No Good Deed

    No Good Deed
    2014

    Synopsis

    Terri is a devoted wife and mother of two, living an ideal suburban life in Atlanta when Colin, a charming but dangerous escaped convict, shows up at her door claiming car trouble. Terri offers her phone to help him but soon learns that no good deed goes unpunished as she finds herself fighting for survival when he invades her home and terrorizes her family.

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    Cast

    • Idris ElbaColin Evans
    • Taraji P. HensonTerri
    • Leslie BibbMeg
    • Kate del CastilloAlexis
    • Henry SimmonsJeffrey
    • Tatom PenderSally
    • Kelly O'NealOfficer Jacobs
    • Dan CaudillCop
    • Mirage MoonscheinRyan
    • Kenny AlfonsoJavier

    Recommendations

    • 60

      TheWrap

      [A] perfectly serviceable thriller.
    • 50

      Entertainment Weekly

      There's an intriguing premise buried in there that could have resulted in a smart look inside the mind of a malignant narcissist (which, the movie reminds us over and over again, was Jeffrey Dahmer's diagnosis too).
    • 40

      Variety

      Ensuing action is tamely PG-13 in terms of graphic violence. Despite competent performances and packaging, dialogue and situations in Aimee Lagos’ script are too routine to create much excitement.
    • 38

      McClatchy-Tribune News Service

      Would No Good Deed have anything worth talking about without the Ray Rice sucker punch tie-in? Barely.
    • 33

      The A.V. Club

      By its end, No Good Deed becomes troublingly easy to read as a parable about the untrustworthiness of black men. The filmmakers may not have intended it that way, but the movie is so bereft of anything else that its forays into moralistic paranoia stick out.
    • 30

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      It’s certainly not good. But it’s not entirely dire.
    • 30

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Elba, who recruited his former Luther director Miller into the project, gives the film more dignity than it deserves, and Henson delivers a performance of complex emotional shadings. But their fine work is utterly wasted in this B-movie exploitation thriller that would barely make for passable viewing on late night cable television.
    • 30

      The Dissolve

      To the film’s mild credit, it’s the rare woman-in-peril thriller where the woman takes intelligent steps to defend herself.

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