Disturbia (HD DVD)

...and I could say that Disturbia is nothing like a good thriller. But surprisingly I won't as this sleeper hit of last year actually hit's more high notes than flats. Amusingly named teenager Kale Brecht (Shia Lebeouf) has gone a bit off the rails since the death of his father in a road accident a year earlier. When he punches a teacher in class he finds himself consigned to house arrest in a bid to make him see sense. Leaving a teenager at home by ...
...to kids snooping around. Disturbia works because it's pretty tightly paced and features only a handful of characters. I suppose you could call it an update on Rear Window with one man confined to one place while danger unfolds in front of his eyes. The acting is pretty good, Lebeouf is probably the best of the bunch at the moment and manages to tread the line between being annoying and amusing on the right side. David Morse as the neighbour is one ...

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Disturbia is in ways like a flashback to the 1980’s, during that period a series of teen horror or thriller movies bought adult genre’s to a younger audience. Prime examples of this were The Lost Boys and Fright Night, both had a sort of cult mentality about them and the kids loved them. Turn the clock back three to four months and in America Disturbia had much the same effect, a new generation of cinema viewer gets a bit of teen mush wrapped in ...
...and a terrible secret! Disturbia is very much a remake of Rear Window for the new Millennia, it has of course been given some very modern elements and products to bring it up to date, but anyone denying a similarity between the two movies is a liar. The format is obviously very different in Rear Window James Stewart or Christopher Reeve depending on the version were trapped in a wheelchair, here Kale has one of those security anklets, once he ventures ...

sghawken 08.08.2007 · Read full review
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Before the Cynics come out to play saying it’s not out yet I went see this film whilst on holiday in Orlando. Film Only Review. Plot Summary – The film starts with kale(Shia LeBeouf) and his father fishing to a backdrop of rolling mountains and lush fields. Kale loses his father in a car crash returning from the said fishing trip and over the next year goes into melt down which culminates in him punching his Spanish teacher and Kale being put ...
...his mum Julie(Carrie-Anne Moss) cuts him off from his Xbox 360 and iTunes forcing him to venture around the house and even the garden. Whilst on one of his visits to the garden he notices the new very good looking girl next door this would be Ashley(Sarah Roemer) and sets upon spying on her with best buddy Ronnie(Aaron Yoo). Upon spying on her while she works out and swims he notices another neighbour with the same car that is linked with the abduction ...

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MOVIE REVIEW ONLY Every killer lives next door to someone , this is gotta be one of the thrillers of the year for me, no predictable once upon a times in this movie, it starts off with Kale involved in a tradedy which gets you hooked from the begining, Kale then becomes a bit of a problematic teenager he is placed under house arrest for punching his spanish teacher in class. Kale occupies himself by spying on his neighbours, ...
...one of the quiet neversee neighbours Mr. Turner along the way he gets friendly with his newly moved in neighbour Ashley, while being stuck under house arrest, Kale finds himself watching many a news report where missing girl reports keep cropping up, this seems to set a warning light as the neversee neighbours seems to fit the description, after spying on neighbours with his trusty binocloirs he seems to witness what appears ...

MILLSY99 13.09.2007 (25.09.2007) · Read full review
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