The horribly wronged Count of Monte Cristo has you on side all the way through his revenge plot in Dumas' thousand-odd pages, but after his wife and child are brutally killed by home invaders in this film's opening scenes, Gerard Butler's horribly wronged Law Abiding Citizen only momentarily has your sympathy when suddenly the movie pulls the revenge-thriller rug out from under you and makes him the Batman technology-enhanced, street-smart Jason Bournish villain of the film and it is up to Jamie Foxx's prosecutor Nick Rice to stop him enacting his cold dish of extremely gruesome revenge on everyone that failed him.
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