Bad Samaritan is a very interesting title. How can a samaritan be bad? Well this show says it all.
2 Thieves stumbled upon a very rich psychopath's home and found out dark chilling secrets about this psychopath. 1 of the
thieves did what a samaritan should do, going all out to save the live he felt he had to save, putting his own life into danger.
The show first set in a very beautiful typical European scene (Scotland i think?), kinda puts you into the life of the main actor. A poor artist, having a pretty girlfriend,
and doing "sideline". Working as a "valet" at night with his best buddy. The pace of the show was good, showing at least 1 failed attempt of their "sideline", before the encountering
the psychopath. No rush of pace at all.
It also slowly puts the show into mystery and suspense, as they move into the psychopath's life. Audience will start to wonder, what kind of pscyhopath he is, how strong
would he be, etc. What i like about this psychopath is, unlike some other psychopath's show where the psychopath seems to have extraordinary power. The psychopath in Bad Samaritan is
just a very normal person, and does no miracles, which makes the show really realistic; like something that can happen in our lives.
However he is very very rich, and some what intelligent. Of course he has a really disturbed mind.
I have always enjoyed such realistic psychopath show, always rooting for the victim to be able to escape successfully. And this show makes it unique that the person you will root for
is a "bad" person in a way; a thief. Everything about this show is good, it reminds me of shows like Stepdad...where the guy is so smart in covering his tracks.
Probably the little downside about the show is that the ending came about a little mistake made by the psychopath, which is so totally unusual of him to make such mistake, causing his fall.
Also if they could spend more time in sharing his past, to know more why he became like that. THey had only a short 3-5 mins chat about it, which isnt really clear enough.
All in all, definitely a good show to catch for ppl who loves psychopath shows. A few scare scenes only, couple of disturbing scenes as well, otherwise its more of suspense then horror in anyways.
Cheers!
From your friendly neighbourhood, Movie Reviewer
Del
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