Movie- Lakeview Terrace

Lakeview Terrace (2008) is one of those movies that you enjoy when you watch it, but after you are done you wonder why you enjoyed it...like eating empty calories.

Starring Samuel L. Jackson, the movie provides some tension and thrills, but most of it comes from the menacing glower of Jackson, who plays Abel Turner, a LAPD cop who does not like the inter-racial young couple that moved in next door in his suburban neighborhood.

Turner makes it clear first to the white husband that he doesn't think he should be in the neighborhood, and then to the black wife (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington). He becomes more and more threatening and harassing and things start getting really hairy for the couple. All the while Jackson provides more glare and menacing grins. And they can't do a thing about it because he is a cop.

Now all this makes for some OK entertainment, but you have to suspend a LOT of believe to watch it, and this is what gets to you after. Like eating junk food, you really wonder what you were thinking at the time, and you hope that the richness or grease does not give you acid reflux.