rate this film as an 8/10 :]

Thanks for reading! Be sure to leave your opinions & suggestions for my next review below :]