20 Movies Destroyed By Their Plot Holes

20. Law Abiding Citizen - Clyde's Ridiculous Scheming

With its gory violence and angry, steely vibe, Law Abiding Citizen is a movie that you can enjoy... if you switch your brain off completely. If you think about anything that occurs in this story for longer than a minute, you're going to give yourself a splitting headache. It's so darn ludicrous. 

This vigilante thriller sees Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler), a former government assassin, embark on the most insane campaign of revenge against his family's killers and the justice department, who gave those killers overly short sentences. Around halfway through, Clyde is locked up in jail, yet various murders continue - how can his crimes still be happening?

It eventually turns out that Clyde deliberately got himself locked up in solitary confinement because he actually dug tunnels between the prison and his lair. All along, he's been sneaking in and out of jail and carrying out his killings that way. So, how were these tunnels not discovered? What if he'd been put in a different prison or different section of it? Clyde is meant to be this genius assassin, but he actually left an awful lot to chance. 

That's not even addressing the increasing silliness of his acts, which includes somehow sneaking a big-ass rocket launcher into a cemetery. It's a shame, because this flick does have some noteworthy positives, and it is something of a cult classic, but for many, it will be too ridiculous to view as anything more than a guilty pleasure at the most.