Kid suspects a neighbor is a serial killer.

Rating: 4/10 (29 April 2007)

How to watch this movie? Step1: Get someone to pay your way. Step2: After the first 10 minutes take a nap for 60. Step3: Continue watching the movie.
Friends, I don't want to disturb ya, but you know how movies generally start out innocuously until about 15 to 20 minutes into it (more or less) then something happens and the ball starts to roll, so to speak? Well this movie got the ball rolling early within 10 minutes or so then dropped it for about 60 wherein NOTHING WAS HAPPENING except some childish voyeurism, pranks, and teenage crush.
I had no idea this movie was going to be a take on a famous Alfred Hitchcock movie wherein an incapacitated individual, due to boredom, spends much of his time looking out his window with a binoculars; watching the world go by -without him. In this movie a teenager gets confined to house arrest and has to wear an ankle monitor for decking his Spanish teacher. He's young, has a lot of energy, and wants to do stuff but his limited to the proximity of his house. So when not playing video games and talking to his smart/idiot friend (I'm not sure which) on his cell phone, he's looking through his binoculars and sizing up his neighborhood as if for the first time. Shortly, a new girl moves in next door and she becomes the chief object of his voyeurism for a while until they become friends and there is silly jealousy and infatuation on his part. Friends, I have basically outlined an hour of this movie.
This movie almost seemed like 3 movies. The first part: promising, the second part: aimless and boring, and the third part: tense and suspenseful.So the problem I had with this movie is that there was nothing suspenseful or interesting going on for a large chunk of it. I'm giving this movie 4 stars for wasting about 60 minutes of my time. Interestingly, I see that many other IMDb commentators have an opposite view and have generously rolled out the stars. Obviously we see the world with different eyes. I can only comment on WHAT I SAW or DID NOT SEE, as the case may be. Love, Boloxxxi.