Law Abiding Citizen 4K 2009 UNRATED Ultra HD 2160p

An arrested man, obsessed with revenge for the deaths of his wife and daughter, whose murderers have been released because of legal loopholes, offers an ultimatum: either he is released, or innocent people in the city will start dying. The assistant prosecutor realizes that he is partly to blame for the villain's birth, and he alone can stop him

Law Abiding Citizen 4K Review
On a quiet evening, a humble engineer Shelton (Gerard Butler) - a faithful husband and father of a wonderful child - was invaded by scumbags with baseball bats, smashing vases, killing his daughter and raping his wife in a particularly elaborate way. One scoundrel was sentenced to death, but the other, because of mistakes in the investigation, had to be released after a plea bargain arranged to save his face by the ambitious prosecutor Rice (Jamie Foxx). After ten years, the engineer, severely disappointed in the system of justice, but not wasting time, will begin a personal retribution - to go to prison and from there, in an incomprehensible way for justice, will begin to carry out the atrocities.

Remembering, how many times any law-abiding maniacs restored justice on the screen with his bare hands, for a while you cherish the hope that the authors will not make a deal with his conscience and develop the story of his engineer-avenger in the previously unseen zagogulina. The more so, since one of the authors, screenwriter Kurt Wimmer ("Equilibrium" (2002), "Ultraviolet" (2006)), though not star from heaven, but not a fool, and his scrolls sometimes get pretty nice. And ten years given to the hero for the preparation of the show is quite enough time to show, so to say, engineering imagination and not to lose face in the mud. Unfortunately, in the hour and a half given to him, "The Law-abiding Citizen" methodically implements just the latter option, and in a variety of ways. It's a pity again, because Gerard Butler's fashionable face in the movie is responsible for the face of the citizen with whom there have been especially high expectations lately.

It seems that the ten years given to the main character to get back at the system played a cruel joke not only on him but also on the picture itself: all that time, like the grief-stricken engineer, the creators have obviously been locked up, heating up their morbid imaginations by watching old 90s thriller tapes, only to end up making a mindless parody of them. The fashions have affected the result only once, when Butler's character picks up a bolt cutter and gives "Hostel" (2005), chopping up a villain strapped to some surgical equipment on the outskirts of town, like a walnut. Further on, however, time already flows in the opposite direction, turning the film into one extended déjà vu of "Seven" (1995) and "The Copcat" (1995): it has been a long time since we have seen such powerful backlighting, such depressing prisons and such intelligent prisoners who show wonders of wit and strip naked before arrest.

The latter is very important: those who remain unhappy with the face of the Butler engineer, who has struck the wrong spot, can at least admire his ass.