Rotten
Good People provides the degree of entertainment one expects while sitting on a sofa watching a direct-to-video effort rather than the higher standards one sets for paying $10 for a movie ticket.
James Berardinelli, ReelViews
Good People
Money changes everything
2014 · 1h 30m · R
Action, Crime, Thriller
Directed by
Henrik Ruben Genz
Overview
Tom and Anna Wright, a young American couple, fall into severe debt while renovating Tom's family home in London. As the couple faces the loss of their dream to have a house and start a family, they discover that the tenant in the apartment below them is dead, and he's left behind a stash of cash—$400,000 worth. Though initially hesitant, Tom and Anna decide that the plan is simple: all they have to do is quietly take the money and use only what's necessary to get them out of debt. But when they start spending the money and can't seem to stop, they find themselves the target of a deadly adversary—the thief who stole it—and that's when very bad things start happening to good people.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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Tomatometer
Rotten
"Good People" goes from being simply pedestrian to outright preposterous without batting an eye.
Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
James Franco and Kate Hudson are uncharacteristically muted in this watchable but wholly unsurprising London crime caper.
Guy Lodge, Variety
Rotten
Good People grinds to its predictable, pat conclusion and betrays its generally solid performances and respectable artistic pedigree. Sometimes good people do bad things, sometimes they just make movies that start well and end badly.
Cary Darling, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Rotten
Good People might have been better titled Dumb People, or at least People Who Have Never Seen A Movie In Their Entire Lives.
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club
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