my thoughts on it...

Rating: 6/10 (28 April 2007)

I'm still not 100% sure what I think about it. At the moment I'd say it's a good popcorn movie (read: you don't need to pay attention). It has the whole happy beginning, turn of events, rather short climax, happy go lucky ending outline that you'd expect. The friend is my hero. Shia LaBeouf did an okay job. And poor David Morse-clearly type-casted. There were parts obviously drawn from 'Rear Window' and 'The 'Burbs'. (Overall plot from 'Rear Window' and the whole humorous no idea what they're doing snooping from 'The 'Burbs'.) There was actually a lot of it that made me laugh (even the parts that I think were supposed to be serious) Although in several scenes I think they were trying too hard. There were a few parts that I think were supposed to be twists that I saw coming so it's either too predictable or I've seen too many movies. Not sure which... Okay. Final decision time. I'd say might as well see it-it's decent entertainment. But you won't be missing out if you wait until it's on DVD.