Top 5 Most Unlikely Actors to be Cast in an Action Movie Which is cool at first, but man does it fail to deliver the goods eventually! I’ll keep referencing David Fincher’s Seven (aka SE7EN) as its John Doe protagonist appears to be what Law Abiding Citizen’s Clyde Alexander Shelton’s ( Gerald Butler) character is at least in the vein of.īut for action fans, the vigilante revenge plot will be familiar enough, it just has a much darker added twist. Gary Gray and writer Kurt Wimmer didn’t find a way to sneak one in to an era where action absolutely had to be thematically tied with other genres like crime, thriller, or much worse… romance. The Best Ultimate Action Movies of 2019 (So Far…)Ģ009 is not the greatest year for ultimate action movies, but damned if director F.
Turned out it was just a squinty eyed Gerard Butler on the cover with Jamie Foxx, and by the time I realized my mistake I was a good 30 minutes into the movie and was already hooked.įrom a brilliant opening, to some solid Fincher-esque cinematography and a tight plot (at first), Law Abiding Citizen slowly turns into one of the most disappointing finishes of all time – and very well could have been a worthy action franchise in its own right if it had just stayed true to its guns. Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx go mental for each other in ‘Law Abiding Citizen’ (2009).Īlright, to be perfectly honest I only recently watched Law Abiding Citizen because, while scrolling on Amazon Prime, I thought it starred Steven Seagal.