Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Stoutor It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Zlatica One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

lizziechow 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.

Davis P Lakeview Terrace (2008) does have some pretty solid acting performances from Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, and Patrick Wilson. They all really carry the film and do a great job doing so. The premise is very interesting and intriguing, which is what interested me in it in the 1st place. The tension between characters is great and very real seeming. There are times towards the middle part of the film where it can seem too slow, but it does speed up a good bit towards the end. The violence isn't over the top bloody or graphic, it's well done. The movie has thrilling/suspenseful scenes that will definitely rev up your adrenaline and elevates the movie. But if you ask me, the thing that carries this film, is the actor's performances all throughout it. Great job to the cast! Because to be honest, if the performances here weren't good, this would've gotten a much lower rating than a 7/10.

GUENOT PHILIPPE That's the second time I see this very good thriller. Four years after the first one, back in 2008. I totally agree with everything the other users say about this film. Yes, yes, yes, Samuel Jackson gives here a wonderful performance. His character as a very ambivalent cop, racist - black racist !! - is absolutely unforgettable. So rare in usual foreseeable topics. It reminds me another movie I saw in 1992 - UNLAWLY ENTRY - starring Ray Liotta as a very sympathetic cop with the hero couple at the beginning of the feature, and very bad one as the story goes on...Except that there was not the racism point of view in the 92 film.The good family man, good father, rough and very effective cop, but racist at the most, and in an exceptional way of showing it.I would recommend it, even to my worst enemy, if I had one.

krlmilky The movie Lakeview Terrace is a movie about a racist Los Angeles Police Department sergeant who terrorizes his new next door neighbors because they are an interracial couple. The sergeant, Abel Turner, played by Samuel L. Jackson, is a single father of two children. Turner is particularly tough on his two children, but seems especially tough after they witness the next door neighbors, Chris (Patrick Wilson) and Lisa Mattson (Kerry Washington), having sexual relations in their pool. The theme that is presented throughout the movie is a theme of racial intolerance.The movie begins with Chris and Lisa Mattson moving into the Lakeview Terrace neighborhood as Abel's children, Marcus and Celia are on their way to school. After spying to see who his new neighbors are , Abel sees Chris and Lisa kissing, and he is disgusted. He is also disgusted at the fact that his two children witness Chris and Lisa having sexual relations in their pool. Later that evening, Abel positions his floodlights to shine into Chris and Lisa's bedroom window. They awaken in the middle of the night unhappy about the lights, and after some discussion, Chris decides he will discuss with Abel at the next opportunity. When Chris is finally able to speak with Abel about the lights, Abel maintains that the lights are part of his complex security system and won't be able to do anything. The next day, Abel shows his intolerance once again by telling Chris that no matter how much he listens to rap music, he will always be white. This scene was the first scene where Abel verbally showed he may in fact be a racist; it was also the scene where he welcomed Chris to the neighborhood. Abel also alludes to the fact of being a possible racist in the bar scene when he describes how his wife was killed. He explains that his wife was with her white boss at the time of her car accident. He goes on to explain that he didn't know why his wife would have been in the car with her white boss when she should have been at work, providing at-home care. Here, Abel is implying that his wife was unfaithful to him, which may explain why Abel does not like interracial couples.The director used the technique of wild-fire motifs in the movie to depict the toxic relationship between Turner and the Mattson's. The raging, burning wild-fires in the movie shows how toxic the relationship between the neighbors had grown from the beginning of the film. The Mattson's and Turner have a heated exchange outside after the Mattson's plant a line of trees on the boundary line between the two properties. The exchange almost leads to an altercation, but both parties are able to hold it off and go their separate ways. The director also used the technique of low-key lighting in the film – this type of lighting puts most of the set in shadow. The scene where we see low-key lighting would be when the Mattson's are awakened out of their sleep from Turner's bright floodlights. Their bedroom was dark enough and when the light shined through the windows, it cast Chris's shadow along the wall as he got out of bed to check to see what was going on with the lighting. The darkness of the low-key lighting goes with the theme of racial intolerance in that if one acts out like Turner, it can make you a pretty dark person.In conclusion, the theme of racial intolerance is ironic in this movie because a person would feel that having a police officer as a neighbor would be a good thing. In this case, it was not a good thing at all. The Mattson's felt all but safe.