This weekend i choose to watch “Disturbia“. Though when i see the trailers it look like Rear Window, the comparison is unavoidable. Rear Window is Hitchcock, and thus the high water mark in peeping tom thrillers.
How can i say? There’s nothing “good” movie this week in 21 Theatre.
Nothing Special
Shia LaBeouf plays a trouble teenager named Kale who, after he punches his Spanish teacher, ends up with a bracelet on his leg and under house arrest. If he goes further than 100 feet from his kitchen, the cops show up and drag him off to jail. His mother (Carrie-Anne Moss) decides he’s not going to spend his time having fun, and so she cuts off his videogames and terminates his iTunes account leaving Kale with nothing to do except build Twinky forts and stare out a window to watch what his suburbanite neighbors are up to.
Disturbia plays a lot like Monster House, with Kale staring out his window at a creepy neighbor and wondering whether or not he might have dead bodies in his garage. Because if you had dead bodies, that’s where you’d keep them… that way your neighbors can see them every time you pull out your car.
Too Slow Moving and Too Predictable
Yeah…the film is too slow moving. Rather than give the thriller that i wanted, Disturbia choose to tell the love story between Kale and his prety girl next door Ashley (Sarah Roemer).
Until the last fifteen minutes Disturbia really gets down to being a thriller. In better movies about voyeuristic mysteries, the entire film before this would have been spent building up to a confrontation between our hero and the guy he believes to be a serial killer. The fun of this type of film is usually in wondering whether or not our voyeur is right: is the guy next door really a murderer or has our hero simply gone stir crazy?
Disturbia only pretends to have that much complexity. In reality we know all the answers long before the movie gets around to reveal them, and even when it does reveal them it does so much too early. The end of the movie devolves into a clumsy, standard horror movie chase sequence in which a killer pursues a victim who, for inexplicable reasons decides to make every stupid mistake the film’s writers could think of.
Technorati Tags: movie review, disturbia, review, film review, movie, Shia LaBeouf
setuju!! mengingatkan pada monster house, dan ketebak bgt ,masih lbh bagus the perfect stranger-nya Bruce willis dan Halle Berry…walo pun sama2 standar.. :upil: