I am excited about Gerard Butler’s performance in Law Abiding Citizen. He plays Clyde Shelton, a respectable family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion. When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot young Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Over his objections, Nick is forced by his boss to offer one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice.

Move quickly ahead ten years. Here we witness Butler’s ability to emotionally and physically change Clyde Shelton – very impressive.  He’s now psychotic. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Shelton calmly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick the either fix the flawed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die.  Guess what happens?

Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell Shelton’s high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death.