Interesting movie. It plays out "racism" a bit differently, with Turner (Samuel Jackson) being the racist bigot and Mattson (Patrick Wilson) being the victim. The movie builds up the racial tension so patiently, cautiously. There are moments of thrill when you'll be worrying if the yelling and name-calling would turn violent--and turns out it's cleverly tuned down to a humane, civil negotiation. The conflict is played nicely like this sort of tension is highly probable to happen in our backyard. That interesting build up, unfortunately, is resolved with a cartoon-ish, (un)expectedly boring in the ending, making all the tension feels useless and crashed all the way down.

Whew, Samuel sure knows how to ace the art of awkward tension. Talk about feeling uncomfortable 90% of the film. I wish I could just have an entire movie just of Chris and Lisa's lives together - they were _too_ cute. Patrick Wilson can fuck me sideways.

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Painful to watch in 2026. This movie didn't get old well. Samuel, why on Earth did you agree to take this role ?

"Is that a 'We Are the World' 'fuck you'?" I have never seen Lakeview Terrace before but what I remember about this movie is the dvd cover and how many times I had it in my hands when the Freerecord Shop was still around over here in the Netherlands but somehow I never bought it. So whilst scrolling through Netflix today I came across it and I suddenly had the urge to finally watch it. Samuel L. Jackson is his usual entertaining self here but he's the guy you have to hate because he's the racist neighbor who tries to scare away his new neighbors, a interracial couple played by Patrick Wilson and Kerry Washington. He's also a cop and knows how to intimidate someone. And even though he's entertaining he's annoying too. Which is good in this one because we have to side with the Mattsons. We get some great tension build up and it all explodes at the end. You get the ending you want and in the end Lakeview Terrace is an entertaining thriller with Samuel L. Jackson in the middle of it being an asshole.