Worst Movie I've seen in Years

Rating: 1/10 (11 October 2007)

I hate to rate this movie as high as a 1 but I guess that's as low as it goes. I'll begin with what was good about the movie. The acting was fine, the premise was good and the production was fine. The writing in this film is simply lazy. For example, the police respond within a minute every time the main character goes past the boundary that his ankle bracelet allows, until it would be beneficial for them to arrive quickly. In this case the officer accepts the call (even though he is off duty), but then decides he'll respond when he's good and ready. Let's be realistic, he would either accept the call and respond with some haste, or he would let someone else get the call. Also, we have no idea why a minor would get house arrest for hitting a teacher who made a completely unprofessional and insensitive comment; this again, is lazy writing. There are also dozens of times when the main characters could have called the police on the neighbor (e.g. when he goes into the girls' car), but they don't because they are idiots. If they were really sure of the neighbor's guilt, they could have simply got the girl to call the cops and say that he touched her inappropriately. The ensuing investigation would reveal the dead bodies in his house, the connections to the past murders etc. But then again, this would make too much sense. When the writers should have gotten creative, they coped out and made the characters act as though they were mentally challenged. My final complaint is about the pacing; a bunch of useless slow story in the beginning, followed by pointless fast-paced action scenes. Even in these action scenes, lazy writing prevailed. When the main character is continuously grabbing for the transmitter on the counter, he has it in his hands several times but just ends up dropping it (as though it were covered in oil). This was the worst movie I have seen this year!