To avoid giving out candy last night, Mrs. That Dan Guy and I went shopping, had dinner out, and caught “Law-Abiding Citizen” – the new action/drama movie starring Gerard Butler, and Jamie Foxx. Hey, if Jamie had appeared onscreen dressed AS a fox, there would have been some Halloween tie-in there!

He did not…

However – GREAT FLICK! OK, a tad on the violent side, but overall – a great potboiler, even though you know the whole way through that Butler as the vigilante is responsible for all the onscreen mayhem – it’s in the curves and twists that the storyline takes that makes it all so dang enjoyable. Foxx plays a convincing role as the high-flying D.A. Butler is trying to affect by his actions – the D.A. whom by the way we should be rooting for as the audience, but we were both cheering for the vigilante.

Hey, the movie is set in Philadelphia, which we got to spend some time in a few years back – and the Phillies just happen to be taking on the New York Yankees for the World Series Cup, or whatever it is they give away for baseball champs. Coincidence? I think not…

Anyhow, can’t say much about the movie itself without giving away the farm, but if you like Charles Bronson-styled vigilante movies (Charles Bronson was a big movie star back in the 1970’s…sheesh…), you’ll love this inventive take on the genre.

Chow for now!!