You keep waiting for more to happen, or be going on, with David, or for his past to play into the story, but these things don’t happen.

Competent performances and a slick veneer make this revamp go down easily enough.

The Good Neighbor does seem to have a few issues in the details of the narratives, especially regarding the big twists and moments which sometimes don’t make a lot of sense.

Rhys Meyers does what he can, but this is only made watchable by Stefan Ciupek's noirish photography.