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...Abiding Citizen had no pedigree at all. Based on an original screenplay, it stars Gerard Butler as a decent fellow who, when his wife and daughter are murdered in front of him, is transformed into an evil genius, terrorizing assistant D.A. Jamie Foxx and the rest of Philadelphia with murders of a scheming, Saw-like sadism. Saddled with a scathing 16% score from the "top critics" monitored on Rotten Tomatoes (Wild Things nabbed a gentleman's 68%), Citizen won audiences on star quality and the movie marketplace's lack of other adult-themed melodrama - read: crap for grownups. Younger viewers...
Those are healthy numbers, in miniature, but none of these bijou entries could compete with paranormal ghosts, Gerard Butler's blood lust or Spike Jonze's call to "Let the wild rumpus start...
Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is the mild, happily married Philadelphian who's forced to watch his family's atrocity up close. The two killers are arrested, but assistant DA Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), who's wary of trying a case he might lose, cuts a deal, letting one perp testify against the other. One is condemned to death; the other gets a light sentence. Outraged and embittered, Shelton lies low for 10 years, then activates a revenge scheme that is both madly complex and simply mad. He executes the killers in approved mad-scientist fashion - one by remote control...
...many interrogation scenes of “Law Abiding Citizen,” Jamie Foxx peers into Gerard Butler’s jail cell and asks him how his family would feel about the crimes he has committed. “My wife and daughter can’t feel anything,” Butler replies without missing a beat. “They’re dead.” Believe it or not, this is the film at its most profound. “Law Abiding Citizen” aspires to be a smart thriller akin to director...
...years after the bloodshed, unexplored truths of the Rwandan genocide are beginning to emerge, suggesting that there were many more villains than commonly thought and that not all of them were Hutus. In a book published late last year, Africa expert Gerard Prunier says, for example, that Kagame did not want foreign forces to intervene for fear that they would block his path to power. Prunier also says that Kagame's forces believed some Tutsis deserved death because they had not fled years of Hutu repression before the genocide. (See TIME's video "Rwanda's Cinema Under the Stars...