Snoozefest

Rating: 5/10 (23 April 2007)

This movie is a real snoozer. It takes 80% of the movie to build up to the meeting with the killer.
The initial story is about a troubled teen who is under house arrest and begins spying on neighbors out of boredom due to his 3 month sentence.
The hero starts to witness strange things at one of the neighbors house and finds out that he fits the profile of a serial killer. The teen has his friends including the gorgeous girl that just moved in next door help him foil the killers plans. You will know how the movie ends five minutes into it.
There is zero suspense, not very interesting characters, and nothing new to the genre. I generally don't like PG-13 horror movies not because they lack gore but because they are targeted to a different market. However, a movie can build suspense and keep the viewers interest with psychological horror without much shown violence. Unfortunately this movie does feel creepy and has no bite. If the producer wants to use the first hour to build the story then good for him. However, the director needs to build suspense and have some thrills, etc. in the last scenes of the movie.
Dean