Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!

Ploydsge just watch it!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

wildblueyonder Loved the way this story is put together, little miniature caricature studies of people you live near/around/with....Its kind of a mystery, and like any mystery it would be nice if the ending was a bit of an 'ah ha ' moment... wasn't for me hence 7 of 10.Actually really impressed by Speedman, who knew he might be an actor?

kyubyt9 Louise, Victor, Spencer, two dead cats, one cat hating woman, and clueless landlord. Victor likes Louise, Louise "loves" cats(almost to the extent of getting aroused by their touch), cats are all around and Spencer is a serial killer. All lives in one apartment. Victor lives above Louise while Spencer lives below her.The cat hating woman lives in the same apartment but not sure which floor.Now, the cat hating woman (chw) poisons two of Louise's cats. Louise wants revenge. Buries the cats below chw's window. Not satisfied, decides to kill her and pin the murder on the someone namely Victor. So she gets Victors sperms (i guess she had sex or just gave him a hand job, the censors didn't show what happened) goes to chw's room kills her and inserts the sperms into her, walks away a satisfied happy woman.Spencer is in wheelchair. Likes to be left alone. Likes to rape and kill women or maybe kill and rape them. Now he can do that cause he is just pretending to be handicapped. In the night he goes out the window down the fire escape and has fun his style. Victor is a guy who wants to endear himself to everyone especially to Louise (he thinks there is a connection between him and her). He is sometimes stupid, sometimes annoying, mostly annoying. When the cops ask him if he knew the dead 'chw' he spills everything about the cat killing incident also tell that he was with Louise on the night of the murder in his apartment. Louise on the other hand tells the cops that she was alone at her apartment. Victor sees Spencer from his window while Spencer was about to go on one of his joyrides. He suspects Spencer saw him too and would want to kill him, He also suspects him to have killed the 'chw'. so he tells Louise about this and makes a plan to trap him while he comes to kill him. He also calls on the cops and conveys to them of his suspicion of Spence. There is a problem which Louise also needs to handle. On her way back. the day she killed off the 'chw', she bumped in to Spencer who was about to be on his way for his joyride, but was not sure how to act on seeing him walk, asks him to help her up the fire escape, which he does. Spencer too was put in a tight spot cause of what happened and also he saw Victor looking at him from his window. So he calls on Louise to hatch a plan to pin the murder of 'chw' on victor.Well whatever, Louise agrees to both guys plan cause all she has to do was go to victors apartment and open the window near the fire escape go back to her room and relax. The end is like Spencer goes in to kill Victor, sees Victor waiting for him realizes Louise double crossed him goes back to kill her gets stopped by victor fights on the fire escape falls down and dies,the cop who sees Spencer climb up, from his car parked below the apt reaches to Victors aid but was too late. All this while Louise was feeding her cat. Oh and she also tried to seduce Spencer before she killed off the 'chw'. Not sure what really happened there.

samdfloyd I very rarely post reviews of even the most outstanding (or, say, outrageously bad) films on IMDb, and one major reason is that (in general, i.e. usually) the films I see have either been reviewed hundreds of times or seem to have been fairly reviewed by the relatively few who've contributed their thoughts. This, however, is an exceptional case! The majority of this film's other reviews so far posted here are either negative or lukewarm, which is a tragedy for the prospective viewer, at least if she takes that to be a reason for passing this clever, immensely enjoyable gem over! I find it kind of shocking that there aren't more (at this time, there is only one other) extremely positive reviews of this film here. The only thing I can come up with to explain that fact is this: Good Neighbors is pitched at a fairly high level; the humor is subtle and often perverse, depending upon multiple layers of irony and extensive character development; the drama/suspense does NOT depend upon much mystery qua whodunit (although the movie "plays by the rules" in that it gamely keeps the viewer open-minded about the killer's identity, to this viewer the killer's identity was rather overtly apparent from the opening scenes...I second guessed myself at times, but...) but rather on the tension between what the viewer knows and what the characters don't, all of which means that less astute viewers might not notice most of what's going on in this film (several people here have called the movie 'flat', which honestly makes me inclined to call them 'dull'). I don't want to say anything about the actual plot here, but for those of you who enjoy intelligent films (e.g. Coen Brothers films, as another reviewer aptly noted) even though the proper appreciation thereof will engage more of one's mind than more escapist fare, this is pure indie treasure. For a third world country, Canada sure produces more than her share of cultural jewels...(jokes)!

andrew9069 I was interested in seeing this movie mainly due to the setting: murders in NDG during the last referendum (it was a poignant time). However, the use of this setting was under-developed to the point of being useless. This story could have taken place anywhere. What did it matter to the story that this conflict between Quebec's two solitudes was taking place? How did it affect the murders? Why waste time on it if it doesn't? Was it just supposed to be a point of connection between the neighbours? Why not just hockey? What was the "serial killer's" motivation anyway? This was never explained... I guess it's supposed to be enough that a serial killer just likes to kill? Also, I found that the story was entirely from an "anglo" perspective with the other groups portrayed negatively and/or 2-dimensionally. This movie had nothing particular to say and I never gave a rat's ass about any of the characters... maybe that was intentional, because they didn't really care about anyone else. It also supposedly takes place from October to February, but all scenes look like they were filmed in December! This could have been forgiven if the rest of the movie was better developed. And "Roland" is a common French Canadian name... no one in Montreal would ever comment on it one way or the other... that "joke" just didn't work. Just shows how out of touch the filmmakers are with their environment. On a positive note, there were some nice shots of my neighbourhood and familiar apartments... and top notch French-Quebecois swearing ;) Only Montrealers interested in local movie productions would find this movie mildly intriguing. All others, stay away. If this movie is any indication of the state of movie-making in English Quebec, we're not doing too well. If you want to see an entertaining movie with something to say about the Canadian French-English dichotomy, see Bon Cop Bad Cop. If you already have, you'll be like me and want to see it again!