Right at Your Door (2005)
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 55
Fresh: 37 | Rotten: 18
Though Right at Your Door dips into melodrama at the end, it's an otherwise tense, effective, and eerily plausible doomsday scenario.
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Critic Reviews: 14
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 6
Though Right at Your Door dips into melodrama at the end, it's an otherwise tense, effective, and eerily plausible doomsday scenario.
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Movie Info
A dirty bomb detonates in Los Angeles and a terrified husband decides to seal himself up in his suburban home and await the return of his working wife in first-time director Chris Gorak's tense and topical drama. As the sun rises on another day in Los Angeles, Brad (Rory Cochrane) sends his wife, Lexi (Mary McCormack), off to work with a kiss and a smile. When the media begins reporting on the detonation of a bomb within the city limits and a potentially toxic cloud covers the L.A. basin in ash,
Aug 24, 2007 Wide
Jan 29, 2008
Lions Gate
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Cast
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Mary McCormack
Lexi -
Rory Cochrane
Brad -
Tony Perez
Alvaro -
Scotty Noyd Jr.
Timmy -
Jon Huertas
Rick -
Max Kasch
Corporal Marshall -
David Richards
Neil Simmons -
Nina Barry
Kathy Reynolds -
Ed Martin
Juan Martinez -
Jenny O'Hara
Lexi's Mom -
Will McCormack
Jason -
Hector Luis Bustamante
Store Owner -
Soledad St. Hilaire
Hardware Woman -
Alejandra Flores
Terrified Woman -
Nigel Gibbs
Another Officer -
Emeka
Synthetic Soldier 2 -
Marisol Ramirez
Synthetic Soldier 3 -
Chris Rocha
Hurried Man -
Jessica Freitas
Gail -
Kimberly Scott
City Official -
Marty Grey
Patrol Officer -
Brian Bloom
Police Officer -
Daisy Tormé
Pleasant Phone Voice
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All Critics (57) | Top Critics (14) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (18) | DVD (9)
Nightmarish.
The acting's pretty good, and the cinematography keeps things lively.
[Stars] Cochrane and McCormack have zero chemistry and their characters are so different that they never compute as a couple.
It's the Cold War redux, but with the Enemy now everywhere.
As frightening as it intends to be, but not enjoyably so.
Has an ironic and unpredictable ending.
Strikingly different than most end-of-the-world midnight-movie scenarios.
A realistic chilling post-9/11 doomsday film.
Right At Your Door effectue en somme un retour fracassant sur les deux dernières grandes tragédies ayant secoué la population états-unienne.
As a story, it's about twice as long as it should be, but as a horror experience, it's just about right.
...a low-key yet sporadically tense drama...
Right at Your Door provides a very tense experience for its short, 96-minute runtime; however, it still ends up letting you down. It's not nearly as paranoid as it tries to be.
While Brad fumes in his tight shots, Lexi is mobile.
The agitated, theatrical dialogue reaches frenzied, jackhammer proportions even during the film's supposed quiet moments; it's thoroughly draining.
A pretty chilling affair.
It will rattle your comfort zone and keep you unnerved throughout.
There's no levity at all to distract from the unrelenting horror, unless you consider the entire film to be a big sick joke
After the Katrina tragedy, the filmmaker's fears are both well-grounded and keenly realized.
Cunningly riffs on everything from George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and The Crazies to our current terrorist-related night-sweats.
McCormack and Cochrane can't transcend the cliched, meandering dialogue, so Brad and Lexi's dilemma never feels like anything but a didactic contrivance.
Audience Reviews for Right at Your Door
Super Reviewer
After Lexi leaves home to visit Central LA, there's a terrorist attack involving chemical bombs. After the attack, her musician husband, Brad, fails to find her and reluctantly seals himself inside his house. He will have to deal with this decision in the days to come.
REVIEW
Chris Gorak's directorial debut taps into the post-9/11 paranoia and fear of global terrorism and raises some very tough and emotionally devastating questions by creating nihilistic situations that create the premises for this brilliant, tense film about what started off as a normal day soon turned into an absolute nightmare for the commuters and residents of Los Angeles.
Aspiring musician Brad (Rory Cochrane - "A Scanner Darkly") starts off his day preparing breakfast for his working wife Lexi (Mary McCormack). After he sees her off he sets about his usual routine around the house. But today everything is going to change. His music station is interrupted by the news bulletin that a series of explosions have shaken LA. He looks out his front door and sure enough smoke clouds are rising from the urban centre, and the streets are plagued with emergency services rushing in to help. Brad attempts to leave his suburban area and to rescue his wife - who he hasn't been able to contact. But the police won't let him leave the area. Brad, along with a neighbour, prepare to wait it out, but then comes the report that everyone has to seal their homes as the chemicals from the bombs are now airborne. They seal themselves in, but when Lexi arrives looking for help, Brad has to make a devastating decision - does he let her in and run the risk of contracting the infection, or does he leave her outside to the mercy of the army and scientists roaming the neighbourhood looking for the infected.
"Right at Your Door" is a very intense movie with brilliant performances from Rory Cochrane and Mary McCormack. Many people have discredited the film saying that it becomes boring and monotonous during the last forty minutes or so but I found it to be very engrossing and nerve-wrecking all through and never found it to be boring. That being said, it's not something I'd watch again. Intense and very interesting, it's worth checking out at least once.
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