The only person this movie could horrify is Hitchcock.

Rating: 3/10 (27 July 2009)

The first half of "Disturbia" shapes up to be an obvious homage to "Rear Window," so I got sucked in. I had to fasten my seat belt for the second half, though; it plummets mercilessly into schlock, approaching the level of "I Know Who Killed Me," the Lindsay Lohan bottom- dweller that deserved even more than its record-setting eight Razzies.
Fellow time-killing IMDb.com critics have pointed out the plot inconsistencies, so I won't. I endorse praise of LaBeouf's and Morse's performances, and heartily add Aaron Yoo to the list. And I would thank the filmmakers for lighting the many night scenes so badly that I was spared from seeing much of the action.
That's almost it for praise, though. The turning point toward Razzie-world occurs with the first lines delivered by the talent- free Sarah Roemer (cf. bare-breasted Phoebe Cates and masturbating Judge Reinhold in "Fast Times..." for real swimming girl/peeping tom footage). But let's not blame a flicker-in-the-pan like Roemer when the "Disturbia" authors, Landon and Ellsworth, are the real perps. The first half shows such promise that one or both obviously have talent, which makes me wonder how this movie went so wrong. Somebody (the director?) trashed an initially engaging homage to Hitchcock, which the writers had enlivened with some crisp and funny dialogue, mostly delivered by LaBeouf's Kale (who names their kid after a crop in the cabbage family?) and his sidekick, Ronnie, played by the gifted Mr. Woo.
It was one of Ronnie's lines, inf act, that summed up the movie for me when the credits finally rolled: "Operation Stupid is officially over!"