Rear Window minus some important ingredients

Rating: 2/10 (8 October 2009)

How funny that Caruso, not the singer but the director of this movie, thought he could get away with this. The disturbing things is that critics, for the most part gave him a pass. Riping "Rear Window" is a natural ambition for a thoughtless filmmaker but, go
back to the original, please. There are some ingredients that made the classic a classic. John Michael Hayes screenplay for starters. James Stewart, Grace Kelly and Thelma Ritter and of course Hitchock himself. Shia LeBoeuf is a mystery to me, a cocky, unbearable presence on the screen. He must have somebody really powerful behind him otherwise how can anyone explain it. Everything is acted and phony. The teachings from Hitchcock have, obviously fallen in deaf ears. And yet, the film did pretty well at the box office. How can it possibly be!? I thought "Disturbia" was tedious and irritating. A pointless exercise in futility.