I Came By (2022)

The only exciting part of this movie comes early on. A young man breaks into a well-off person's home for mischief and discovers a hostage being held there. But reporting the abductor is a problem since the hostage was discovered by a criminal. Too bad this intriguing set-up was previously used in the superior (but still not great) "Bad Samaritan."

The rest of the movie is like a brand new coloring book. It's all outlines with nothing colored in. Time flows by in month-long chunks, and people's storylines just end without comment so we're unsure whether they're dead or what. There seems to have been an attempt at back story with the delinquent and his mother (he's cruel and bitter while she's a widowed psychiatrist), but -- again -- no details to get us invested.

If this type of story is your jam, don't bother with this one because you'll be disappointed. I think you'll at least be less disappointed by Bad Samaritan. Not only does it do a better job of pulling us into the lives, but David Tennant's just a cooler villain than Hugh Bonneville.

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