Review of Lakeview Terrace (2008) by Rod S — 11 Feb 2010
OMG...this is an awesome movie. 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 interracial picture" but oh nooooooo's the filmmaker's 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 dating interracial but LaBute doesn't make his film all preachy but 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.
This review of Lakeview Terrace (2008) was written by Rod S on 11 Feb 2010.
Lakeview Terrace has generally received mixed reviews.
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