Disturbia
Dir: D. J. Caruso
2007
**
Disturbia not only possesses what is possibly one of the worst titles for a film ever but is also a remake of an Alfred Hitchcock classic, Rear Window. Starring Shia LaBeouf! Not only does it sound like sacrilege, it sounds awful too. It is sacrilege but it as awful as all that. The character development was acceptable and the contemporary version of the story works well, but it is still stuck in a moronic Hollywood way of thinking. Shia LaBeouf's character is a troubled youth who is under house arrest for getting up to no good. My question is why couldn't he have just been a nasty kid, why the pointless Dead Father back story to justify his situation? Are we the audience so fickle that we wouldn't accept a story where the 'hero' is just a bad kid rather than a good kid with issues? That kind of thing bothers me, but whatever, the film soon descends into silliness anyway and turned out a little more like 'The Burbs' rather than Rear Window and not in a good way either. It was much better than I was expecting but I was expecting it to be terrible.