Right At Your Door (2007) 4/10

So I love nuclear radiation/toxic wast/biochemical nightmare films. In this day and age I feel they have a rightful place in film history and can affectively comment on real life societal fears and can truly elevate the horror/sci-fi genre. Right At Your Door does none of these things.

A dirty bomb has gone off in L.A. killing thousands and trapping residents in their homes, unable to leave for fear of contamination. A man is separated from his wife and is stuck in doors while she must remain outside so she doesn't contaminate him. A repairman is also stuck in the home away from his wife.

The film has a pretty good premise but the conflict plays a single note throughout. Husband stuck inside, wife stuck outside. The end. No other major conflict occurs and we spend most of the film sitting around the house with the main character. Hey, I could do that without watching a movie. We're supposed to fear the government but nothing has really shown us that the government are the bad guys. We just know these two are paranoid, so I guess we should be too? I felt that the motivations of the characters were unrealistic as well as boring. The people are jerks and I didn't like watching them for 90 minutes.

The film failed in its goal. I didn't feel scared for the characters because i felt their actions and motivations to be unrealistic and unbelievable, but mostly, unlikeable. The conflict never changes or intensifies. It plays a single note throughout, a note that sounds like a flatline. Snoozer.

Overall - 4/10