Total Unredeemable Garbage

Rating: 1/10 (22 August 2007)

I've sat through some pretty horrible films in my lifetime, but I actually had to turn this one off half way through... I couldn't bear it any longer.
This is without a doubt one of the worst films I have ever seen. It's definitely the worst film of 2007 so far... Before I sat down to watch this film I had been mislead to believe that this would be some kind of thriller... In actuality, this film takes the worst elements and clichés of every teen drama ever made and meshes them together into a nice little inoffensive package. Yeah, sure, essentially this film is about a killer who lives next door and an average teen who foils his plans and blah, blah, blah... But, there is nothing remotely interesting about this flick and it's submerged in so much putrid banality that one cannot help but to think "hey, haven't I seen all of this before in another movie starring Tom Hanks?" And yet this film is about a hundred times more watered down and it is loaded with the kind of sickening, corny sentimentality that can only be found in the likes of a made for TV Lifetime special. With that said, anyone equating this pile of cinema dung with the flawless classic Rear Window is just an idiot. I had been told that this was a modern day Rear Window but, if anything, it's just a hollow representation of that great film. While Rear Window had you at the edge of your seat this film has you rolling your eyes thinking to yourself "how come no one I knew in High School acted like the characters on screen? And why must Hollywood always stereotype teenage guys as being sex crazed idiots?" This is the type of film that represents everything that is wrong with cinema today.
Avoid.