Steals some from every genre, but still doesn't fully work.

Rating: 5/10 (5 May 2007)

Disturbia is about Kale, a kid whose father passed away a year ago in a car accident. When asked one too many questions by his Spanish teacher, he punches him and gets put on house arrest (No, he doesn't break his leg.) Of course, chaos ensues when he begins to believe his neighbor is a murderer, so he stakes out trying to find out. Overall it's an OK movie. There's really nothing special about it, and at times, it can get overly corny. Though I liked Shia Labeuf, he's really not much of an actor. He acts like himself, or like a mad himself, but he never get any emotion across to me. The actress playing his love interest was OK, and the guy playing his friend was also OK, but again, nothing special. The movie itself was just a shell of the Hitchcock classic Rear Window. Rear Window is a much better film, but if you want to check this mediocre film out go ahead.
My rating: ** out of ****. 100 mins. PG-13 for violence and language