Plenty of credit is due to Barbara Curry’s deranged script, set in a suburban fantasyland of doofus bullies, junior proms, and middle-class sex fears; it probably isn’t meant to be a Verhoeven satire, but it sure moves like one.
It offers January moviegoers some guilty-pleasure thrills and laughs, while falling way short of its potential on both the dramatic and the camp fronts.
A limp psychosexual thriller that takes a promisingly trashy conceit... and does absolutely nothing with it, and saddles it with wooden performances, poor staging, and a complete lack of conviction. It reaches a nearly operatic level of ineptitude.
Great thriller!! Had me on my toes the entire time. J Lo is surprisingly a good actress.!! The ending was not that great but overall movie was awesome!
The movie is somewhat of a joke but for the most part and interesting joke. Yes the acting is not great and it has some cheap thrills but it kept my attention all the way through. Not bad for what it is.
There is no doubt that parts of this film will thrill. Whether that's the story crafted by Barbara Curry or the direction from Rob Cohen. It's not awards-caliber filmmaking, but it's not all bad here. And don't underestimate Jennifer Lopez.
Lehrerin Claire (Jennifer Lopez) flieht vor ihrem untreuen Ehemann ins Bett des blutjungen Nachbarn Noah (Ryan Guzman). Kein Wunder – er sieht flott aus, repariert jeden Motor und zitiert aus dem Stand Homer und Lord Byron. Eine peinliche Bettszene später erkennt die völlig aufgelöste Frau ihren Fehler und verstößt den Jüngling auf Nimmerwiedersehen – daraus wird aber nix. Noah mutiert zum eifersüchtigen Psychopathen, hetzt Claires Sohn gegen sie auf, tapeziert das Klassenzimmer mit kompromittierenden Fotos – und wird schließlich zur tödlichen Bedrohung. Die schwülstige Thematik von The Boy next Door ist ein klares Nicken Richtung Neunziger, doch Rob Cohens Möchtegern-Erotik-Thriller ist prüde, vorhersehbar und mündet im schon jetzt trashigsten Finale des Jahres.
I wasn't even turned on by watching "The Boy Next Door" because there's not enough scares for me to snack on. I would rather watch "The Cell" (easily one of J. Lo's signature thriller) than seeing sexpot Lopez and that guy from "Jem And The Holograms." I really love the sex scenes featured in this movie, but nothing new. I don't know why Fast & The Furious director Rob Cohan directed this turd. It seems as though Hollywood is trying to be obsessed describing as the next "Fatal Attraction." It turns out that formula didn't work either. And that's why Jennifer Lopez' performance is the absolute worst. Just avoid it.