Jamie Foxx channels Denzel Washington in his latest film.
Remember back in the ’90s when Denzel Washington kept churning out a series of middling, mediocre thrillers like Virtuosity, Fallen and The Bone Collector? Those movies always cast Washington as an upstanding public servant (usually a cop) who matches wits with a prolific serial killer. Based on the trailer, Jamie Foxx’s new film Law Abiding Citizen looks like a flick that Denzel never got around to making at that point in his career. The Oscar-winning actor plays a by-the-book prosecutor who takes on a high-profile case in which two burglars killed a little girl right in front of her father (300 star Gerard Butler). Over the pleas of the grieving dad, Foxx strikes a deal that gives the crooks a lighter sentence. Infuriated by this miscarriage of justice, Butler–who happens to be an ex-special ops agent–hatches an elaborate revenge plan that targets the bad guys…as well as Foxx. Viola Davis and Leslie Bibb co-star and director F. Gary Gray (who has a few solid thrillers under his belt, including The Negotiator) orchestrates the action from behind the camera. Look for Law Abiding Citizen in theaters on October 16.
Post by Ethan Alter in The Magazine on Aug 19, 2009 at 12:35 pm
