What could be safer than living next to a cop?
Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.
Cast |
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Ron Glass, Justin Chambers, Jay Hernandez, Regine Nehy, Jaishon Fisher |
Director |
Neil LaBute |
Screenplay | David Loughery, Howard Korder |
Music | Jeff Danna, Mychael Danna |
Cinematography | Rogier Stoffers |
Editing | Overbrook Entertainment, Screen Gems |
Sound formats | Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS |
Made in | 2008 |
Produced by | Joe Plotch |
Official Site | IMDB page | ScreenIt Report
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Genre | Drama |
Language | Mild, within context |
Nudity | None |
Sex | Implied |
Violence | Realistic, within context |
Prejudice | Strong references to racial differences |
Blasphemy | None |
Drug abuse | None |
Comments | None |
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Disrespectful / Bad Attitude |
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Topics to talk about |
Scale (Max) | 20 | |
What the Critics say | ||
Cape Argus / The Star Kgomotso Moncho | 15 | |
Die Burger Jacques Liebenberg | 15 | |
Cape Times Michael Sragow | 5 | |
iAfrica.com Nils van der Linden | 8 | |
24.com Niel Bekker | 5 | |
Chicago Sunday Times Roger Ebert I find movies like this alive and provoking, and I'm exhilarated to have my thinking challenged at every step of the way. | 20 | |
eye Weekly Jason Anderson The movie does inspire the hope that more studio thrillers will take a wider view of the world. | 10 | |
ReelViews James Berardinelli It's too bad the movie's moderately intriguing qualities are buried under the final half-hour's avalanche of predictability. | 10 | |
Rolling Stone Peter Travers The main problem with this treatise on racial politics undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil LaBute, didn't write the script. | 10 | |
ScreenIt C. Fuchs Fortunately, and unlike a bad neighbor, one can easily move away from this busy but far too familiar member of the cinematic community not long after being introduced to it. | 8 | |
Metacritic.com 28 critics | 9 | |
Rottentomatoes critics 119 critics | 11 | |
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer This thriller about a menacing cop wreaking havoc on his neighbors is tense enough but threatens absurdity when it enters into excessive potboiler territory. | 8 | |
What the People say | ||
Internet 2700 Netizens Remind me never to let Samuel L. Jackson borrow a cup of sugar from my place | 13 | |
Average .. 53% | 11 |