About the Bit Near the End..

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2012)

It is a very good film, I would say, but, however, there are two points that I would like to focus on.
1) This is very similar to rear window, as highlighted in the FAQ section of this film, and also contains similarities to other films of that typical genre.
2) The intense realism is kept up throughout the entire film, with an elderly man feeling watched, then the thrilling and intense conclusion where "Ashley", or Sarah Roemer comes to save "Kale", or Shia LaBeouf from "Mr Turner", or David Morse. In scenes mentioned, which appear before those mentioned above, such as the fight scene in the kitchen, "Kale" is trying to unplug the device to alert the police, which is later highlighted by "Mr Turner" as being the boy who cried wolf, as he begins to frame him. "Ashley", of course then shouts up the stairs and shouts up the stairs, "Kale?" several times, and "Mr Turner" is distracted, and then the escape scene begins, with "Kale" hitting "Mr Turner" and then, after a lot of dramatic music from the trusty on hand, live orchestra, they manage to shut the door and lock it, and then "Kale" begins saying, "We've got to find a way to cross the line." This is good, as for our viewing pleasure, they've now got to deal with the psychopath, run out the window into the pool, all to trigger the alarm on his ankle tag. However, cast your minds back to the beginning of the film, unless they aren't already shredded by the incompetence of the police forces nearby, who refuse to listen to "Kale", and the women in a sort of "fake floor" setting, where their bodies are all twisted, mangled and rotting (scary! -.-) the woman said, "...It's tamper proof.." This, by definition means that it can't be tampered with so that you can get away, and run off, therefore, if you were to take it off, or try to break it, etc, this would trigger the omnipotent "red light", which obviously would mean that the police would be called early, they would arrest, if not attack "Mr Turner", and they would search "Mr Turner's" house, and find his Mom and the dead bodies, happily ever after, story ends, affectionate kissing scene at the end, sorted.
On a penultimate note, if you consider "tamper proof" to mean that it can't be broken, and if broken, nothing will happen, then the entire film you've just watched is just pointless, as he could have just taken off the ankle bracelet, no-one would ever have known about "Mr Turner" and his dead bodies, and he would have gone somewhere else, being a repeat of the scenario in Austin, Texas. This obviously, to the normal person will seem stupid that I would even write this, I really don't want to wake up tomorrow with loads of e-mails from lots of people who have copied and pasted Dictionary.com with the definition of "Tamperproof" on, so if anyone does this, they will receive an email reply from me saying what is currently displayed in this Paragraph here.
Finally, this is from me speaking as a film-goer, not a critic, the reason for my mark is that I have watched horror movies, and I intend to watch many more, and DISTURBIA was a very good film, a decent length, without being a long horror film, which I'm sure you'll all agree is very annoying, with scares becoming lacking, and just generally boring. There are exceptions, of course, such as the Shining (debatably a horror) and just some obvious others. It isn't a really short horror either, as a movie-goer, it's the moment that hits you, the "Oh god, it's near the end..." moment, after about an hour, which I did not feel until about ten minutes from the end, with "Kale" in the chair with gaffer tape around his mouth. That is the reason I've given this an 8 out of 10, due to good acting (except in parts), and a general tension, created by our helpful orchestra, and it being let off, when necessary. This was a very good film, which I would recommend to anyone.
My real location? Somewhere Back in Time.