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The basic premise of both stories is that a person is confined to his home and takes up voyeurism to pass the summer days, only to discover that his neighbor might be a murderer. In Hitchcock’s film, this character was a grown adult with a cast on his leg. In this movie, it is a young teen who is on house arrest. “Disturbia” starts out really strong by opening with a sensitive father-son scene that puts the audience in a vulnerable, sensitive emotional state. It’s all warm and fuzzy, you know. Then we get shocked when the scene takes an unexpected turn of events. I have to give credit because this formula often fails. It worked well in this film. As we get into the film, the plot does get pretty intense at times, and I did find myself genuinely scared. But I felt the movie fell apart in the final scenes, which are supposed to be the meat of any thriller. I get soooo tired of the same old tricks that film-makers play on audiences. Have a chase scene with lots of yelling, kicking, and screaming. Break down some doors, shake the camera up, create a lot of quick angles that make your head spin… all to the give the illusion that something wild and scary is happening. I feel like movies are dumbed down when they do that. Sure, it does give you a quick rush of adrenaline. But that quickly wears off and after the film is over, there isn’t anything of substance left that really makes you afraid to go to sleep at night… other than motion sickness. So all in all, I felt “Disturbia” was only mediocre. It’s marketed as a film for adults, but I would say it’s better for teenagers. I just feel that most adults will be too sophisticated to fall for the same-old tricks. 
I hate that kind of choppy camera work. They do that in all the Bourne Identity movies to cover up the fact that nothing’s happening. The better the movie, the less the camera moves, as a rule. Posted by DEL on Sat, Aug 11, 2007 @ 2:21 am I was convinced his friend who snuck into his neighbour’s house was murdered. That scene was SO intense that I could hardly breathe. Posted by enihsnus on Sat, Aug 11, 2007 @ 7:58 am Leave a comment
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It’s rare that I comment on a movie, but I did feel compelled to write about “Disturbia” due to the constant comparisons to Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 classic “Rear Window”. The DVD of “Disturbia” came out this past Tuesday.
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