Review of The Resident (2011) by Sharon M — 20 Aug 2011

The change in perspective is sudden, but it clicks smoothly with the rest of the picture, assuming a different stance of menace, moving the film away from an overt horror routine to something lurid, capably executed by the filmmaker. There's little doubt, however, that the film's tenuously engaging atmosphere reaches its breaking point with the laughably conventional cat-and-mouse finale, with the eye-rolling silliness of this portion - eg the villain suddenly pops up after he's seemingly been killed - ensuring that The Resident concludes on as underwhelming a note as one could possibly envision. The end result is an uneven yet watchable bit of trashy filmmaking, with Swank's mere presence here nothing less than an epic head-scratcher.

VERDICT: "Matinée" - (Mixed reaction). These kinds of movies are usually movies that had some good things, but some bad things kept it from being amazing. This rating says to pay matinée prices to see at a theatre, buy an ex-rental or a cheap price of the DVD to own.