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83Every signifier in this quintessentially American domestic thriller is in satisfying running order.
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75A thriller that presses all the buttons: parental love, childhood terror, fear of Vince Vaughn.
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63A refreshingly unpretentious little thriller.
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63Doesn't make nearly the ripple it could have made.
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60Although decked out with a legitimate star and handsome production carpentry, pic takes no greater interest in creating three-dimensional characters or fleshing out a credible storyline than does the run-of-the-mill straight-to-video thriller.
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58The movie has a suspenseful moment or two, and it's never hard to watch, but it's ultimately one more totally forgettable Hollywood thriller.
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50Travolta, a bit portly (or is it starboardly?), phones in his performance from his place in Maine; Vaughn is ice-cool but not especially convincing; the kid is OK, and Polo is a blank.
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50Does a masterful job of building menace until about halfway through.
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40It's predictable stuff, though with a nice old-fashioned edge.
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38The movie is a paid holiday for its director, Harold Becker. I say this because I know what Becker is capable of.
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38There's almost no reason to see the movie, unless you have no qualms about wasting your time.
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38Why Travolta is slumming in B movies is anybody's guess. (I'll take a wild flier: "Battlefield Earth"?)
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38Anyone who sees this movie is going to be 20 minutes ahead of it, though there won't be that many after Weekend 1. With domestic disturbances, someone calls the cops. With this DOA, someone had better call the coroner.
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38Sttrictly movie-of-the-week stuff. And not very good stuff, at that.
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30The film's subtexts are profoundly reactionary. Women are foolish and untrustworthy.
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25The movie is pure product, and proud of it: There isn't a single surprising moment in all of its 88 minutes, because Domestic Disturbance is designed to stick to tried-and-true formulas, instead of shaking them up a little.
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25Few movies feel quite so perfunctory or needless or pointless as this one.
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20It's likely there's going to be some “viewer disturbance” going on after audiences catch a whiff of this routine and thrill-less suspenser.
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20It's clear from the outset that a thriller is going to be big and dumb -- as opposed to tight and smart.
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20So TV-movie-of-the-week that you wonder throughout why you can't use a remote to find a decent ballgame.
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20Jettisoning any ambition toward thrillerhood, Domestic Disturbance becomes a plodding, obvious angry-dad melodrama, ambling toward the final, fatal showdown between parent and usurper.
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20The script is woefully inept, with plot twists that wouldn't pass muster in a high-school drama class.
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20Travolta is stuck giving a remarkable performance in a film so trivial and offensive its mere existence is as loathsome as it is laughable.
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10The real "disturbance" in Domestic Disturbance is not in the home, but in the careers of all involved.
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10Absurd beyond belief or reason.
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10As the basest form of genre hootenanny, it wimps out: There's no twist, no showboat acting, not even an outrageous crisis of paternal violence.
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10The most surprising thing about the movie is that somebody bothered to make it in the first place.
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Isi10Great movie! Matthew O'leary is such a great actor and he is SOO HOT!