The background music far too loud to hear the mumbled dialogue in many scenes. Plus the background music is horrible, often vibrating in my head completely distracting me from the dialogue. The plot is disjointed and barely believable, yet predicable. The grift twists were not believable, in fact the grift itself was too simple to be realistic. Too many scenes are in the dark or weird yellow light. The 'surgeon' must been absolutely brilliant to work in the dim yellow light of his room. It's very hard to say more about this movie as it was pretty much a yawning waste of ninety minutes. Samuel L Jackson is an excellent actor, I'm a fan but I'm surprised he made this movie. The English actor/master criminal Tom Wilkinson wasn't believable, he looked more like a merchant banker. Very disappointing.

This movie tries to remake the movie that serves you one of the all time greatest and most shocking plot twists ever, Oldboy (2003), although I personally like the 2013 US remake as the better version of it. Yet it went way than a bit too far. The movie has so many characters, leaving most of them severely under developed. Seeing how the title sounded, I was surprised how the main twist, presented quite prematurely, was then developed into a literally turn down of a climactic ending. This movie tries to show you some kind of alternate ending to the original movie, yet it fails, and quite miserably I'd say. Having Samuel L. Jackson is a great job as his acting kept the vibe of the movie enduring throughout the entire movie. Luke Kirby lacks so much in portraying the sleazy antagonist.

Normally I would just skip over movies I've never heard of and that haven't been in theatres before. But this one caught my eye, but not because it stars Samuel L. Jackson. Over the month of November and December I got caught up in a TV series on Netflix called 'Leverage' which was about a group of con artists who helped everyday people with problems that couldn't be resolved using the usual means. When I read the synopsis for this movie it sounded very similar to that TV show so I gave it a try. That's where the similarities end though. This movie stars Samuel L. Jackson as a grifter who's spent the last 25 years of his life in jail for killing his partner in a grift that went wrong. After his release he tries to find old acquaintances only to learn they've either passed away or want nothing to do with that life. He does try to find meaningful employment, but like most ex cons has a hard time. Then he meets the adult son of the partner her killed 25 years ago who offers him an opportunity to make a final big score worth $8 million. Without giving away some big plot twists, at first he's resistant to go back to his old ways, but after some unforeseen circumstances he agrees to doing the grift. Samuel L. Jackson's acting is fantastic as are all the supporting cast of fairly unknowns. Tom Wilkinson plays a small part as the mark of the grift but the rest of the cast is unknown to me. If you're looking for a suspenseful movie with lots of intrigue this is the movie for you.

The Samaritan was surprisingly good in the sense that it had a pretty well drawn out story line and that the characters all seemed to make sense. There were quite a few twists and turns in the movie that seemed to drastically change the story - in a good way. The one huge plot twist was very big, but you can possibly see it from close to the beginning if you really pay attention to the details. I rated this movie a 7/10 because I feel as if Samuel L. Jackson could have done a bit better, but the female role was done extremely well. I would give her a 10/10 for this movie. As I said, this movie was actually a lot better than I had expected it to be.