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So, setting our entire film in motion is the premise that Jamie Foxx’s lawyer character doesn’t want to do his job because it is hard and the audience surrogate(up to this point) says, “That’s bullshit!” This setup bugged me for about half of the movie and then when I’d decided to let it go and roll with it Nick’s assistant played by Leslie Bibb asks him, “Do you regret the decision you made that has led to the deaths of so many innocents?” and Jamie Foxx is all silent and serious-face, yet clearly unconvinced of his wrongness. Butler has the correct reaction of waiting ten years to kill EVERYONE. Butler says “Ok, I can handle those odds” and Nick says “Sorry, not up to you, deed’s been done”. I related with Butler’s character as Nick explains, “we could win, but we could also lose”. So instead they’re doing a plea deal of some sort where one guy goes to death row while the other gets a couple of years. According to Nick, they could lose the case against these guys since after seeing his wife stabbed and raped, Butler passed out. A couple of thugs break into Gerard Butler’s house, beat and bind Butler and his wife, stab Butler and his wife, rape and kill the wife, then kill Butler’s daughter(offscreen). Foxx chooses to play him without a hint of remorse, sticking with bad decisions even after his boss is blown up with a missile launcher. Nick as written might have displayed a level of regret and soul-searching as he considered the consequences his decisions have had on the people around him. Jamie Foxx thinks he is a gift to us all and plays most characters that way. Downey can play an asshole like Tony Stark and make you feel compassion and empathy for an egomaniac alcoholic because RDJ in real life is a recovering addict who is grateful for his renewed success and is well aware of the slippery, untenable nature of fame, celebrity and sobriety. This is the difference between Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey Jr. in town and spends the rest of the movie pouting that no one will do what he says. He plays his early scenes like he is the flyest D.A.
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This lack of self-awareness leaves Foxx unsure of how to portray this heartless asshole character. You see, Jamie Foxx doesn’t think of himself as a jerk. Surprisingly, Jamie Foxx isn’t very good in this film precisely for this reason. In LAC Foxx plays Nick, a lawyer for the District Attorney of Philadelphia and a huge jagoff. Jamie Foxx is an actor who surprises me by being able to convincingly play sympathetic characters while portraying a public persona of a huge jagoff. Let me be clear: more than just being disgusting, Law Abiding Citizen is just a flat out terrible movie. The most surprising moral taught by Law Abiding Citizen is not the weakness of our justice system but that we need to be spending more time with our families. It wallows in grief and torture and uses those themes as mere props in a weak-ass “thrill ride”. Law Abiding Citizen is a disgusting film.
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