Gerard Butler Should Have Killed Everyone In Law Abiding Citizen So I Rewrote The Ending
If you don’t remember this movie, go back and watch it again or for the first time. I watched after we finished Hi Haters the radio show last night. The movie is fucking incredible. There’s suspense, drama, and you really relate to a killer as much as you possibly can relate to a dude who is outchea chopping off testicles and balls with random household tools. We relate to him because every single one of us would want to do exactly the type of thing Gerard did in the movie if our families were killed like Butler’s character was. Simple as that.
Gerard Butler’s character is cunning, evil, and he’s just like us besides the fact that he can calculate murders days and weeks in advance. Killing the judge with a phone call and a bullet. Killing the attorney by burying him alive and having the time run out. Killing his cellmate with a steak bone. Heading to solitary confinement and still managing to blow up cars and having EOD robots mounted with large machine guns take out a funeral procession. The first hour and a half of that movie is just about as good as it gets for a high drama/action movie.
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They ruined it. They ruined it by having Jamie Foxx show back up in the cell. They ruined it by having the bomb go off and killing only Gerard Butler in the process. If Gerard Butler succeeds with his plan and kills the mayor and everyone else in that room at City Hall, the movie goes down as an all-time great. Instead, it was a sloppy ending for an otherwise great movie. It might honestly be the worst ending to a movie that was otherwise great in the last decade.
The movie should have ended with City Hall going up in flames and Gerald Butler sitting calmly in his cell. After the screen goes dark, a few words should appear. Those words?
Gerard Butler stands before a different judge and is asked to give his plea. Butler says, “your honor, I was a Law Abiding Citizen but now I am guilty.”
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