Bad Samaritan is a B movie dark thriller with enough twists and plenty of lapses in logic.
Set in Portland, Oregon. Sean (Robert Sheehan) and his friend Derek (Carlito Olivero) are valet parkers in a restaurant. As the guests dine, they use the sat nav to go to their houses and rob it.
Sean goes to rob's Cale (David Tennant) house, an obnoxious rich guy who drove to the restaurant in a Maserati. Sean discovers a terrified young woman bound and gagged.
Sean goes to the police who do not believe his story. Cale discovering what has happened seeks to make his life a misery. It piques his psychopathic tendencies.
Director Dean Devlin manages to find some humour with some mild torture porn. It is not Hitchcock and too tame to be Hostel.
Tennant's American accent is a bit distracting. It lapses into silliness too often.
Bad Samaritan
2018
Action / Crime / Horror / Thriller
Bad Samaritan
2018
Action / Crime / Horror / Thriller
Keywords: murderserial killerpolicefbicabin
Plot summary
In Portland, the amateurish photographer Sean Falco works with his best friend Derek Sandoval as valet at a fancy restaurant. His girlfriend Riley Seabrook studies in a university and he is estranged of his stepfather. Sean and Derek are also smalltime burglars, stealing from the houses of the customers while they are eating in the restaurant. One day, the obnoxious client Cale Erendreich arrives at the restaurant driving a Maserati and Sean drives his car back to his house using the computer and Derek watches Cale in the restaurant. While snooping around the house, Sean finds a locked room and when he opens the door, he stumbles upon a woman tied to a chair with chains and gagged. He unsuccessfully tries to release her but he is forced to return to the restaurant with the Maserati. Sean decides to call the police, but Cale fools the police officers and turns Sean's life upside-down.
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Bad Samaritan
Thumbs down for this weak-written thriller
BAD SAMARITAN is an astonishingly poor thriller in which a young man attempts to burgle a seemingly ordinary house only to discover something extraordinary inside. Yes, it's another version of THE COLLECTOR, a popular type of plot these days, but this is a film that goes down the dark thriller route rather than out-and-out horror. It's saddled with bad writing throughout, throwing in the cliches and weak characters and not giving the viewer much to enjoy otherwise. The villain's activities become increasingly preposterous as the running time progresses, and David Tennant is quite awful in the part, which doesn't bode well for his forthcoming turn as serial killer Dennis Nilsen. Thumbs down!
nice thriller
Sean Falco (Robert Sheehan) is a good guy at heart with girlfriend Riley. Secretly, he's a small time thief with his buddy Derek Sandoval. They use their valet jobs to sneak into unsuspecting diners' homes. One such diner is ill-tempered Cale Erendreich (David Tennant). When Sean breaks into Cale's home, he discovers a woman chained up inside. He tries to do the right thing which has its repercussions.
This is an old fashion thriller and I like it as such. There are a couple of things that I like about the characters and a couple of things that I see possible improvements. I do like Sean's unabashed need to save the girl and I also like Derek's realistic need to save himself. I like both performances. As for Tennant, he is perfectly creepy. He does need to kidnap the girlfriend. That's the big opportunity missed by the movie. Instead, it becomes a misunderstanding which leaves her looking clueless. On the other hand, I don't mind the clueless police detective. He has reasons to be clueless. It's nice to have a smart FBI agent although she has a few too many backups. They're trying a little too hard. It's more intense to have Agent Fuller alone struggling inside the system. Overall, I like Sean as a smart normal thief who has morality which drives him and drives this movie.