With so many lengthy reviews already written, it's hard to add anything new. Like many, I thought this deserved more stars than the average number it has received. A.T's suspicions of his wife's infidelity with a white man makes the movie's story-line plausible. It's easy to understand his motivations, even as I wished the cinematography could be a little bit more sympathetic towards his story (to give the story more depth). While the film got us riled up against an "old man"/"conservative" who couldn't and wouldn't accept an interracial marriage, a closer viewing brings into perspective the class disparity between the two families on Lakeview Terrace. A.T doesn't have a pool, but the interracial couple does. It is also the backdrop of many turning points in the film. I watched this on HBOHD many years (almost 10 years) after it was released, and was struck by how little human nature has remained constant in comparison to the changes in technology (a flip phone). The psychology exhibited in this thriller is even more relevant today, and I feel it is what makes this a movie worth watching.

LAKEVIEW TERRACE REVIEWWhile I can see the filmmakers were trying to make a reverse-expectation movie in terms of black oppressors and white dynamics. On one level this film is just a run-of -he mill stalker picture that II could take or leave. But for me a if was more problematic than this. This just isn't an off the shelf stalker movie, but the use of this social context need much better writers. This subject matter could be a brilliant movie; there is so much potential depth. But but instead in seem to have no greater goal than to make more. Some many elements seem poorly crafted. Even strong actors like like Samuel Jackson could save the film. His performance was so cliché it seemed like he had little to work with, a film with forced and predictable dialogue and interaction.

The movie opens so very slowly despite the normal speed of its entire pace. The story didn't really build that well for the first half part of its duration. I didn't even quite get what the movie was aiming to promote as its main theme or conflict until about half an hour into it. Then it all make sense although it's still unclear about the background and reasoning behind the behavior of the Able Turner character.At least it gets better, although in a weird sense. It's because Turner suddenly tells everything and spills out all the missing details, in a bar chat. Samuel L. Jackson acted out nicely in portraying the hostile cop, despite the lack of clarity from the screenplay's part. Patrick Wilson did just okay in balancing for the movie.

Lakeview Terrace is a very poor movie with a dull storyline and an overall uninspired cast.Samuel L. Jackson does a great job and will always be an outstanding actor,but he still wasn't enough to make this movie decent,the only scenes that I really liked were when we got to see his character working for the LAPD,which we saw very little of.Kerry Washington did the best she could with the character she was given,sadly it was a boring character that lacked any interesting personality traits,but I found Patrick Wilson's character very annoying,he wouldn't stick up to Jackson's character and couldn't defend his own household and I found the character unlikeable.Lakeview Terrace is a really slow and mediocre movie that I think people would be better off avoiding.A racist veteran LAPD cop starts a violent campaign of intimidation and harassment against his new neighbours because of their interracial relationship. Best Performance: Samuel L. Jackson Worst Performance: Patrick Wilson