How does a Kevlar tie kill? And if it can, why hasn't the CIA sent a Kevlar scarf to Osama bin Laden? We're supposed to be awed, but a more reasonable response is to giggle. To illustrate his point, the ex-spook recounts how Shelton managed to kill a terrorist who had long evaded assassination simply by sending him a Kevlar tie. Rice and Dunnigan find a former spy who once worked with the vigilante, who solemnly explains that the man is a master of homicide from a distance. Vigilante killer Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) turns out to be a former spy - with a skill set even James Bond might envy.Įven after Shelton is apprehended and imprisoned, the attacks continue. The grieving husband and father objects, but it's too late the cocky prosecutor, who'll do nothing that threatens his high conviction rate, tells Shelton that he's already made the plea-bargain deal. The other will serve a short sentence in exchange for testifying against his partner in crime. The two assailants are soon in custody, but Rice advises Shelton that only one will get the death penalty.
After the briefly depicted home invasion, Shelton is the only family member still breathing. The body count begins with the very first sequence, when two standard-issue rapist-murderers burst into the Philadelphia row house Shelton shares with his wife and daughter.
Gary Gray and scripter Kurt Wimmer fudge the details, undercutting the movie's grim purposefulness with developments that are laughably implausible. This preposterous vigilante drama does pretend to be a procedural, moving step by step as enraged "citizen" Clyde Shelton ( 300's Gerard Butler) takes his revenge on prosecutor Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx). Bad news for anyone who wants to systematically annihilate his enemies by remote control: Law Abiding Citizen will not show you how to do it.
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