#Law abiding citizen netflix movie#
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We've also seen The Brave One, Taken, Death Sentence, a Walking Tall remake with The Rock, and even a rehash of Last House.

#Law abiding citizen netflix movie#

He produced Paparazzi, in which a movie star offs the snapper slimeballs who nearly killed his family, and he starred also in Payback, Ransom, even Hamlet, where a lone avenger takes his pounds and pounds of flesh with a certain gruesome relish. Mel Gibson, whose Bible, we should recall, contains just the one Testament, seems to have a secret hand in this. Now, with America divided into irreconcilable political factions, we get more of the same.

Around the same time вЂ“ a time, lest we forget, when New York City was a bankrupt hellhole of muggings and murders, America had just disengaged from the most divisive war in its history, seen its most corrupt president resign in ignominy, and lost all faith in the institutions charged with protecting them вЂ“ we also had Walking Tall (which like Death Wish, spawned numerous sequels) and Wes Craven's more thoughtful Last House On The Left, which nonetheless had the more Cro-Magnon sections of the audience cheering not just the revenge murders, but the rapes and killings that prompted them. Look at the first wave of rightwing fight-back flicks, jump-started 35 years ago by Michael Winner's noxious Death Wish, which had audiences leaping up and down in their seats cheering. I have this half-baked theory that vengeance movies do well in times of economic or social stress. Thing is, he's already in jail when most of the killings occur (cue evil genius!), which doesn't stop one victim from being surgically deprived of various extremities, up to and including his Johnson (hello, Saw!). Gerard Butler plays a man who takes complicated, detailed and violent revenge against the killers who raped and murdered his wife and daughter. Let's just say it doesn't tell us much except that the revenge movie is back with, um, a vengeance.

#Law abiding citizen netflix serial#

Law Abiding Citizen, which I should say at the outset is a terrible, terrible movie вЂ“ either the stupidest of the year so far or the most unintentionally funny вЂ“ takes the urban revenge movie and grafts on to it certain depressing innovations from other genres, including the serial killer-as-genius trope from The Silence Of The Lambs, and the post- Saw/ Hostel enthusiasm for torture-porn and mega bloodshed.