A.C.’s Review: I
had seen previews for some months now about this movie and anticipated
it coming out. Now having seen it…it is nothing really special. A couple
must deal with
the sudden intrusion into their lives of a former classmate of the
husband from back in the day. Soon the classmate Gordo (Joel Edgerton)
becomes almost a stalker and tends to appear during the day when the
wife (Rebecca Hall) is home alone. After several
encounters the husband (Jason Batemen) attempts to break off the
relationship. Soon after unsettling things begin to happen such as the
temporary disappearance of their dog.
If
this description of events is as pedestrian as it sounds it’s because
it is. Nothing elevates this above a TV movie you might have seen back
in the day when the
networks use to give one or two nights of their schedules to made for
television movies.
The
movie attempts a twist near the end but it falls with a thud. The whole
thing was not very engaging. A thriller with no thrills.
Best
Scene: Gordo invites them to a dinner party at his house (only later it
turns out not to be his out at all as the husband finds out when he
returns to confront
Gordo)
A.C.’s Rating: DVD
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