Time Out says
Bristling umbrage morphs into intimidation and worse, leaving the victims no recourse to the LAPD, while bush fires close in on the suburb where the Rodney King incident unfolded. Understated symbolism or what? Actually, there are hints of a much better movie, since all is not rainbow-nation fulfilment in the couple’s household. Wilson oozes smug WASP-graduate entitlement and the whole set-up gets us questioning our attitudes since one can’t help pondering the effect of making the bullying neighbour white instead. It’s just that Jackson is stuck in a groove of mouthy self-righteousness which makes the character a cartoon long before the script lumbers towards its formulaic showdown. Still, the yawning chasm between the film’s aspirations to social significance and its cheese-o-licious straight-to-video construction make it a chucklesome guilty pleasure.
Release Details
- Rated:15
- Release date:Friday 5 December 2008
- Duration:110 mins
Cast and crew
- Director:Neil LaBute
- Screenwriter:David Loughery, Howard Korder
- Cast:
- Patrick Wilson
- Kerry Washington
- Samuel L Jackson
- Ron Glass
- Justin Chambers
- Jay Hernandez
- Regine Nehy
- Jaishon Fisher
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