Wanted To Hate This Movie

Rating: 8/10 (14 April 2007)

I walked into this movie expecting to hate it since I'm not really much of a fan of Shia Labouef he annoys me to the utter end. But instead i walked in and saw a decent Hollywood flick. The story centers around Kale(La Bouef) who is 17 and his father was recently killed in a car crash, leaving Kale to become a rebel and not care for much else. Until his Spanish teacher makes things a lot worse for him tells him something pretty rude about his father making Kale give him one big shiner on his eye.
Kale is sent to court, and the judge understands his position so instead of community service or being put in Jail, Kale is sentenced to house arrest with a little gadget on his foot that if he walks outside a 10 yard line the cops will arrive, and they give him the three strike line after three times of being caught by cops he'll be sentenced back to court for a new punishment. His mom decides to cancel everything his Xbox 360 account , his iTunes the TV everything leaving Kale with only one option spying on the neighbors. So this is where the story falls into a rear window type except this time for teens.
After spying on the girl next door, he hears on the news and in the paper about missing girls and starts suspecting his neighbor Mr, Turner(Morse), he eyes him, watches him and tries, to pin everything on him for him to be a murderer. Without giving to much away, the movie ends pretty predictable, but it's still enjoyable. There's a lot of comedy and a bit of thrills though i wish they had set up for more tense moments with Mr Turner and left the teen thing as a sub plot as it wasn't to important.
Also in my theater there were a lot of boom microphones in the shots, someone at Dreamworks is getting fired most likely, and it's not the first I've heard of them being in there either, and it did take away from the movie a lot, even the crowd laughed when seeing them. All in all it was still enjoyable very good Hollywood movie but i still hate Shia Labouef but i guess i'll have no choice but to watch him in the future as he has a lot of upcoming projects including Transformers and Indiana Jones 4.
All in all it's a movie worth seeing for fun.
8/10