I definitely approached this movie as another crappy Gerard Butler action film. The movie even starts off with him witnessing his wife and daughter murdered just to see the killer get out of jail after just a couple years.What I did not expect is what happened next. The movie was fully set up to make Butler the good guy hero and Foxx to be the heartless lawyer that learns how wrong he has been about his approach to justice.
Instead Butler turns into a monster, the complete opposite of what you would expect. This was a nice surprise. I never saw this plot coming and it was definitely exciting. Jamie Foxx came across as just as bad of a guy as Butler which really made you pick a side. I like movies that force the audience to pick who they think the good guy is. Too many now make the bad guy so bad no one could like him, and the good guy just perfect. But they both had flaws and the movie was pretty good.
Maybe some of this was unintentional, maybe even accidental. But if it was, it was done well. I liked it, but didn't love it.
Vote: 7/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1197624/
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