Bad Samaritan - August 14, 2018

[B-52 Bass]

A Blind Buy and I must say it was pretty good. It got right to point in like 15mins. It was a Robbery, Kidnapping, Computer Hacking and Torture all in one movie. And put together well

PQ - Is very good, just a very clean looking film.

AQ - Nice with very deep Bass. Especially, when the Maserati comes up. You hear the rumbling of the motor from afar and gets heavier, deeper and louder as it gets closer. It feels like the car pull up right behind you

Good Thriller for a chilling weekend of movie watching. So, Please give it a chance

[xander]

As a big fan of the Tenth Doctor, I feel compelled to see this. Thanks for the reminder!

[B-52 Bass]

Your welcome, Dude.

[horroru]

Originally Posted by B-52 Bass

A Blind Buy and I must say it was pretty good. It got right to point in like 15mins. It was a Robbery, Kidnapping, Computer Hacking and Torture all in one movie. And put together well

PQ - Is very good, just a very clean looking film.

AQ - Nice with very deep Bass. Especially, when the Maserati comes up. You hear the rumbling of the motor from afar and gets heavier, deeper and louder as it gets closer. It feels like the car pull up right behind you

Good Thriller for a chilling weekend of movie watching. So, Please give it a chance

Nice quick review, it was a blind buy for me and I enjoyed it as well!
A must for any Tennant fans.

[The Great Owl]

I did not realize that Bad Samaritan was out on Blu-ray already. It's a nifty little movie.

Here's my movie content review that I wrote after my theatrical viewing a few months back...

Sean and Derek, played respectively by Robert Sheehan and Carlito Olivero, have a good little racket. While working as valet attendants for an upscale restaurant, they size up the customers as they park the vehicles, they use the vehicle GPS systems to locate the residences of these customers, they drive the vehicles to the homes, they burglarize the homes for small random items, and they return to the restaurant before the customers are even finished dining. Their lives take a sharp turn for the worse, however, when the smug Cale Erendreich, played by David Tennant (Doctor Who), drives up in his beautiful Maserati, sternly orders them not to be careless with the car, and then walks into the restaurant. Sean takes the Maserati to Cale's lavishly immaculate home and breaks in, only to discover a terrified captive woman, who has been gagged and chained to a chair, and a downstairs room that is full of grisly torture devices.

Despite his shady choice of a side career, Sean still possesses a moral compass, and he quickly decides to redeem himself by attempting the rescue the imprisoned damsel in distress. Unfortunately, the sociopathic Cale is an independently wealthy serial killer who is one step ahead, and he will stop at nothing to destroy Sean's life by wreaking havoc on his partner in crime, his family, and his girlfriend. The ensuing cat and mouse game escalates by way of manipulation, violence, and shocking bloodshed.

Bad Samaritan, the new film from director Dean Devlin, who helmed last year's so-bad-that-it's-good disaster movie, Geostorm, is a flawed, but enjoyable thriller that rides on high on the wave of Tennant's ability to portray his chillingly villainous character with the utmost exuberance and Sheehan's knack for conveying overwhelmed helplessness and surprising resourcefulness alike. Kerry Condon, as the female captive, is also a welcome presence. The script's many plot holes are impossible to ignore altogether, but, thanks to the commitment of the cast, these logical oversights are reduced to mere speed bumps on an otherwise wild and intense ride.

Bad Samaritan particularly reverberates with me right now, because, a week ago, I was the victim of identity theft, and I had over two thousand dollars stolen from my bank account. As such, I am especially cognizant of the effective ways that this horror tale showcases the dangers of technology. We see the unlikely valet driver protagonists using GPS to locate the homes of their targets, we see them use phones to activate credit cards that they find in the mail at these homes, we see Tennant's Cale uncover Sean's computer passwords so that he can send a nude photo of Sean's girlfriend to all of her college classmates, and we watch the ease with which Cale is able to change his online records at the drop of a hat. As such, this movie has my hearty recommendation. Even if you find yourself laughing at the often vapid plot developments, you will probably shudder as well while taking note of the many ways that the conveniences of our high-tech gadgets can be used by bad people to get us.

After watching this film and the recent remake of Death Wish, I don't feel so bad about my lifelong habit of parking a half mile or more away from restaurants in order to avoid valet attendants.

[Donut]

I thought the film was pretty good. Not a fan of Sheehan but he was alright in this. I was hoping the main character was gonna be Tennant because he plays it interestingly enough to where I'd rather see and know more as to why he is the way he is. He played it very clever and I liked how he anticipated everything. He wasn't a dumb cliche creepy bad guy, he was in fact a very smart calculating character.
It was an enjoyable entertaining film and thought Tennant was great and he seems to have finally nailed the American accent.

[The Great Owl]

I went to Target this afternoon to grab the new Interpol CD, and I picked this Blu-ray up as well.

The $15 price is right!

[Gacivory]

Originally Posted by The Great Owl

I went to Target this afternoon to grab the new Interpol CD, and I picked this Blu-ray up as well.

The $15 price is right!

How’s the Interpol CD?

[The Great Owl]

Originally Posted by Gacivory

How’s the Interpol CD?

It’s no Turn on the Bright Lights, but it’s pretty great. They shook up their sound a bit this time, to good result.

(Turn on the Bright Lights is still my favorite album of the new millennium. I’ve seen Interpol in concert 11 times, starting with a 2002 show in a tiny club venue that was only half full, and I’ve met the band a few of those times. Good people all around.)