No Good Deed
Devoted wife and mother of two, lives an ideal life that takes a dramatic turn when her home and children are threatened by Colin, a charming stranger who smooth-talks his way into her house, claiming car trouble. The unexpected invitation leaves her and her family terrorized and fighting for survival.
30 September 1969, London, England, UK
23 October 1972, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
27 November 1966, Tampa, Florida, USA
1 July 1970, Stamford, Connecticut, USA
11 September 1970, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
28 August 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 November 1974, Bismarck, North Dakota, USA
6 September 1972, Hackney, London, England, UK
November 23, 2014
There's a few table-turning twists that lend a veneer of final-girl sister-power ... but little else to provide big-screen distraction.
November 21, 2014
It is dismaying to see the brilliant Idris Elba and Sam Miller, his director from TV's Luther, working on low-grade exploitation fare like this.
November 21, 2014
Not content with painting Idris Elba's escaped convict Colin as a thoroughly bad sort, the suspense-free home invasion movie No Good Deed has a score that assaults us with histrionic crashes and bangs.
January 06, 2015
"No Good Deed" made some decent box office and didn't cost much to make. Perhaps there'll be a sequel. "Good Samaritan Goes Bad" or "Call Triple-A, Cause I Ain't Opening the Door."
September 12, 2014
The final plot twist is about as fiendishly clever as an episode of General Hospital. Is that a spoiler? You're welcome.
April 15, 2016
It's too pointless to be even a guilty pleasure, plunging past "low rent" into "no rent" territory, dragging two competent performers down into the mud with it.
September 12, 2014
With performers as strong as Henson and Elba, and the guidance of director Sam Miller, who's worked with Elba in a handful of Luther episodes, it should have yielded more. The trite third act reveal only further sours the wasted potential.
September 14, 2014
It's a little dumb (OK, maybe more than a little), but "No Good Deed" is an otherwise brisk, efficient thriller that won't punish audiences who drop in.
January 01, 2015
No Good Deed is one of the least inspired and laziest films of 2014, featuring a complete lack of originality and a waste of talent from Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson.
September 14, 2014
No Good Deed practically fetishizes the brutality Idris Elba's character inflicts on a number of women. It sexualizes him as a killing machine. It wants us to salivate over him and tremble before him simultaneously.
September 12, 2014
No Good Deed is an example of the worst kind of exploitative thriller.
September 17, 2014
There should be something more exhilarating about the violent and hopeful epilogue finale than there is.
