An early scene in which strangles his ex-girlfriend, then batters her corpse in unwaning anger, borders on sickening. He’s a stereotype of the brutally misogynistic black man, a fact that makes both the character and the physical aggression on screen difficult to watch. (He’s so vain, he probably thinks this film is about him.)Īlso read: ‘Dolphin Tale 2’ Should Dunk ‘No Good Deed’ and ‘Guardians’ at Box Office This WeekendĬolin’s quickness to violence renders him a problematic character. Its wicked villain is serial killer Colin Evans ( Idris Elba), a narcissistic neo-Othello with a vicious need to control every woman around him and an automatic disinterest in any conversation that tries to pass the Bechdel test, since they’re not about him. “No Good Deed” is a film distrustful of men, and for good reason. Press screenings for the film were canceled at the eleventh hour citing concerns that critics might spoil a major plot twist, but it’s hard not to wonder whether it was the parallels between the thriller and the recently emerged Ray Rice video that made Sony fearful of early reviews. Like this summer’s “Let’s Be Cops” and 2012’s “The Watch,” two high-concept comedies that lost their allure after Ferguson and the killing of Trayvon Martin by neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman, respectively, the home-invasion thriller “No Good Deed” arrives at an inopportune time.
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