This movie has been a guilty pleasure of mine since it came out in 2007, and I don't think I can recommend it enough. From the suspension of disbelief required to make Kevin Bacon an ass-kicker, to the multi-ethnic street gang, to the detective who's surprisingly blase about the hero's repeated murders, I was screaming WTF as often as I was entertained. As weird as it sounds, I like to put this (much grimmer) movie in the same class as The Blind Side: a movie designed to reassure upper class suburbanites of their superiority in all things, whether that's raising disadvantaged inner-city youths or slaughtering disadvantaged inner-city youths.