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BROTHERLY LOVE Patrick Wilson and Samuel L. Jackson are neighbors in the thriller Lakeview Terrace
Chuck Zlotnick
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Release Date: Sep 19, 2008; Rated: PG-13; Length: 106 Minutes; Genres: Drama, Thriller; With: Samuel L. Jackson and Kerry Washington

In Lakeview Terrace, a chain-
yanking home-invasion thriller, Samuel L. Jackson operates in two familiar modes: eyeballs-popping and eyelids-narrowing. As Abel, a testy L.A. cop living in an upscale cul-de-sac with two new next-door neighbors he hates (Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington), Jackson spends most of the film peeping over their fence or reacting to 
 perceived slights. Although his eyes once again act the bejesus out of the script, the shtick has gotten old: It's like watching dusty, less perfect retakes of his Ezekiel 25:17 speech from Pulp Fiction. Unfortunately, Jackson is the best thing here.
 The rest of Lakeview is cravenly engineered to make Wilson's squishy liberal hero a man, and the only surprise is that Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men) directed it for hire. This time, there's no art to his manipulations of the plot. C-

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Posted Sep 16, 2008
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