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At one point in "Disturbia", the hero's wiseacre sidekick shouts: "Operation Stupid is officially over!" Alas, his exclamation goes unheeded; for what begins as a serviceable, Gen-Y retooling of "Rear Window" (1954) - gets more overwrought and implausible as it goes along. The film holds tenuous credibility filled with lower-leveled cheap scare attempts. Cribbing shamelessly, and none too skillfully, from the Hitchcock Classic; D.J. Caruso's thriller is formulaic schlock that's watchable only because of star Shia LaBeouf ("A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints"). A smart and scrappy presence, LaBeouf plays his role with a dramatic conviction and sense of urgency that's otherwise MIA from the mediocre "Disturbia". Fresh from inflicting the dire "Blood and Chocolate" on us, screenwriter Christopher Landon collaborated with scribe Carl Ellsworth (the far more enjoyable "Red Eye") on "Disturbia", which transforms "Rear Window's" disabled photojournalist hero into Kale (LaBeouf), a high school student under house arrest for three months after assaulting his Spanish Teacher. Grieving the tragic loss of his father in a car accident, Kale has become a moody, sullen teen facing likely jail time if he violates the terms of his arrest, which restricts his movements to a 100-foot perimeter of the house he shares with his mom, Julie (Carrie-Anne Moss). Initially, Kale spends his days surfing the Internet or playing video games, but he soon turns to spying on his neighbors out of boredom. When not focused on the lissome figure of Ashley (Sarah Roemer), the beautiful next door neighbor, Kale trains his sights on the bizarre, nocturnal habits of the reclusive Mr. Turner (David Morse). Eventually joined by Ashley and his buddy Ronnie (Aaron Yoo) in logging Mr. Turner's comings and goings, Kale fears that the quiet, middle-aged man with the tidy lawn may be a Serial Killer. The problem is, Kale has no hard evidence linking Turner to a string of murders - just his word, which doesn't mean much, given Kale's list of priors. So he drafts Ronnie and Ashley into helping him expose Turner before he claims another victim. After a decent, if strictly by the numbers start, "Disturbia" goes the unfortunate route of jettisoning logic and character development to boost the tension. By and large, the characters in "Disturbia" do all the dumb, reckless things we've come to expect — and mock — in cheesy suspense flicks. And whereas "Rear Window" is a marvel of tight plotting that builds to a nail-biter of a conclusion, Landon and Ellsworth's narrative ebbs and flows, with time out for gratuitous montage sequences, towards a wildly overblown climactic showdown between Kale and Turner in the latter's suburban chamber of horrors. Directed in rote fashion by Caruso ("Taking Lives"), "Disturbia" does serve at least one purpose: it confirms that LaBeouf has the quirky charisma and talent to carry a film. With so much potential set into a film, it's a torrid shame "Disturbia" didn't get jam-packed with the hyper-stylized fashions of todays nail-biters. High-Potential Resulting In Average Results; See This but expect nothing more than average - and a less-effective result than cinema's former master Alfred Hitchcock.Read full review
A decent much movie with Shia from Transformers pretty much dominating the camera. The opening scene shows a father and son on a fishing expedition with a few warm bonding moments which is s set up for a spectacular crash scene they are involved in. The father dies. The story shoots to one year later where the boy, still affected my the death of his father, comes to blows up a crass teacher. This is the basis of our hero being placed on a tether and hence leads him to discover some unnatural goings-on next door, not just the killer but also a girl he quickly becomes attracted to. Of course the ending wraps up with the just revenge on the killer, the boy getting the girl, and the tether coming off for his heroism. Cut and dry, no frills just pure acting talent of Shia. Definitely worth watching once, not too much for me to want to see again however so for it to be a keeper for me is out. I did like the film!!Read full review
When I received Disturbia in the mail I was excited. I hadn't watched the movie yet and had heard good things about it. This was the first Blu-ray I had the opportunity to watch on my new 1080p Lcd Tv and I wasn't dissapointed at all. The picture on this movie was outstanding. The colors popped vividly and for it being mostly a non action movie. The sound rocked. This movie had a nice storyline to it and surpassed my expectations. So this is definitly recommended for the thriller type movie fan. With the pictue, sound, and overall movie itself it would be a good pickup for anyone.
This is a great movie, because it isnt the typical horror movie where everyone gets killed and guts with blood are splattered everywhere and so on. Disturbia gives you a little bit of everything and keeps you on the edge of your seat in my opinion. This movie is suspenseful and action packed at the same time. I would really recommend this movie to anyone who is looking for something different than the typical scary movie like I said and now even better when you can watch it in high definition!
This is one of those movies whem you start watching it and you think"Well,this is going to be boring" WRONG ! As the story begins a young mans finds himself under house arrest because of multiple behavorial problems since the death of his father.They were very close and the son felt some guilt.(Can't say to much about that )During his confinement in his happy domain he finds himself occupying his time learning the tricks and the trade of a young voyeuor.Watching all the neighbors from the secretly of his house windows through binoculars. The slow and dreamy parts ,as he lusts after the new girl next door. But that is when the action begins and it's not with the girl.At this point the creepiness gently begins and rises and remains so until the deffinently shocking last half. Great movie !
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