At another, Charlie’s wandering eye is telegraphed when Annie’s back is turned, he turns his head, and we get a close-up of Annie’s butt. At one point at dinner, Charlie fantasizes about crushing Mike’s skull with a wine bottle. ![]() Oh no, there’s a best friend who figures out the psycho’s game early! That never goes well.ĭirector Deon Taylor ( Meet the Blacks) seems to go out of his way to bring even the slowest audience member up to speed a full lap ahead of the characters. This is where I’d call the police, or at least the mental health authorities.īut Annie has a soft spot for the lonely old widower, and even invites him to Thanksgiving dinner with Mike and Rachel ( Joseph Sikora and Alvina August), their best friends from the city. But Annie must have her way, and soon they’re moved in, stripping wallpaper, with Charlie ostensibly on his way to Florida.Įxcept he’s there the next day, mowing the lawn and disapproving of all the changes. Later, Scott’s ready to leave when he hears the price. He’s dubious about Annie’s dream house, dreading the commute, and Charlie ( Dennis Quaid, the tightly-wound, grinning guy selling them the place, introduces himself by firing a shot-gun practically past their ears to kill a deer that’s been eating his lovingly grown foliage. For past domestic reasons that are explained later, she’s intent on them moving out into the country to start a family. In The Intruder, Meagan Good and Michael Ealy are Annie and Scott, San Francisco professionals (well, she’s a freelancer and he’s a fast-rising ad exec, so he’s the effective bread winner). Given that this is a feature, it is mandatory that the non-psycho central characters take at least an hour to piece it all together – a recipe for frequent eye-rolling and face-palms. The Intruder is the sort of thriller where the audience is in on pretty much everything from the beginning, and spends the rest of the movie waiting for the dolts onscreen to catch up. ![]() Actually, we’re told too much, which is the movie’s main problem.
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