MOVIE REVIEW - No Good Deed

The new thriller, No Good Deed hits theaters this week, and that alone is just flat out too bad.  What a thud.

Idris Elba is a great actor, who I have liked in a ton of movies, but this is not his finest hour.  Elba has seemingly taken his Brinks Truck full of cash from Thor, and other hits, and has decided to start producing his own movies like this one.  It's a shame this choice was a terrorizing women movie. And with current events happening in the real world, this is ill-timed, and certainly ill advised.

Elba stars as Colin.   He is an escaped con, who gains his freedom by killing a DOC guard, and an elderly DOC driver on his way back from a parole hearing.  He then goes on to locate his ex-fiance' and proceeds to kill her because she didn't wait for him while he was in jail.  Why do we tell you this here?  Because you know it's going to happen.   Colin is a psychopath who is violent, and is suspected in killing a lot of women in the past.

He then finds Terri. She is very nice woman living in suburban Atlanta with two small children.  After staging a car crash, Colin then comes knocking on Terri's door in need of help, which of course she provides willingly.  Her husband is out of town, and her marriage is on the rocks, so she is a bit vulnerable.  This highly educated woman then invites Colin in, gives him tea, washes his clothes, gives him dry clothes, fixes his wounds, announces her husband is away for the weekend, all the while exposing her children to a total stranger at night during a horrible storm. Who in the world would do this?  Insanely insulting.

Of course Colin then begins terrorizing her and the kids.  Terri figures it out that this stranger she was contemplating sleeping with a few minutes ago after the kids are asleep, is really a bad guy.  Hello? But why?  Well there is a plot twist at the end that tries to explain it to you, but you more than likely won't care by then.

This is just horrible on about every level.  Besides being ill-timed, and advised, the script is amazingly lame and incredibly unoriginal.  This develops the dumbest characters ever, and strongly reinforces stereotypes we are working so hard to erase all the way around.  Every character has been in every single movie like this that has come before it.   This poorly written, directed, and thought out.  The best thing that cane be said about this, is that it's about 80 minutes long.  Which is good, because I could not take much more.  This is just insulting - period.

No Good Deed.  This deed  - is no good.