Disturbia

Rating: 4/10 (5 February 2009)

After seeing the death of his father in a car accident, Kale becomes withdrawn and antagonistic to an nasty teacher. After hitting the teacher, Kale is put under house arrest with a 100 yard limit to how far he can go. So what else is he going to do but become a peeping Tom? He starts spying on a pretty girl called Ashley and also on a guy who may be a killer. Sound familiar? That's because this is a blatant rip off of the hitchcock classic "Rear Window". To compare the the two would be demeaning to Rear Window, so I'll just say that "Disturbia" is an okay average movie but I don't really understand why some people like it so much. The pace is pretty sluggish and I found myself fast-forwarding through chunks of it. The acting was good, though, but the story itself was too slow.