Lakeview Terrace
Lakeview Terrace is the name of a suburban Californian cul-de-sac where Chris (Patrick Wilson) and Lisa (Kerry Washington) Mattson, a young inter racial Chicago couple become first time buyers. Abel Turner ( Samuel L. Jackson) is the guy next door who happens to be one of LAPD’s finest. To his fellow cops he’s a father figure, to the rest of the neighbourhood he’s a guardian angel but Chris and Lisa have the displeasure of getting to know the man that his children have to endure – a mean, racist manipulator. As the California fire season escalates so does the friction over the back yard fence and both seem headed out of control. Lakeview Terrace doesn’t really live up to its promise – there’s no lake, no view and no terrace but that’s the only thing about this film that isn’t predictable. However it’s salvaged via the creepy tension that builds thanks to Jackson’s menacing portrayal Abel Turner. Kudos as well to the writers who judging from the trailers could have gone the easy route and delivering yet another revenge flick but didn’t.