film: Distrubia

Jerman's Rating: 1 step forward, 3 steps back. Content rating of 4(heavy). Appropriate for college age and older. High school kids might want to watch this, and they would handle it, but this film should be watched by a more mature audience.

Watching the film three quarters of this film, it could have turned out really good. The 'fishing with the dad' scene at the beginning, the trial, the police officer's advice, and the first part of the summer were all promising, but the film turns in a different direction. This film is like a cover of Rear Window, an old Alfred Hichtcock film. The premise is having to stay indoors and taking to voyeurism on the neighborhood. It turns out that one of the neighbors is a murderer. This film has lots of intense scenes, if you don't like scary movies, stay away from this one.

One of the only morals that is taught - spying leads to paranoia, creating a vicious cycle- is taught by the villain. (This means it isn't taught very well.) The main character meanwhile spies on his hot neighbor, the adulterous couple. He doesn't exemplify very many good qualities, his friends and family don't either. The only characters that teach anything good, are the dad (who is only in one scene), the judge, and one police officer. All of these people have very minor roles, and their words are disregarded by the main character.

If you like scary movies like the Hannibal Lector movies, or Saw, or anything that is intense and creepy, then this is the movie for you. If you don't like any of the movies on that list, then stay away.