An artless teen thriller

Rating: 5/10 (20 August 2007)

Disturbia was average overall. Two thumbs up to Shia Lebouf for portraying you average juvenile in America today. If only that committee who's responsible for labeling the genre of this movie labeled it as a teen thriller then I probably would have taken a raincheck on watching it. Whenever thrillers premiere there is that expectation from the audience to cling them onto their seats as tightly as possible, now before I go on this movie does succeed in getting the audience into the movie, which is one of the basic elements of a horror film or thriller. However, that crush on that new neighbor while he was on house arrest and their budding relationship I felt was completely unnecessary. It sorta took the flavor away from the film. A better ending to that story would be incorporating the girl into the final part of the script where the next door killer ties the new girlfriend up and not the mom. And then you'd have you're classic Robin Hood style ending where Kale saves his girlfriend from the wretched serial killer, they share a long kiss and they live happily ever after. That definitely would be a better ending to an average film. Perhaps killing off some of the characters towards the end would have drained everyone horrifically and could have paved the way properly for a sequel, like the Ring.