Produced by Will Smith, "Lakeview Terrace" stars Samuel L. Jackson as an em bittered widower, LAPD sergeant and father of two, who has a hard time accepting his new neighbors, Patrick Wilson and Carrie Washington.
Slowly, inexorably, the animosity between these residents of suburban Los Angeles grows, along with the intense brush fires which are approaching.
Jackson knows how to play a villain as well as a hero and here his character has issues, is complex, has a back-story we learn and is thus all the more terrifying.
In one scene, his daughter has come by for a visit and the stern father's parenting skills leave a lot to be desired.
Movie critic Jeffrey Lyons said, Lakeview Terrace" has three fine performances all right. But the story grows more sinister as it moves along and with it credulity is strained, then jettisoned. It does make for a compelling thriller, but you can see the way it'll end a long way off.
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