Bad Samaritan and all the images you see in this review are owned by Electric Entertainment
Directed by Dean Devlin
Admitedly this took a bit longer than I was expecting, but I guess there’s no escape from the gaping maw of Hollywood whenever an actor gives a surprisingly unique and interesting performance. Like Schwarzenegger, Christopher Lee, Samuel L Jackson, and many others, David Tennant is on his way to being typecast as a creepy mo-fo after his star turning performance as The Purple Man in Jessica Jones. Yes he was already famous to a lot of us after he did Doctor Who, but I’m willing to bet that Jessica Jones put his face in front of more people than all three seasons he did of that show combined. Now he’s cashing in on that new reputation with this latest thriller by… the guy who did Geostorm? SERIOUSLY!? Okay… well is this going to be a fun exploration of yet another off-kilter David Tennant role, or are you better off watching that awful animated Doctor Who special where he goes to Roswell? Ugh… I still have nightmares about the character designs in that. Anyway, LET’S FIND OUT!!
The movie follows Sean (Robert Sheehan) who’s a run of the mill THIEF WITH A HEART OF GOLDTM who runs a clever little scam with his buddie Derek (Carlito Olivero) where they work as valets but rob their customers’ homes while they’re eating if they live close enough. The hauls may be pretty small as they only steal odds and ends, but it manages to keep them safe and out of crappy nine to five jobs. Sean’s an ARTIST after all and can’t compromise his integrity by taking pictures for CORPORATIONS and getting PAID A SALARY to do it! He’s got better plans; or at least he DID until he went into the wrong house. While rich asshole Cale (David Tennant) is enjoying a nice meal, Sean breaks into his house and finds a veritable cavalcade of loot but also finds a woman named Katie (Kerry Condon) strapped to a chair and with bruises all over her body. Not only that, but Cale seems to have cameras all over the house including one pointed directly at the girl so instead of trying to free her and risk getting caught, Sean just bolts and makes an anonymous tip to the cops. What Sean doesn’t realize is that Cale is not just a murderer, but is also a CLEVER one and above all VERY rich, so it doesn’t take long for him to piece together who it is that’s onto him and start enacting revenge against the starving artist. Honestly though, he doesn’t even need to bother because Sean is already beating himself up constantly over failing to save the girl and even tries to turn himself in to try and get the cops to listen, but to no avail. So Sean’s distracted by his own sense of misery while Cale is making things worse by ruining his life and even ruining the lives of those around him. Will Sean find a way to save Katie before Cale finally grows bored and stabs her in the face? What else does Cale have up his sleeve to keep Sean occupied, and it could it lead to even MORE murder? Who the heck thought that making David Tennant play The Master was a good idea!?
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