Well like The Final Destination there isn't much to say about this movie. It follows Gerard Butler who for reasons we learn later witnesses his family murdered in front of him. We also follow Jamie Foxx who is a rising star in the D.A.'s office and when the trial of the two men who murdered Butler's family comes across Foxx's desk he does what every attorney does... he makes a deal with one to convict the other.
This clearly won't sit well with Butler as he wants to see both men go to jail for their crimes. It doesn't help that Foxx makes a deal with the guy that committed the actual murders, while the man convicted was just a "lookout".
Fast forward 10 years and Foxx is now the D.A. and Butler is now ready to see his master plan come to fruition. I won't tell you what he does, but if you've seen the trailer you know that it involves a lot of killing and blowing up of things.
Overall this movie was competently directed, but that is about all I can say. I didn't go into this thinking I was watching something spectacular, I just like to watch every movie I can. For me it's the experience of watching movies. It also helps to see movies that don't work to learn what does work.
This movie was a typical hollywood affair. Foxx and Butler clearly did it for a paycheck although the difference between them is that Foxx has actually made a movie that was worth watching more than once, Butler hasn't. He's actually not a bad actor, he just chooses movie roles that utilize his brawn over all else and that subsequently keeps him one step ahead of the WWC wrestler John Cena in the action movie genre.
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