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Disturbia

EMAILPRINTParamount Pictures / DreamWorks SKG

Disturbia reviews
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6.7 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 28 critic reviews
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Movie Info

Genre(s): Suspense/Thriller

Written by: Christopher B. Landon (also story)
Carl Ellsworth

Directed by: D.J. Caruso

Release Date:
Theatrical: April 11, 2007
DVD: August 7, 2007

Running Time: 104 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: PG-13 on appeal for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality

Starring Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Matt Craven

Two teens begin to suspect that one of their neighbors is a serial killer. Are their suspicions merely the product of cabin fever and vivid imagination? Or have they unwittingly stumbled across a crime that could cost them their lives? (Paramount Pictures)

What The Critics Said

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83

Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow

The Breakfast Club meets Rear Window. The result should satisfy dating crowds from high school to night school.

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80

The Hollywood Reporter John DeFore

There's plenty to ensure fresh jolts for viewers who know Hitch's tricks inside out, to say nothing of young moviegoers who don't know Grace Kelly from Thelma Ritter.

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80

New York Magazine David Edelstein

One way you know that D.J. Caruso is a resourceful director is that he scares you silly with a minimum of violence and a few smears of blood. His job was certainly made easier by Morse, whose glassy demeanor and high, soft rasp suggests horrors that not even Quentin Tarantino could imagine.

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75

Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer

The bloody wrap-up isn't handled especially well, and I must confess that the most shocking thing about the movie was the casting of Carrie-Anne Moss as a suburban mom. I kept expecting her "Matrix" skills to show up in the final reel.

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75

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Cool stuff. Cool movie.

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75

USA Today Claudia Puig

Though it's not likely to become a classic like the Hitchcock film, it's a smart and well-acted teen thriller that serves up some lively scares.

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Morse, with his hulking frame, baby face and soft voice, has probably done too many of these villain roles for his own good. But how could you avoid casting him when he manages to present someone who's screamingly insane in the mildest, most pleasant way?

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75

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

What Disturbia lacks in complexity, it makes up for in witty jokes, sneaky jolts and a timeless lesson: If you've got windows, someone's always watching.

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75

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

At a certain point, movies like Disturbia require suspension of belief. To its credit, that moment comes much later in the game than usual. Up until then, like "Rear Window" before it, Disturbia is sly and suspenseful and full of mounting dread.

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75

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

Caruso, a very visual director, serves up some surprises and scares, and he's paced his movie briskly. You're out of this disturbing suburbia before you know it, shaken and even stirred.

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75

The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson

Once the plot finally kicks into gear, director D.J. Caruso (Taking Lives) effectively cranks up the tension.

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75

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

The battery of startling shock cuts can get repetitive and the plot has a few potholes, but the palpable atmosphere of vulnerability keeps the drama knotted in tension and the audience rooted to the teens in peril.

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70

Film Threat Zach Haddad

It did a great job of giving chills and making me jump. It may not be the most original film out there, but which ones out there today are completely original anyways?

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70

The New York Times A.O. Scott

There are no big surprises, but the jumps and jolts are well timed and the overall mood is at once grisly and good-natured -- more diverting than disturbing.

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70

Variety Justin Chang

Squirmingly fun suspenser that brings Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" into the era of vidcams and cell phones, serving up hearty, youth-skewing portions of PG-13 violence and bikini-bait along the way.

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67

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

If it's possible to be a rip-off with wit, Disturbia qualifies.

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63

ReelViews James Berardinelli

A nice little mystery thriller that takes a wrong turn on the way to its climax and morphs into a slasher movie.

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63

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Does so many things right that it's a shame to see it sink into horror-movie cliches.

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63

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Instead of leaving you lamenting the lack of creativity and originality in the film industry, this modest, playful thriller puts you in a forgiving mood.

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60

Village Voice Robert Wilonsky

There's not one single bombshell dropped in Disturbia; everyone is exactly who you think they are and does exactly what you think they'll do precisely when you think they'll do it.

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60

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

The most disturbious part of Disturbia is how engaging this teenage thriller manages to be, even though it's a shameless rip-off of "Rear Window."

50

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

If you're happy to watch a thriller about a tenth as good as Alfred Hitchcock's, director D.J. Caruso and screenwriters Christopher B. Landon and Carl Ellsworth hold up their end of the deal, at least until the proceedings devolve into standard horror-movie effects and minimal motivations.

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50

New York Post Lou Lumenick

There are a few decent jolts in Disturbia, but overall this ultra-predictable thriller doesn't live up to the hype.

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50

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

Up-and-comer LaBeouf (Holes) is a young actor to watch, but he's had better opportunities than this teen thriller to show what he's capable of.

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50

Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington

For all its glitz and gadgets, is markedly inferior in everything but teen appeal.

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50

Washington Post John Maynard

LaBeouf is appealing as the frustrated shut-in, and comic-relief cred goes to Aaron Yoo, who plays his neurotic buddy Ronnie. The ending, though, drags, and the film quickly shifts from a clever homage to "Rear Window" to a bad parody of "The Silence of the Lambs."

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50

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

"Rear Window" never comes up in the Disturbia press notes, which is probably just as well since it steals that movie's premise but none of Alfred Hitchcock's wit, finesse, or seduction.

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40

Los Angeles Times Dennis Lim

What the new movie lacks in craft, suspense and metaphoric richness it makes up for with, um, gadgets.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.7 (out of 10) based on 88 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Gabor A. gave it a3:
Tries the trick of having a slow buildup to try to fool some critics into thinking this movie has characters. But in the end instead of going from stupid to more stupid like its genre neighbors it simply goes from boring to stupid.

Michael R. gave it an8:
Even though its pg-13 it was a great horror movie.Shia does a great job acting and the serial killer in the movie was very convincing.Its not predictable at all.

Peter W. gave it a0:
A predictable mash-up of Rear Windows and Silence of the Lambs.

Brian M gave it a10:
Brilliant film, but the tension could've been cranked up another couple of notches if it had been longer. Normally I'd give it an 8, but there's far too many people on here giving it ridiculously low scores, so I'll give it a high one.

Robbie B. gave it a10:
A great thriller, Shia LaBeouf is fantastic!!

brother T gave it a1:
Absolutely diabolical. I saw it for free and I still think I was ripped-off.

Peter J. gave it a6:
Good movie. Nothing more, nothing less. The chick in the movie kept me watching :)

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