Law Abiding Citizen

I just love this movie. Everything about it, and all the people it in. I don't have children, but I can tell you if someone tortured and murdered my spouse and child in front of me while I lay helpless, I'd want nothing more than to spend 10 years plotting my revenge. A brutal, bloody revenge. What is prison to someone who has to live every day with the images of a small child being killed right before you? Jamie Foxx's character ADA Nick Rice takes a "deal" to let the killer of Gerard Butler (Clyde Shelton's) family's killers get a shortened sentence by turning evidence against the other killer. From his first kill, I'm hooked. He's brutal, heartless, meticulous, and I don't blame him one bit. He tells Rice he would have been happier NOT taking the deals, and losing the case if it meant he tried and put the killers on trial. That's powerful stuff. He knows that the legal system doesn't always work, but he refuses to give in to the games that make it corrupt. In his quest he kills innocent people, anyone who was involved in his family's case, and eventually himself. But he dies because Nick Rice refuses to make a deal with him for his life - and that makes him happy. He dies when his work is done and even a godless chick like me believes that man will be with his wife and daughter.