A waste of 90 minutes of my life

There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Blistering performances.

I've watched a small number of worse movies than this one. Its ridiculous twist finally drains it's rapidly ebbing energy. There are a number of almost tense scenes and glimpses of good acting. These are book ended by some extremely fun filled moments of unintended hilarity. I haven't seen so many clichés stuffed into 90 minutes in quite a while. It's like watching jaws 5. The two main actors do their best but I sense their mounting desperation is a reaction to their dawning realisation the movie is a giant turkey. I did watch it all though!

Aimee Lagos is the writer and director of this film. A woman. I am so ready for more women directors and writers in this world, however, this was SO annoying and disappointing.The beginning was typical of many other criminal movies. Main bad guy is handcuffed in front, not his hands in back or with a chain to his feet, despite being VERY violent with multiple murders under his belt. He is an extremely violent prisoner, yet, because of his magical narcissism, everyone just fell under his well spoken spell. Then of course, he kills the guards in the van and escapes. Typical actions follow, until his car crashes and he comes to the house he was heading for. THIS IS WHEN IT GETS ANNOYING!!!!!He knocks on a woman's door. She has small children. She is supposedly an ex prosecutor for the DA, focus in homicide/domestic abuse. Seriously. She LETS HIM IN. INTO HER HOME. A stranger. If this isn't STUPID ENOUGH, she proceeds to talk about her life and job as if she is talking to a life long friend. A total stranger..."come on in, I have small children, but I am going to trust you, because you are charming and handsome."What????? I know NO WOMAN out of hundreds who would do this. NONE. She allows him free reign in her home. With a small daughter running around and then in bed....despite him being a TOTAL STRANGER. Who does this? And if there are women reading this who would have let him in, DON'T DO IT, IT IS STUPID. NO ONE unless they are STUPID. Yet, she is an attorney....specializing in HOMICIDE IN CASES OF DOMESTIC ABUSE. Where the con artist ex spouses are as she puts it, aren't smart. If she had been in the DA'S office as a prosecutor, how was she totally unfamiliar with this Colin guy? No, you can't keep up with all the bad guys in the county, but he had killed multiple people, usually to do with WOMEN. So, then, her slutty realtor friend comes over, who almost instantly comes on to the stranger. WHO DOES THAT?????? At their age too? These aren't 18 yr. old young party girls. The friend proceeds to tell this stranger she would rather sleep around than get married, that it isn't her style to settle down. What? Within the first few minutes of meeting him. Again, a STUPID thing to do.My problem is that these women are stupid and don't really fit into what I would think most women would be like. I don't open the door to strangers and in NO WAY would I let one in, ESPECIALLY if I had small children in the house. You freaking call 911 if you are worried for the person at the door....and DON'T OPEN IT. I am so disappointed that the writer/director chose to write this crap. Yes, crap. I love movies, and my first thought was that a man who didn't like women, had written this, sorry, not trying to be mean, but when I saw a woman had...was just disgusted. Maybe Aimee Lagos thinks that once a woman has a baby and moves to the suburbs she forgets herself and becomes stupid? Or that women, other than herself are walking around asking to be victims? I hope the next film she writes is not so trite and predictable. And, that she actually writes about strong women, who in no way would have done the stupid things these characters did, no matter how charming and handsome the bad guys are. I gave it a 2 only for the actors, they were fine. I couldn't go higher because of the writing.

Idris Elba has "it" and by that I mean that charisma that shines through your screen. He's really able to captivate you and even when he's not the best of characters you still root for him (only to a certain degree of course, one he passes a line there's no coming back). Though he's still a charmer, he can't help it.This one is very straight forward, though there is an extra layer it all. It doesn't really matter that much though, because some things, while resolved do not feel handled the right way. The no good deed goes unpunished is something all of us will experience at one point in our lives, though normally not to that extreme as in this movie. Decent enough thriller, nothing more, nothing less

Yes, the plot as written by Aimee Lagos has been used many times in different variations – dangerous intruder enters house of woman and children when husband is not there to protect them – but as directed by Sam Miller and especially as acted by Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, this variation works.Terri (Taraji P. Henson) is a lonely mother with two small children who gave up her career as a District Attorney to be a stay at home wife to her lawyer husband Jeffrey (Henry Simmons), makes small talk with her best friend Meg (Leslie Bibb) and since Jeffrey is to be out of town for his father's birthday they plan a girls' night drinking wine during a storm in Teri's home. In another place sociopathic Colin (Idris Elba), who has a narcissistic personality disorder, goes before a parole board (he has been imprisoned for 5 years), is denied parole and on his way back to prison he murders the men escorting him, wrecks their van, visits his ex- fiancée Alexis (Kate del Castillo) whom he murders in a rage, leaves and knocks on Terri's door for help. Terri invites the handsome 'car accident victim' into her home. Desperate for a little attention, she doesn't realize she's entertaining a sociopathic, yet charming escaped convict. In one terrorizing night her life completely changes as she fights for her own life and the life of her children. The plot includes secrets of infidelity, the communication between best friends that is sacred, and in general a lot of hide and seek during a blistering storm.Both Elba and Henson are in top form (physically and professionally) and this adds a flavor of that dichotomy between erotica and terror. No new ideas in this film, but it is well worth watching for the quality of the cast and the pace of the film.