Terri Granger is looking forward to a girls night in with her friend and neighbor while her husband is away on a golf trip with his father. Wine and good times will flow after she's put her two children to bed. Unfortunately, a violent, sadistic escaped prisoner, Colin Evans, has crashed his escape vehicle just up the road from her house. Seeing the polite, hansom, bleeding stranger on her doorstep she lends him her phone...then offers him shelter from the downpour...then dry clothes... And then she finally begins to understand that no good deed goes unpunished.
2014 was a year of feminism in Hollywood. Movies like Maleficent, Tammy, Lucy, and now No Good Deed. I personally am happy that there are strong female characters being represented in cinema... or should I say I am happy that they are trying. Maleficent was essentially only mad because of something an old boyfriend did. Lucy was made smart by shear happenstance after trusting a boy she barely knew (and Lucy was just straight up terrible without that), and now we have Terri Granger... I found it hard to sympathize with a character who invites a stranger into her house when she is alone with only her young children. Even if I could the whole movie was tired cliche, after tired cliche, after stupid decision, after ridiculous coincidence, after Deus ex machina, after absurd conclusion. If the rest of the movie would have been like the first 5 or 10 minutes it would have been pretty decent (I actually imagine an alternate universe where this movie documents Terri Granger [who literally worked at profiling men just like Colin] tracking down the psychotic Colin across the nation... kind of a-la-Silence of the Lambs) but unfortunately the movie runs of the track right about the time Idris Elba runs off the road. You may think it's a good deed, buying a ticket for this one but trust me, the punishment of watching it is not worth it. F....-
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