Do we really know our neighbors?

Rating: 8/10 (30 August 2007)

*Disturbia SPOILERS*
Kale Brecht (Shia LaBeouf) is still reeling from his father Daniel (Matt Craven)'s death one year before in a car accident on their way back from a fishing trip, and overreacts when his Spanish teacher Senor Gutierrez (Renè Rivera) says 'What would your father think?' (a thing he had no right to do) and punches him.
He is sentenced to three months of house arrest (the whole summer) - with helpful looking on by Officer Gutierrez (Jose Pablo Cantillo), the Spanish teacher's cousin, and after his subscriptions to iTunes and Xbox are canceled by his very worried - and still grieving - mother Julie (Carrie-Ann Moss) he ends up having to resort to looking at his neighbors - including a high-profile family in which the husband cheats on his wife with the maid, three terrible children who get off on playing pranks on Kale and watch porn movies in their room despite being terribly underage, and newcomer to the 'Disturbia' neighborhood Ashley (Sarah Roemer) and her family - through his windows, along with his friend Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), and later with Ashley too.
But as days pass Kale begins to notice really disturbing particulars about neighbor Robert Turner (David Morse) who recently moved in the neighborhood from Texas, and after he sees a young woman running terrified in Turner's home he begins to believe that not only the man kidnapped and killed some women in the area, but also that he is a serial killer, who has already killed more women in Texas and moved in Disturbia to keep killing undetected...
But who will believe him?
Slick, exciting and interesting 'teen' remake of 'Rear Window', 'Disturbia' features awesome acting from the two lead males Shia LaBeouf and David Morse, from Matt Craven and from Carrie-Ann Moss, some above average acting from all the other actors, a nice pace, good use of the score and locations, and a lot of well-created suspense.
Not up to 'Rear Window' level, but quite enjoyable and worth buying.
Disturbia: 8/10.