Suspense-Free Hitchcock Rip-Off -- 100 Minutes of ZZZZ!

Rating: 1/10 (11 August 2007)

It was a first rate rip-off they schemed at Dreamworks Pictures. Let's remake Hitchcock's Rear Window, but THIS TIME we'll make it a teen make-out flick, make the killer not just a wife murderer but a serial killer, toss in lots of Porky's style gawking and drooling, jazz it up with cell phones and computers; and we'll have the perfect movie for today's audiences, which at Dreamworks they assume are idiots. Idiots we are, unless the input of thousands of 10's is another studio-induced corruption of this website.
This picture has no suspense whatever. It goes from one stupid and inept misconception to another. We always know what happens next; except... except at the climax. Here they combine a bunch of leftover rotting corpses with the action; until.....
The final confrontation with the killer --- not to give anything away, but ---- the screen goes so dark that we have no clue what happens.
The only redeeming entertainment value is I enjoyed watching Ashley, slender body, long hair, looking good! Somehow, though, there seem to be way too many 2007 movies where watching a pretty actress is the only thing the movie has going for it.
REAR WINDOW was a classic 40 years ago and it still reaches an audience in 2007. It will still be a classic in 2057. DISTURBIA is a piece of trash and won't even be a bad memory in 4 months. We paid $1.35 to rent the DVD. That's 67.5 cents each. Yeegods! what if we'd spent $4.86 at Blockbuster or seen it at the multiplex! Horrors!