Still waiting for any reason not to eject the DVD

Rating: 2/10 (11 August 2007)

I am now 45 minutes into a tangled, pointless mess of sheer tedium called "Disturbia." The first scene establishes a Great Relationship between a son and his Great Dad. Then an accident occurs, dad's killed. The son's school work and attitude goes downhill, he punches a teacher, and ends up sentenced to house arrest wearing an ankle bracelet. Most of this was needless set-up to get us to the point where the kid is stuck in his house with nothing to do but spy on the neighbors, and the whole premise could have been accomplished in five minutes.
Okay, then we get way too much time spent establishing that he's bored around the house. We meet the requisite comic-relief buddy, a token Asian-American slacker. Then there's the vixenish, seductive, beer-commerical-model of a teenage girl who moves in next door. But...the precociously sexual thing only lasts a little bit until she and the boy meet, and now she's more like a regular high school girl.
The supposedly funny parts aren't funny, the scary parts aren't scary, the tension isn't tense, the girl's character is all over the map, the male lead is channeling John Cusack bigtime. Now we're at 59 minutes, and I'm out of here. I recommend the Simpsons episode where Bart breaks his leg and thinks he sees Flanders murder Maude. Much better show than this dreck.