Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys vs. Ed Gein

Rating: 1/10 (13 May 2007)

I had to fight the urge to get up and leave. This is "Rear Window" for idiots. Rather than using a bird's eye view of people's lives to provide insight into the human psyche, this is Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys going after Ed Gein.
A woman is kidnapped by someone driving a dark blue vintage 60's Mustang with a dent in the front fender. Your neighbor pulls into his garage in the middle of the night driving a dark blue vintage 60's Mustang with a dent in the front fender. What do you do? Logical people call the cops. These characters decide to watch him with binoculars.
Add dialog that was written by a 10th grader, dramatic music cues that feel more accidentally satirical than empathetic, and pretty weak art direction, and you've got a truly awful teen movie.
The most interesting piece of dramatic tension, a relationship between Carrie-Anne Moss and David Morse, is a throw away. It's mentioned once and never returns.
And by the way ... Sarah Roemer has nothing on Grace Kelly. Alfred Hitchcock loved sexy women and Grace Kelly was a total looker.