Overrated

Rating: 5/10 (24 September 2007)

Rear Window meets teeny-bopper flick. That's basically how to describe this film. SPOILERS........this movie could have worked on a paranoia level (a la American "Dark Water") and kept along that track. However, while the first half starts out pretty decent and looks like it will lead to paranoid schizo thoughts, it segue-ways into a teen love story, and then just drops into a stupid, PG-13'esque slasher mode, with no common sense whatsoever. Many lapses in story telling (e.g. where's Mom through half the story) coupled with a stereotypical ending should have made this a direct-to-DVD flick instead. Only saving grace may be Shaia LeBeouf, who is charismatic, and has potential to go places. Otherwise, pure fluff.