Weekend Movie Forecast: Where the Wild Things Are or Black Dynamite

Law Abiding Citizen stars Gerard Butler as a man whose wife and daughter were raped and killed during a home invasion. One of the assailants got off in a plea deal, but ten years later Butler kills him and lands in jail himself. From behind bars he promises "hot shot" prosecutor Jamie Foxx that if the justice system isn't fixed, government officials involved in the flawed trial will wind up dead. And they do! Can Foxx save them? Do you care?

Dan Kois at the Washington Post sure doesn't: "A preposterous exercise in high-minded brutality, Law Abiding Citizen tries to pass itself off as a dialectic on justice betrayed, but instead plays like a snuff film with our nation's legal system as the victim...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."