Very well executed

disgusting, overrated, pointless

an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

No Good Deed is an edge-of-the-seat suspense crime thriller! You will not be able to get up when you are watching this movie (although to be frank, there is nothing NEW in the story)!NOTE: Don't believe some stupid people who think the movie is Boring!The director, Sam Miller, has done a mature job of maintaining the aura of suspense in each and every scene. The Background Music and the slow Pace of the film, all contribute to transfixing the minds of the audience to the screen. In fact, I prefer this more than any noisy, rapidly-edited & fast-faced suspense movies.The Screenplay is Tight and Crispy!The Acting is very, very decent. But Idris Elba looks slightly friendly to be a heartless killer. Perhaps a beard, Hoodie and a wicked gaze would have done the trick.I won't say anything more for fear of giving away details of the movie (esp. a small twist towards the end). Just watch this Short, Simple and Suspense-ridden film in any movie channel of your choice.

Not that I was anticipating it but I recently decided to watch No Good Deed on cable… Yep, it does not surprise me what makes money at the domestic box office, especially these days. It is made for a modest budget and you get a sexy, shirtless Idris Elba and bam! It skyrockets to number one because you have a lot of women and perhaps some men getting excited at the sight of him…well, hopefully you get the picture. There isn't much more to this movie otherwise. He looks good here…and that's about it. In summation, he plays Colin, who is an unlikeable and uninteresting character who accidentally crashes a vehicle into a tree on one stormy night and shows up on the doorstep of Taraji P. Henson's place. If you made it this far, you can pretty much guess what happens next. I can tell perhaps whoever wrote this was trying to write a clever thriller, but it falls short. I thought the people at the parole board in the beginning were going to let him go, but even I could see the manipulation in Colin's so-called reformation. So he does escape but not in a way that I thought he would, still it isn't much of an amazement. One thing I have wondered after he murders his ex-girlfriend are the fingerprints that were basically all over that house. More to the point is the implausibility of the entire thing. I suppose they wanted to show the vulnerability of a lonely woman, but this comes across as mostly Idris Elba's show. Aside from this movie being dreadfully dull, there are several moments of unintentional laughter. Not referring to the situation itself because yes it is serious, but the over-the- top acting at times. I was cracking up and thinking, 'I don't think they meant this to be funny', but I couldn't help it. As for whatever twists there were, my waning interest was long gone. I know it had something to do with the woman's husband. Maybe she found out that he really didn't go golfing with his father? Maybe he was cheating on her? I don't know. I just didn't care. At least it's a short movie.

I thought that I was going to see a rehashing of 1956's The Desperate Hours with Fredric March, the head of a household that is terrorized by a murderer.Am sure that many were thinking how a woman who was a prosecutor would leave a stranger in her home based upon what she knew could result from prior experience.Idris Elba gets rebuked by the parole board only to escape and go on a killing spree.Elba must have been a man of steel surviving Taraji Henson's stab wound as well as lamps and other objects hurled at him. It would take 3 bullets and flying out the window to draw a climax to the situation.What about that suspicious policeman along the highway. He must have known that an escaped killer was on the loose. Instead of talking, his relative inaction would lead to his downfall.The revelation of her husband was really an unnecessary plot twist.

Yes, the plot as written by Aimee Lagos has been used many times in different variations – dangerous intruder enters house of woman and children when husband is not there to protect them – but as directed by Sam Miller and especially as acted by Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson, this variation works.Terri (Taraji P. Henson) is a lonely mother with two small children who gave up her career as a District Attorney to be a stay at home wife to her lawyer husband Jeffrey (Henry Simmons), makes small talk with her best friend Meg (Leslie Bibb) and since Jeffrey is to be out of town for his father's birthday they plan a girls' night drinking wine during a storm in Teri's home. In another place sociopathic Colin (Idris Elba), who has a narcissistic personality disorder, goes before a parole board (he has been imprisoned for 5 years), is denied parole and on his way back to prison he murders the men escorting him, wrecks their van, visits his ex- fiancée Alexis (Kate del Castillo) whom he murders in a rage, leaves and knocks on Terri's door for help. Terri invites the handsome 'car accident victim' into her home. Desperate for a little attention, she doesn't realize she's entertaining a sociopathic, yet charming escaped convict. In one terrorizing night her life completely changes as she fights for her own life and the life of her children. The plot includes secrets of infidelity, the communication between best friends that is sacred, and in general a lot of hide and seek during a blistering storm.Both Elba and Henson are in top form (physically and professionally) and this adds a flavor of that dichotomy between erotica and terror. No new ideas in this film, but it is well worth watching for the quality of the cast and the pace of the film.