"Rear Window" for a new generation.

Rating: 3/10 (21 September 2008)

As pointed out many times in other reviews, this is a teenage remake of "Rear Window." "Juvenile" might indeed be an apt description for it. Hitchcock's masterpiece succeeds in implicating the audience in the dire consequences of voyeurism. It also leaves doubt about whether a murder occurred until the end. That complex psychology is missing from "Disturbia," replaced with teenage angst and slasher-movie violence. In a simplistic coda and a tip of the hat to the original, "Disturbia" leaves us by resolving another neighbor's dilemma  in this case, reporting the children across the street for watching pornography. Sad, how society, movies and movie audiences have changed.