Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
A thief makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are no longer how he expected.
Bad Samaritan is a reasonably entertaining thriller with a solid central hook — a burglar discovering a captive woman and being unable to convince anyone — that generates genuine tension. The plot has some clever turns early on but unravels in the third act with increasingly implausible developments and a conventional serial-killer showdown. David Tennant commits hard to his scenery-chewing villain, elevating what could have been a stock antagonist, while Robert Sheehan is likable if unremarkable as the protagonist. The cinematography is functional and workmanlike, nothing visually distinctive. The concept has some freshness — framing a thief as the reluctant hero while the villain uses digital stalking tools — but it doesn't fully exploit its premise. The ending is underwhelming and predictable, deflating much of the tension built up earlier.