YMMV / No Good Deed (2014)

• Critic-Proof: The film was panned by critics, getting a 10 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. However, the film was a success. It cost $13 million to make, but earned $52 million.
• Complete Monster: Colin Evans is a narcissistic murderer who kills a prison guard and driver on his escape from jail. When he flees, he tracks down his former fiancee who had cheated on him and brutally murders her for it. Later, Terri allows Colin into her home after he'd been supposedly lost in the rain. Colin proceeds to toy with her best friend Meg before beating her to death with a shovel and taking Terri and her young children hostage. Colin shoots a police officer who comes to investigate and brings Terri and the kids to where he left his own fiancee's body with the revelation that Terri's husband was cheating on her with Colin's fiancee. For the sake of his offended pride, he plans to kill Terri and her children before he kills her husband just as a harsh lesson about how nobody touches what's his.
• Harsher in Hindsight: As if the numerous scenes of women being brutalized weren't bad enough, the film was released the same week that a video of Ray Rice punching his fiance came to light.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • The movie is actually a well-made, albeit somewhat typical, "break-in" thriller. Then the twist comes in, and turns a somewhat entertaining suspense yarn into a Lifetime-channel-type anti-man screed.
  • See "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot on the main page. Colin quickly figures out that Terri doesn't know her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, but instead of simply blowing the whistle and then cheerfully watch the fireworks from the sidelines (or even team up with Terri to get revenge against Jeffrey), he simply decides to kill her and her children, too.

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