Michael O'Keefe This is a psychological thriller that cries for mercy. John Felton(Luke Wilson)is an unhappy man experiencing a day that can only get worse. John's birthday finds him losing his real estate job, his home edging into foreclosure, and his wife Joanie(Leslie Bibb)wanting a divorce. Although usually generous and sympathetic, Mr. Felton has every right to feel depressed and kick every dog in the neighborhood if need be. Joanie leaves taking the kids for a walk, when a strange well dressed man comes to the door asking for help. John offers assistance and is sucked into a nightmarish killing spree. The stranger is named Richie, but you swear he is the devil himself. John is accidentally injured trying to get a car started, little knowing he'll be riding shotgun with a lunatic with a head full of violence. John will end up being forced to make decisions what foul acts would he be willing to commit to save his wife and family. Dark, suspenseful, violent and just scary enough to make MEETING EVIL fun to watch. No doubt about it...Richie is one bad man! Also in the cast: Muse Watson, Peyton List, Jason Alan Smith, Tina Parker and Tracie Thoms.

Rich Wright The concept of an everyday man befriending a nutcase who proceeds to create chaos all around them, thus implicating the innocent bystander too is not an uncommon one: other examples of this plot include Piggy and Bad Influence. Or for a more lighthearted take, try Something Wild. And it's a well known fact that 1 movie in 5 these days features Samuel L Jackson, so we were bound to cross paths on my Random DVD Pilgrimage. I'm still looking for sponsors, ya know.So, how does Meeting Evil fare? Well, it doesn't leave the audience very long as to the Jackson character's personality. From his first appearance, we see him step out of his car with an all black ensemble on and an evil glimmer in his eyes... then the bodies start piling up. Someone chewing gum while on duty at a gas station? Kill them! A girl refuses to let you use a free payphone at her office? Bludgeon her to death! And so on... for the most minor of infractions, all who meet with his disapproval meet the same fate. And guess who winds up being the cops No 1 suspect? Clue: It's not the snappy dresser!Yep, Luke Wilson is the family man dragged along for the ride, in this very violent thriller which could only escape with a 15 certificate because most of the bloodshed takes place off-camera. It doesn't abound in great psychological studies either, Jackson just kills... because he feels like it. He starts off menacing, but by the end his activities have become so far-fetched he starts to resemble a parody of himself. There's also a noticeable lack of depth... because all the focus is on Jackson and his antics, the other participants get short changed. There's a slight twist at the end which changes hardly anything... Then the lights go out. End of movie.I felt hollow while it was on, and pretty much unmoved afterwards. Routine stuff, really. 5/10

garman-productions This movie starts out somewhat interesting with SLJ playing his standard menacing character by rote. But the character played by Luke Wilson makes one mystifying decision after the next, defying logic and common sense. I can never understand why lousy writing such as seen in this movie gets a regular pass by the producers of so many movies. Maybe they don't even actually read the scripts and just are interested in "demographics".And the two detectives are more than bumbling; they are boring too. In an unintentional comedic bit of casting/writing; the two actors playing Luke Wilson' children, a boy and girl, look nothing like the parents and play deadpan throughout their on screen time. Even if they are supposed to be adopted, one would expect some emotion from them but it rarely shows.The alleged "twist" at the end is thrown in there along with the rest of the ridiculous inexplicable plot devices. Thus, a noisy nonsensical waste of time all around.

sforrester-3 This film should have been so good but wasn't. I watched right to the end, waiting desperately for Wilson to show some kind of emotion and.....nothing. If you basically end up going on the day out from hell with a psychopath , I'm pretty sure your face would register surprise or dismay or just something relating to an emotion but Wilson managed to go through the entire film as though he was standing in an incredibly long queue at the bank. His wife, on the other hand, managed to go from Stepford to Psycho in one fell swoop. Throw in some idiotic police, Silent Bob's love children, an apparently homeless child with a dog and a ridiculously stereotyped Samuel L Jackson then you have the recipe for Meeting Evil, a film I would have liked to have liked but didn't. I noticed some people are questioning why it went straight to DVD, I'm questioning why it was made in the first place.