Jamie Fox and Gerard Butler star in a new thriller from director F.Gary Gray, and it's one of the best things any of the three of them has ever done. For Butler, he's got a few films that are better (300, Rock N Rolla), for Fox, this is probably his best, and for F Gary Gray, well, he's done a bad job with movies more often than a good job (Be Cool).
But this movie is a step up for all of them. It's about one man taking on the system and by the system I mean the city of Philadelphia. That one man is Gerard Butler, and the first quarter of the movie, the setup if you will, is fairly conventional. Man loses family to killers. Man becomes killer and goes after those responsible after court fails him. It's all very familiar from movies like Death Sentence. But then Butler goes after the cops and things get interesting.
He's got one trick up his sleeve after another, and they're all a lot of fun. There's even a nice little surprise where the magic trick is revealed and we learn how he did it all. The movie is both a thriller and a mystery and I like that it is not a one on one showdown, and instead has Butler target everyone in the cities government, including both the mayor and city hall. In that way it reminds me of The Dark Knight. Butler is very good in the role and F Gary Gray keeps things pretty edgy. It's a fun time at the movies and something a little different.
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So how was Gerard Butler's performance?
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