Laura Peterson is home alone when a stranger shows up at her door. He claims to be David Collins (Dan Stevens), an Army friend of her late son Caleb who died in Afghanistan. She invites him into her home. Soon, his outrageous ways start influencing the various family members.
I really like Dan Stevens as the crazy guest in a psychological thriller. The incident with the football team at the bar is perfect. I'm rolling with a slow descend into a dysfunctional family chaos. Instead, the movie adds an outside military story. I am less impressed with turning this into a shoot them up. By doing that, David's interesting psychological disturbance becomes an experiment gone wrong. In some ways, it's less scary. This is good but it could have been great.
I really like Dan Stevens as the crazy guest in a psychological thriller. The incident with the football team at the bar is perfect. I'm rolling with a slow descend into a dysfunctional family chaos. Instead, the movie adds an outside military story. I am less impressed with turning this into a shoot them up. By doing that, David's interesting psychological disturbance becomes an experiment gone wrong. In some ways, it's less scary. This is good but it could have been great.