Lakeview Terrace by the DVD Man

I thought that Lakeview Terrace, starring the inimitable Samuel L. Jackson, was going to be on the level of Pacific Heights with Michael Keaton or Unlawful Entry with Ray Liotta, so when it wasn't up to that level of realistic scariness, I was disappointed. Those two examples are movies that actually scared me because they had situations that could actually happen in real life as opposed to weird ass horror movies that aren't scary at all.

Samuel L. Jackson is just too tempered in this movie. Where was his famous big speech? Where was the tension? Why did they have the slowest moving, most obvious plot point in the history of movie making, a giant SoCal wildfire, taking it's sweet time? Why was the so-called hero smoking clove cigarettes and driving a Prius? Why was there a gratuitous white hip hopper? Who wrote this movie?

Zero Franks, chickens, etc. I give this movie a C-...