The story starts with Clyde Shelton that is played by Gerard Butler, he witnessed

the rape and murder of his wife and young daughter by two burglars who breaks in
his house leaving Clyde to pass out after being emotionally scarred. Nick Rice
played by Jamie Foxx is a prosecutor who is handling Clydes case told that the
judge ruled that the DNA was inadmissible and the opposing counsel maneuvered it
causing them to have a setback. Nick took upon himself to make a decision for
Clyde because of his 96% conviction rate and made a deal with Darby to testify
against Ames and will go straight to death row while Darby will plead guilty to third
degree murder and will only serve five years best leaving Clyde feel betrayed of
Nicks actions.
Ten years later Ames was executed via lethal injection and suffered from severe
pain because of the alteration in the chemicals. Meanwhile Darby was abducted and
was slowly tortured and dismembered by Clyde. Because of the history of Darbys
past crime that pointed out to Clyde he was arrested. Clyde made deals with Nick if
he wanted a confessions from him and resulted in to a lot of discipline from Clyde
and ended up to a lot of people dying because Nick wasnt following him.
After killing his cellmate Clyde was put in solitary confinement and made another
deal with Nick and ends up being too late or not holding their end of bargain that
again caused a lot of peoples lives. While looking for evidences Nick receives an
email with the information of Clydes small property where they discovered a tunnel
leading to prison and found Clydes room empty.
While disguised as a janitor, Clyde plants a cell phone activated napalm bomb in
City Hall where the Mayor and everyone who are present in the meeting. Nick, along
with his subordinates tries to stop the bomb from exploding instead they come up
to a plan. As Clyde goes back to his prison he was surprise to found Nick there.
Clyde offers one more deal but Nick refuses and decides to detonate the napalm
bomb. Much to Clydes surprise Nick quickly exits and locks the doors. Clyde
realizes that the bomb was place under his bed but instead sits and stares at the
bracelet his daughter had made and the cell explodes. In the end Nick for the first
time was seen watching his daughters performance.
In this film it showed how the system is imperfect and the servants of it is also
imperfect. How one person played the system by studying it and proving a point to
the servants of the law how easily sometimes it is to get away from crimes and that
also the servants of the law are misguided just for some tactical legal precedents. It
also showed how a servant of the system do their jobs the way that best served
them and not the way that served best for the people. The character of Clyde
Shelton showed that justice is harsh especially for those who denied it to others and
lastly how people should always be held accountable for their actions.