We’re informed it is ‘Ten Years Later’ during a match shot which switches Rice’s newborn baby girl into a ten-year-old (Emerald-Angel Young) making French toast, the better to connect directly with Shelton’s loss a decade prior. And of course, since it is clearly Darby who is the psychopath of the duo (Ames wants only to leave and objects to Darby’s assaults on the victims), he would be the one Rice would cut a deal with. Two home invaders, ostensibly out for robbery, seem more intent on subduing their victims than actually stealing anything – we never see them aim for anything beyond the foyer mantelpiece. The film has barely begun when we begin to question its logic. As the über-vigilante, Butler uses the same odd mouth-twisting exercise to achieve an American accent in “The Ugly Truth,” and the result is just as distracting as it was in that (superior!) film.
Gary Gray ("The Italian Job," "Be Cool") seems to have picked up on some “Seven”-like aspects of the script to arrive at the film’s visual look, but the effect it produces is more like “Saw V” crossed with every clichéd film about a detective’s last day on the job and a workaholic coming to appreciate his family. Years later, with Darby back on the street, Clyde challenges the entire Philadelphia Justice system as a “Law Abiding Citizen.” Screenwriter Kurt Wimmer’s last two efforts ("The Recruit," "Street Kings") weren’t exactly exercises in reality, but his latest is downright ludicrous. Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx, "Ray," "The Soloist") make a deal with Darby in order to get his partner, Ames (Josh Stewart, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," "The Collector"), the death sentence. Clyde survives, only to see Assistant D.A. When he comes to, he his bound and gagged and watches as one of the men, Clarence Darby (Christian Stolte, "The Lucky Ones," "Public Enemies"), stabs his wife, then takes his little girl out of sight. Inventor Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler, "The Ugly Truth") answers the door of his Philadelphia row house one evening and is overwhelmed by two home invaders with a baseball bat to the face.
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