

Law Abiding Citizen
Justice at any cost.
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
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7.4/10
5,911 votes
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $53M
- Box office
- $127.9M
- Language
- English
- prison
- assassin
- philadelphia, pennsylvania
- bomb
- secret passage
- deal
- investigation
- gore
- torture
- explosion
- justice
- criminal mastermind
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United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalR15 Oct 2009
- PhysicalRDVD, Blu-ray16 Feb 2010
- PhysicalR4K UHD6 Nov 2018
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1827 Nov 2009
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+28 Jan 2010
BrazilBR
- Theatrical166 Nov 2009
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical18+19 Nov 2009
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1530 Oct 2009
FranceFR
- Theatrical1222 Dec 2010
GermanyDE
- Theatrical1619 Nov 2009
- Physical18Unrated Director's Cut22 Nov 2019
GreeceGR
- Theatrical1629 Oct 2009
HungaryHU
- Theatrical183 Dec 2009
- Physical18DVD15 Oct 2010
IrelandIE
- Theatrical1827 Nov 2009
IsraelIL
- Theatrical22 Dec 2010
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Law Abiding Citizen was released on 15 October 2009.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
6/6/2014
You can’t fight fate. Right? Gerard Butler stars as Clyde Shelton, a man forced to not only watch his wife and daughter be raped and murdered in his own home, but to also have to sit there and watch the justice system fail him. So he wages a one man war against pretty much everyone involved. Hoo-Hah! The big hitting critics hated it, with comments ranging from it being sub-normal, preposterous, ugly and morall…
- V6/10
vylmen
11/27/2024
Not the ending I wanted Some movies you want the bad guy to win and this is one of them. There's a few things missing here, like the setup that Clyde is really this smart inventor guy leading a double life. That could've used some secret door behind a front working in a lab kind of shots. And that Nick Rice is actually smarter, cause he wasn't. Other than that, it does keep you on your toes, mostly to see what Cly…
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