Law Abiding Citizen
Justice at any cost.
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.
Wokeness: 0%
Overall Score: 90%
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cern2025
Few woke elements, but minimal
Quizá le dieron un enfoque demasiado políticamente correcto, cuando va llegando al final. Y por supuesto, deben colocar siempre algunos elementos de equilibrio racial.
Más allá de eso, bastante buena película con elementos mínimos de woke, que la hacen fácil de ver.
Created: 03-31-2023
NoWo
Decent movie, but this genre is always contrived
Good movie of the Machiavellian vengeance sort, although the tail part is over the top.
Butler is (as often) excellent. Foxx I find to be somewhat hit or miss as a rule, and this time is not a hit for me. At least, he has the loud-mouth asshole part down pat. Must be method acting.
In favour of the script-writers, they don't push any protagonist as morally superior.
The putative bad guy is driven mad with grief, and argues his actions as necessary, not correct, even though he kills beyond the sphere of direct culprits, and seeks to enjoy retribution. He was clearly capable of discreetly bombing or poisoning all his targets on the same day, without a possibility of being stopped, and still make his point.
The supposed good guy's morality is variable and self-serving, and thus just a system of excuses for his own selfishness. In short, he's a small man, a sleazeball hiding behind the authority of his office, who puts his career, not justice, above the safety of his family and co-workers. .
One "just doing his job", the other his perceived duty.
The script spirals out during the second part, and the plot-holes enlarge quickly. Biggest of all being the Hollywood ending. Seriously? Are they reading their own characters?
Oh well, still a decent movie.
As for wokeness, I don't think the production was going for forced diversity, Philly being 1/3 white, 1/3 black.
But it's funny that all decision-makers are black, and get a whole lot of white people killed.
Created: 09-27-2024
