Thursday, January 16, 2014

Law Abiding Citizen



Sometimes I wonder why people make movies which glorify citizens taking the law into their hands. Your loved ones are brutally murdered, the convicts are let off lightly and you spend ten years preparing to kill everyone involved for the unfortunate incident. Is this a viable logic? 



Though the film tries to present an intellectual, innovative and well planned scheme behind the killings, all our hero does is vent out his revenge on others in the same gruesome manner (worse at times) the way his loved ones were killed. Some parts of the movie reminded me of the epic Shawshank Redemptions.



And by the time the veil was lifted and our smart hero’s execution of the massacre explained, I wasn’t the least bit interested, although considering the fact that the movie was less than 2 hours. Frankly, I really failed to understand who in the entire movie was abiding by the law!