Lakeview Terrace

The first half of "Lakeview Terrace" is almost always played for laughs as an interracial couple moves next door to a police office, Abel Turner (Samuel L. Jackson), who has a way of looking at things with black-n-white glasses, while having the law on his side, making it difficult for the couple to have the law deal with Abel's passive-aggressiveness in making the couple feel unwelcome in their new neighborhood.

The setup is entertaining enough for a script that swings far too broadly at times and ends up stumbling to a finish, which diminishes most of the first half setup of the film, and delivers a less than interesting or entertaining conclusion.

I give it 2.5 stars, or a grade of C+.