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Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Huievest Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Masseyrt Considering the crime idris Elba's character is accused of and the fact taraji Henson's husband is a lawyer I find it ridiculous she didn't recognize him. There had to be news coverage considering the heinous aspects of the accusation. Glaringly stupid fact that RUINED THE MOVIE. Ms Henson is a incredibly beautiful actress I'm sorry this movie is so intellectually insulting.

Titanticks It's such a bad film that I could not finish it in one shot.There are too many stupid things in this film. Firstly, his ex girlfriend does not know how to behave to calm him down. She's completely stupid that it's unrealistic. The reason why many abused women stay with their abusers is because they're not always violent. No one would stay with someone who is violent every minute of every day. Even this film acknowledges that, Colin can be charming and calm if he wants to. He is incredibly calm with Terry despite being attacked many times. His girlfriend did not get that chance for some reason. He went straight to violence.Meg is also completely stupid. Instead of just going straight to Terry to ask her, she gives Colin the chance to stop her by saying "You're full of sh*t. I'm going to ask Terry about you to expose the total fraud you are." Um... why would you do that? Why would you warn him? This is like terrorists calling the cops to say "We placed a bomb in this building. It'll go off in 24 hours." For a cheesy film, sure, but this attempts to be realistic.Then Terry is the queen of stupidity. She attacked Colin four times and four times she runs away rather than deliver a second incapacitating blow. Instead of hitting him once every 14 minutes, honey, you could've hit him four times in a row and finished the job.Once she sprays him in the eyes with a fire extinguisher then hits him with it and he falls down the stairs. He stays there for a minute. She could've then smashed his fingers with the fire extinguisher and he would be quite useless. She could've taken the gun. Instead she just runs to another room. Colin just gets up because the only damage he has is temporary eye irritation from the foam and the fall down the stairs. She could've knocked him out, broken his fingers, disarmed him, but she chooses to do nothing.She doesn't learn from her mistake, however. The next time she hits him with the base of a lamp, a hard lamp that doesn't break but might cause him real damage, he falls, but instead of delivering another blow, she runs to the fax machine. He just recovers and comes back to her. The third time she actually stabs him with a knife. Instead of stabbing him a second time, she just runs into another room.The fourth time is when she stabs him multiple times but she stops for no reason. There's actually a fifth time, when she knocks him out with a metal thing but she just stares at him quietly until he wakes up and attacks her again.So fire extinguisher, lamp, knife, knife, metal bar, she hits him once with each, but all she does is run to another room.No one is this stupid and if they are, why should we care about them? I don't buy that this woman is a top lawyer of any kind.Also, Colin shows incredible restraint with her but total lack of self control with anyone else. He kills two women without any hesitation but does not hurt Terry once (until she stabs him multiple times, then he gets violent). He's either a violent hot-head or he isn't. You can't have it both ways.Also 911 is receiving a high volume of calls from an area where there's a wind storm? There's a dead police officer (not answering his radio presumably) and an escaped murderer, two dead transport COs, but the cops are just too busy to pick up the phone because everyone is calling to complain about the wind breaking their windows or setting off their car alarms? It makes no sense. What are the neighbors calling the cops about? Obviously it's not tips about the escaped murderer since no one is looking into it.This thing should trigger a statewide manhunt not "We're too busy to pick up the phone. Windstorm and all, you know how it is."And the cops came surprisingly fast considering no one called them. If they did not pick up her call, why would they pick up her husband calling them?We're also supposed to believe that this woman can out-wrestle Idris Elba and slap her husband so hard that he would fall.I gave this film 4 stars but after writing my review it has now dropped to 3.The only thing this film is good for is if it's free on Netflix and you're doing something else like laundry, but I'm not sure we should even be encouraging this crap.

phd_travel This thriller is actually quite a lot better than expected. Liked the way things tied up together. Doesn't always happen in this kind of thriller but here it does.Idris Elba is a charismatic lead villain and he may seem more of a hero than a villain at first but that is part of the story. Taraji shows an interesting transformation from naive bored housewife to woman who fights back. A couple of formula elements can't be avoided in this thriller eg the best friend and the cop. There is a twist in the race of the cast here with black leads and white supporting cast.Ignore the negative reviews, its surprisingly good.

bowmanblue Idris Elba. Arguably one of the coolest actors around right now. He can pretty much carry any part given to him. Yes, I'm a fan. And, as I expected of him, he's damn good here too. Unfortunately, one great actor does not make up for a film which is short on originality.Elba plays 'Colin.' A psychopath. Okay, so that's a generalisation. The early part of the film touches on his exact condition. However, he kills people, so 'psychopath' will work for me. And, he plays it pretty well, flitting between his natural charm and dangerous ability to bludgeon someone to death if he so feels inclined.But, luckily for Joe Public, he's been caught and imprisoned. Of course the film would be a lot less dull if he didn't escape pretty quickly and resume his terrorising. So, he does this and seeks refuge in a woman's home, pretending that his car has broken down. Of course she succumbs to his charm and lets him in, but, again, things never stay that way for long. What follows is a typical 'cat and mouse' kind of game with her doing her best to survive in her own home. I should just point out that she can't just escape at the earliest opportunity, as she has children.I have no problem with the plot. Yes, it could probably be a little more original, but I could still live with that. Or I could if it wasn't for the fact that it uses the same cliché over and over again (normally found in 'slasher' films). Three times (yes, I counted) in the space of about ten minutes does she totally get the drop on Elba and whack him with a fire extinguisher/lamp-thing/knife, only to run off instead of finishing him off. I know this kind of movie-gripe has been going on for years and, yes, I know if she killed him at the earliest opportunity it would be a pretty short film, but still... that lack of realism/originality just got to me after a while. Elba isn't supposed to be a monster or superhuman, yet he gets up from every blow and just chases after her – again, without killing her either due to ending the film early.Ultimately, you can't fault the performances, both Elba and his victim do all they can with what's been given to them. It's just a shame the 'vehicle' they're in is a little bit on the stale side. I guess if you're not into slasher films you may not notice it quite so much, but, for me, it just bugged me to the point where I found it hard to carry on watching.For die-hard Elba fans or casual viewers of the 'stalker/thriller' genre only.