Review of Lakeview Terrace (2008) by Brian R — 11 Mar 2010

Neil LaBute creates a lot of tensions and questions to the audience's mind, plus I feel this is Samuel L. Jackson's greatest performance as a bitter, ignorant, vicious cop. An Interracial couple has moved into the neighbourhood and I thought "oh great here comes another romantic goodie-goodie interaciall picture" but oh nooooooo's LaBute puts the challenge on the couple and their challenge is the bitter cop who basically want to make the new neighbours life a living satanic hell.

Lakeview Terrace makes a lot of blunt and honest questions about people date within racial genders, and LaBute is a filmmaker who always tasks risks and very good ones. I always wondered how if this film would be any different if the it were a black man/white woman couple and the bitter cop was white? Yet even when I have questions like this in mind LaBute stays in bounds with the story. This is a dark thriller and a very damn good one.