So, when they released this movie I was thinking "oh this'll be some sort of detective action flick with a screwy criminal that's a little sadistic, but they'll get them in the end." Yeah, that's not what this move was at all. And I'll tell you a little more about it. Suffice to say, if you don't like gore DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE.

[SPOILERS AHEAD]

Law Abiding Citizen is actually about a lawyer who tried a case and made deal. The case he made a deal on ended up giving a murderer a very short sentance. The very first scene in the movie is the actual crime associated with this case. In this scene you see a father answer the door, get hit in the face with a bat, get tied up and then he's forced to watch (after they stabbed him in the gut), the same thing happen to his wife, who is then also brutally raped. Then as the cherrie on the icecream is placed there their little girl walks in. The more evil of the two criminals picks the girl up bodily by the sholders and says "I really like kids," later you find out they killed her.

So, when the more evil guy gets the deal the dad goes nuts and decides he's going to kill everyone involved. He starts with the murderers and you're like "hell yeah" except that he's going for pain. When he abucts the murderer (10 years after the fact), he straps him down to a table, shoots him up with adreniline and drugs to keep in alive, awake, no matter what is done with him, just so the man can feel the pain. Essentially, there's a saw blade involved for dismebering, a hack saw for the balls and a box cutter for the penis. Oh, and there was a mirror above the table so the man had to watch all this open and his eyelids were sliced off so he had to watch. Btw, you get to see the aftermath, buckets of blood and gore all over everything.

This is essentially the first half hour of the movie. And you know, if they had stopped there maybe it would have been ok, but instead it kept going. You can still watch the movie up to this point, but if you read any further you're going to have some shit really ruined.

[NO I'M SERIOUS EVERYTHING ELSE IS WILL RUIN THE MOVIE. DO NOT READ]

So, at this point the lawyer has figured out who did the murders. They arrest him and he's in jail and he starts toying with the process. This is the most enjoyable part of the movie for me. You essentially have a high intelect whose decided not to play by the rules and goes through tons of shit just to embarass the entire court system. I don't admire the man for doing it, but it was interesting to see it get done and it actually gave the movie theme and purpose. If you wanted to write a report on this movie, this is where you would find your substance for doing so.

At this point, the lawyer's wife and daughter recieve a dvd of the murder and daughter pops it in thinking its something else. Family gets upset, its not followed up on too much.

But, this doesn't last long. After he threatens the judge on his case who also happens to be the judge from the previous murder he tells the main character lawyer that he's kidnapped the defense attorney and that if he doesn't get a special meal by 1:00 the next day, the lawyer is going to die. He wants a tbone stake & and he gets it, but they get to the burried alive lawyer too late.

As a nice twist, [horribly gruesome avert your eyes], the man in prison kills his cellmate with the bone of the stake by repeatedly stabbing him in the jugular and chest. He's moved to solitary, where he wants to be.

Next, the judge answers a cell phone call and gets a sonic pulse through the brains. I saw it coming for some reason.

Following that, they are all threatened and told that at 6am they will all be killed. They hang out at the prison and 6am goes and passes. They go out into the parking lot after the female lawyer gives the "I had hopes and dreams and now I'm scared speach" and yup she and almost every other car are destroyed by the car bombs placed underneath.

Lawyer, friend lawyer (security dude from star trek DS9), and his superior the DA are unharmed, until they go to a cemetary and a robotic war machine empties anti tank rounds into the first guarded vehicle fallowed by a missile. Lawyer & friend lawyer are the only ones left.

By this point you've learned that the crazy x-father was actually a spook who specialized in killing people without being in the room at the time. Also at this point they finally crack the buying up of tons of properties by the man and they discover he owns a building right next to the prison. They go in and find tons of explosives and costumes and machinery and A TUNNEL INTO THE SOLITARY CONFINEMENT SECTION OF THE PRISON. They also find a bunch of spy cameras one of which is pointed at the mayor.

They find the bomb, take it back to the prison cell and put it under the guys bed. The lawyer tries to talk him out of blowing up the napalm bomb after admitting he knows everything and then walks away. The man kills himself.

[THE END]