Clyde Shelton's family is brutally murdered and the people responsible are caught. Because of improper procedures by the D.A. Nick Rice has only circumstantial evidence. Rice decides to get one of the criminals to testify against the other. When Clyde learns of this, he is not happy. Ten years later, the criminal who was convicted is being executed but something goes wrong during the process? His execution goes awry, he suffers and it is discovered that someone tampered with the machine? The other person convicted is found dead and killed in a gruesome manner? Rice suspects Clyde is the guilty party so he has him picked up. In the beginning, Clyde agrees to a plea agreement with Rice but he changes his mind. It appears that Clyde is not finished, he blames the whole system and is declaring war on everyone involved with his family's case. Rice must stop him but Shelton is way ahead of him!!!
109 min, Action directed by F. Gary Gray, written by Kurt Wimmer with Gerard Butler, Jamie Foxx, Leslie Bibb, Bruce McGill, Com Meaney, Michael Irby, Gregory Itzin, Regina Hall, Emerald-Angel Young, Christian Stolte, Annie Corley.
Note: Imdb 7.4* out of 10* with 276,450 reviews,
Special Note: Director F. Gary Gray decided to use Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse as the restaurant that caters Clyde's lunch after dining there several times during filming. The restaurant was also the location of the film's after-party following its screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival. When he is in Clyde's house, Colm Meaney asks Jamie Foxx if Clyde is a lawyer and he hands him a volume of the U.S. Code (federal statutes). This volume has the bankruptcy code and this would not appear to be helpful to Clyde's plan? But he may have just had the complete set of volumes and one pulled that one at random? Gerard Butler’s character uses the line "It's not what you know, it's what you can prove in court". This is the same line Denzel Washington used in Training Day (2001) minus the "in court”.
Mistakes: Assuming the movie takes place in 2009, the seventh-generation Honda Accord (introduced in 2003) seen behind Clyde as he watches Nick shaking Darby's hand during the press conference in 1999 would not have existed? The CCTV cameras used for monitoring the prison interview 'bird cage' are IKEGAMI ITC CTC-5000 models dating from the late 60's through the the early 70’s. Clearly the movie is set in the 21st century and cameras are replaced at least every decade or so. In the recital scenes, it is obvious that the cello shown on screen is not making the music being heard. At the first recital the bowing does not match and at the second recital the finger placement is wrong.
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