Forget This Tripe and Watch Rear Window Instead.

Rating: 4/10 (1 June 2015)

Disturbia (2007): Dir: D.J. Caruso / Cast: Shia LaBeouff, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Aaron Yoo: Exploitation take on that dark area of the brain that conjures up such crap as this. Shia LaBeouff plays a teenager under house arrest after punching a teacher. While gazing through binoculars he believes a neighbour is responsible for a series of murders. Starts out fine until burdened under formula. Director D.J. Caruso does his best making the location fun but this is hardly an improvement for a director famous for Taking Lives. As for the cast, only LaBeouff seems remotely three dimensional. With his house arrest situation he is at least given a decent background. He has fun as he spies on his neighbour and makes observations. On the other hand, David Morse is wasted as a typical slasher film villain who, with his talent, should have been more interesting. Sarah Roemer plays a new neighbour as an intended sex symbol. Her role has all the personality of a box of tampons. Carrie-Anne Moss is also wasted as LaBeouff's mother. Aaron Yoo plays the cardboard role of LsBeouff's best friend and it pretty much ends there with the contribution. For superior viewing see Rear Window, which is far more compelling, or the vampire film Fright Night, which has similar themes and still a better film. Both films are worth the double bill as oppose to viewing this crap once. Score: 4 ½ / 10