I can't believe this is considered a "good" thriller these days.

Rating: 3/10 (5 September 2007)

I heard good things about this movie, and I just can't believe it... Hitchcock must be rolling in his grave. First of all, there was almost no suspense or even setup for the matter. The movie had 1 "suspenseful" scene which was when the friend was being seen on video in the neighbors house.
First of all, the father dying angle was pointless. It was nothing more than an excuse to get him under house arrest and it's basically never touched on again, and never used for character or plot development.
The characters are flat and predictable and nothing at all comes from his surveillance of people's routines. Ashley reacts calmly when she is trapped in her own car with someone she's pretty convinced is a murderer. I see a lot more bikini scenes (thank goodness) in her future, because her acting has a long way to go. Then this guy is hiding rotting corpses in his house, and he's comfortable enough to let the cops search his house because well, the bodies are in a grated vent.... how could he ever be found out we wonder?? The WHOLE movie was like listening to the National Anthem at a baseball game. EVERYONE knows what's coming, everyone sings along, everyone knows how it ends and you go through the paces. There are no other possible suspects, there is no internal doubt or strife, there are almost no naysayers (maybe the cops, but not even really, they even find it plausible) and there is no conflict. Hell even, The Burbs had more suspense than this movie.
It's one savor was Lebouf's performance. He turned a character with no meat at all into something believable, and most importantly likable. He kept them movie moving along, and I do think he's going to have a great career. Hopefully he'll end up looking back on Disturbia as one of his worst movies.