Law Abiding Citizen Critic Reviews

One of those movies you like more at the time than in retrospect.Read the full review

The script does create sufficient tension and intrigue to hook viewers along with a photogenic, hardworking cast.Read the full review

True torture-porn aficionados will be disappointed, as editor Tariq Anwar cuts away right before blade meets flesh -- a move that feels a tad, well, gutless under the circumstances. But elsewhere, "Citizen" proves startlingly graphic, even by R-rated standards.Read the full review

Deep within Law Abiding Citizen lurks a thought-provoking movie. But most of what we see on the screen is implausible, superficial and only marginally involving.Read the full review

The biggest problem with Law Abiding Citizen, however, is that the plot is just plain dumb.Read the full review

Clyde is meant to be nuts, but too often it's Law Abiding Citizen that checks rationality at the door.Read the full review

The film's greatest sin isn't its cynical moral posturing but its complete failure to engage audiences on even a visceral level.Read the full review

Jeez, did the "surprise" climax have to be this eye-rollingly stupid?Read the full review

A movie devoted to baroque revenge would be, on its own terms, acceptable; what makes Law Abiding Citizen so risible is its humorless conviction that it's got Big Ideas at its core.Read the full review