Good People
Tom Wright and his wife Anna, a couple living in London discover £220,000 in the apartment of dead neighbor. Taking the money to renovate their house, the couple soon becomes the target of both the owner of the money and the thief who stole it.
28 October 1972, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
12 July 1976, Rochdale, Lancashire, England, UK
19 April 1979, Los Angeles, California, USA
1 January 1977, Southwark, London, England, UK
19 April 1978, Palo Alto, California, USA
5 February 1948, Wharfedale, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK
20 January 1978, Trappes, Yvelines, France
16 December 1980, Hull, Humberside, England, UK
7 June 1969, Dublin, Ireland
August 21, 2015
This involving set-up soon gives way to tired gangster clichés, culminating in a crude and over-the- top bloodbath.
September 26, 2014
Good People provides the degree of entertainment one expects while sitting on a sofa watching a direct-to-video effort rather than the higher standards one sets for paying $10 for a movie ticket.
September 25, 2014
Good People grinds to its predictable, pat conclusion and betrays its generally solid performances and respectable artistic pedigree. Sometimes good people do bad things, sometimes they just make movies that start well and end badly.
August 21, 2015
The filmmakers use slick editing and pounding music in a desperate bid to paper over the cracks in their own storyline.
August 23, 2015
This low-rent crime thriller's London setting never feels convincing... and the film's action-packed climax, which sees the couple fending off the bad 'uns using power tools, is even more far-fetched.
August 17, 2015
A fairly standard white-people-in-peril thriller.
September 26, 2014
"Good People" goes from being simply pedestrian to outright preposterous without batting an eye.
August 23, 2015
This increasingly ramshackle thriller somehow manages to bodge many of its key plot points, leaving the narrative as badly maintained as the rundown houses it occupies.
September 26, 2014
James Franco and Kate Hudson are uncharacteristically muted in this watchable but wholly unsurprising London crime caper.
August 20, 2015
There is little inspiration to be found and the end product is serviceable at best.
September 26, 2014
It's engaging enough while one is watching it, but not distinctive enough to make it special, or, in this case, enthusiastically recommendable.
