An unstable escaped convict terrorizes a woman who is alone with her two children.
There’s no good reason to bother with this punishing by-the-numbers thriller.
No Good Deed eventually spits out an interesting twist, but by then it's too late to rescue this overheated pile of left-overs. Elba deserves more starring vehicles, but his choice this time around is simply no good at all.
Elba's reunites with Luther director Sam Miller to lesser effect in a workaday home-invasion thriller.
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.
This clunkingly terrible film is a baffling career move for Elba, and a waste of co-star Taraji P Henson.
Idris Elba’s star power isn’t enough to save this thriller that deserves to go straight to DVD.
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