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50The actors cannot be faulted. They bring more to the story than it really deserves.
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50Has its compelling moments, and its playfully inventive ones, too.
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50It's still the same sick story. Even the small touches seem stale.
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50This thriller largely succeeds in putting quotation marks around its use of genre conventions, mixing subtlety and overkill to create a pensive mood that transcends the plot.
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50What distinguishes The Watcher from all the films it consciously or unconsciously emulates is the intermittently witty, offbeat writing of debuting screenwriter David Elliot.
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42Reeves is a stiff dancer and he delivers his lines in a full leather jacket monotone.
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41The satisfaction of watching it essentially boils down to seeing whether or not Reeves can pull it off.
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40If Reeves weren't onboard this picture would have gone straight to video.
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40Leaves me wanting to watch Tomei and company in something more worthy of their abilities.
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38Sluggish and preposterous, full of violence and cliches.
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38Isn't even worth a glance.
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30Once the terror ends and the credits roll, we finally get to the best part: a merciful escape.
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25The picture's real interest lies in detailing the villain's sadistic crimes, though, and this is rarely fun or edifying to watch.
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25The movie is paint-by-numbers with several numbers skipped.
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25A crass, mechanical attempt at a thriller that should have gone straight to video.
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25A hodgepodge of half-baked visual styles can't disguise the fact that this dismal thriller is all situation and no story.
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25A story about unmotivated characters trapped in an ill-conceived plot.
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25It's lively but fails to disguise the fact that his (Charbanic) script is a dud and his career in videos has taught him little about the art of narrative storytelling.
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20It stinks pretty bad, but not so bad you'd go out of your way to avoid it.
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20Fails to fulfill.
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Sidesteps any juicy subtext in favor of routine chase-movie thrills.
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20Neither acutely suspenseful nor particularly thrilling but instead mainly numbing.
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20Emerges as a formulaic thriller that plays more like direct-to-video fare than a megaplex-worthy feature.
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15An uninspired, standard-issue mimeo whose only distinguishing feature is a reversal in its casting.
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10A dismal new serial-killer thing.
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10By the end of The Watcher you'll need your own prescription.
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10It's something no one should watch.
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0A shockingly, unbelievably bad movie.
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Negative: 3 out of 8
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FelixC.1Too easy to predict. Keanu Reaves cannot play a bad guy, he doesn't scare me.
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R.L.9An extremely entertaining cat&mouse thriller that will have you guessing at every turn.
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RodG.6This movie was okay. It got 28 reviews from critics. Critics are like weathermen. They're almost always wrong.