While not enough of a straightforward thriller to attract widescale younger audiences, the film is still a very effective showcase for the cool menace that star Samuel L. Jackson can project. - Screen International
Such a hammer-on-anvil approach that it's clear LaBute and his writers place little trust in subtlety and damn near none in off-message complexity. - Cinema Signals
Like the fires creeping toward the Lakeview Terrace neighborhood, the film soon gets out of control and flies off the deep end. - Journal And Courier
Drums up the odd moment of effective mild suspense before succumbing to standard genre shenanigans - Dark Horizons
I love Samuel Jackson. He's a hard man not to like. One of the hardest working men in movies, and he always seems to enjoy whatever role he is playing, but with a look about him that seems to suggest he's waiting to get found out and have it all taken away.
Jackson carries the film here and whilst it does have it's high points, they are truly few and far between. This plot has been travelled as recently (and with more deftness) as Disturbia. The next-door neighbour with a secret and an attitude to boot. The twist here is that your next-door neighbour from hell is also a member of the towns' police.
And here is where the hook truly is for the film-makers. What do you do if you're being terrorised by a member of the law? Who do you turn to and where do you go for help?
The film never enters true fear for the victims of these seemingly innocuous crimes agianst them, until the end of the film, which is rushed and ineffective.
Entertaining enough to view just the once, but will not spark anyone into gleeful and momentous praise.
Out in UK cinemas on 5th December
Current Imdb Rating 6.4/10 Chocolate Box Rating 6/10
