I expected a bit more

Rating: 5/10 (22 January 2008)

Good sides: 1) Basic plot story is believable. All of us stayed in house for couple of days and when you are really bored, you just go and see what other people are doing. You're not a voyeur if you look through your window and it is possible that you'll find some strange things about your neighbors; things you don't notice every day. 2) Director D.J. Caruso managed to make a good movie on direction part. His camera angels are solid and the use of normal camera that is given to the characters is great, but it's not very original. 3) Acting of Shia LaBeouf is absolutely for praise. Shia confirmed that he could turn out to be a good actor. 4) "Disturbia" is not a bad movie but since I watched so many very similar movies this one will not leave any tail as great thriller in my memory. But this is movie that you can easily watch and it isn't good but it also is not that bad. And one thing; this is not horror thriller, because there is nothing scary in it. If you were afraid, you are either juvenile or person who can easily be scared.
Bad sides: 1) The whole movie reminds me on few other movies like "Rear Window" and especially "The Shining". Why must the villain in this movie try to enter through the doors like Jack Nicholson? 2) After solid beginning this movie starts to sink when we realize that there is killer involved here. All the scenes from the moment Julie Brecht enters the house of Robert Turner are a bit stupid to me. Let me tell you why. We are presented with normal characters here and also they are very human; they do what normal people do in every situation. But do you have a killer next door? 3) The ending. I don't like it. Ronnie is hit with metal baseball bat and he is OK. Kale managed to beat a man who killed at least 10 people and of course our main characters lived happily ever after. Yes, only in "Disturbia". 5/10