See-through dress, see-through plot

Rating: 2/10 (3 May 2007)

Assets: Recent big screen débutante Sarah Roemer in her bikinis and that loose-knit see-through dress. She's like a teenage Gisèle Bündchen, with the slow and easy moves of a valley girl. Liabilities: a supposedly thrilling story that is so predictable I almost fell asleep, and the fabulous Carrie-Anne Moss wildly underplaying her hand as a suburban single mom. The very promising title is entirely wasted on this uninspired exercise, penned by thirty-something screenwriters Carl Ellsworth and Christopher B. Landon. Small surprise their track record is mostly in TV, for the likes of "Xena" and "Buffy". Same with the director, D.J. Caruso ("The Shield", "Smallville", "Dark Angel"). Admittedly, with "Red Eye", Ellsworth has at least one respectable thriller to his name, but then, that one was directed by veteran scarecrow Wes Craven. It makes "Disturbia" stand out all the more sharply as a lame mini-series in the guise of a feature.