The Good Neighbour ★★½

TALK about coincidences…The Good Neighbour just has too many contrived ones for its own good.

An American journalist, David (Luke Klientank), arrives in a Latvian city to work for a press agency run by an old friend.

Grant (Bruce Davidson) organises a house and his old car for David to use.

When his car won’t start, he pops over to the neighbour for help and, surprise, it’s an Englishman Robert, played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers.

The pair hit it off and a couple of nights later head off to a nightclub.

David meets a woman there who, surprise again, is also English.

Driving home David accidentally hits a woman riding on a bike. Surprise again, it’s the same woman from the nightclub.

The next day David gets an assignment to, surprise yet again, look into the accident.

Apart from all this, the other main problem is the casting.

If you know anything about the career of Rhys Meyers he almost always plays a dodgy character. Just how dodgy is the reveal I guess.

It’s a serviceable thriller with some tension at times, but just has one too many manufactured plot contrivances.