Starring Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx, I would place this film in the Thriller/Action genre that is becoming popular. Overall I really liked it, even though I thought the ending was kind of cheap. But it was fun to see Butler playing a bad guy, even if he was a “empathetic” bad guy, the kind that we, the audience, empathize with and almost cheer him on. Kind of like the anti-hero that is becoming so popular as well, but I don’t think I would necessarily call Butler’s character an anti-hero. More like an anti-villain, if the same rules of anti-hero apply. An anti-hero is a hero with flaws that grate against the traditional heroic qualities, like Batman or Rorschach. So it seems plausible that an anti-villain would be a villain with qualities contradictory to the traditional villain, like a bad guy that drives the conflict but has a sympathetic motive, i.e. avenging the death of his family. Only other example I can currently think of is the Sandman from Spiderman 3.
Anyway. It seemed Butler wasn’t able to completely shed his Scottish accent for this one, not that I mind. And Jamie Foxx was brilliant – he always gives 110%. I’d recommend it for a night at the movies.
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