Bad Samaritan

A thriller about a thief who breaks into the wrong house. Sean works as a valet at a restaurant. He and his friend have a system: while a customer is eating they find his address, drive to the house and take something worth having. One evening an expensive car arrives. Sean goes to the man's house and finds a woman inside: bound, starved and held there for weeks. He panics and leaves without freeing her. He goes to the police; nobody believes him, because he entered the house illegally and there is no trace left in it. What follows is a chase in reverse: the man finds out who Sean is and comes after him. His resources are wide and he takes Sean's life apart digitally. What the film is interested in is not being believed: the one person telling the truth cannot speak because of his own crime. Robert Sheehan plays Sean and David Tennant the man. Tennant's performance is what the film is most discussed for. Kerry Condon is in the cast. Dean Devlin directed. A well-built example within its genre for anyone who likes thrillers. For a viewer looking for realism, the plot leans on convenience in the last section.