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The Lodger

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The Lodger (2009)

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Reviews Counted:3

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Rotten:3

Average Rating:2.5/10

Consensus: An accomplished cast can't save a derivative suspense flick that manages to confuse and bore rather than thrill.

Runtime: 1 hr 35 mins

Genre: Horror/Suspense

Synopsis: The tale that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's THE LODGER gets a modern sheen in this thriller that features a star-filled cast. Hope Davis plays a woman who takes on a mysterious lodger (Simon Baker),... The tale that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's THE LODGER gets a modern sheen in this thriller that features a star-filled cast. Hope Davis plays a woman who takes on a mysterious lodger (Simon Baker), even as a serial killer is turning West Hollywood into a graveyard. But the murders aren't simple slices and dices; the killer is recreating the work of history's most famous killer: Jack the Ripper. Shane West and Alfred Molina also star as detectives investigating the string of gruesome crimes. [More]

Starring: Simon Baker, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West

Starring: Simon Baker, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West, Donal Logue, Philip Baker Hall, Rachael Leigh Cook

Director: David Ondaatje

Director: David Ondaatje
Screenwriter: David Ondaatje
Producer: Michael Mailer, David Ondaatje
Composer: John Frizzell
Studio: Stage 6 Releasing

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This strained, empty effort doesn't work as homage or update, and in its darkly violent sensibility has neither the glamour of Brian De Palma's referential nightmares or even the narrative fuel of the serial-killer-obsessed procedurals that dominate tv.

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01/23/09
Robert Abele
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What needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start.

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01/23/09
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The Lodger is a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both.

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01/23/09
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February 13, 2009: The director playfully taunts with the copycat notion of a little of Jack The Ripper in any man, in this flashy when not murky copycat thriller, and those particular unhealthy fixations manifested in varying degrees on both sides of the law. Opens in new window
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February 06, 2009: The director playfully taunts with the copycat notion of a little of Jack The Ripper in any man, in this flashy when not murky copycat thriller, and those particular unhealthy fixations manifested in varying degrees on both sides of the law. Opens in new window
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January 30, 2009: The director playfully taunts with the copycat notion of a little of Jack The Ripper in any man, in this flashy when not murky copycat thriller, and those particular unhealthy fixations manifested in varying degrees on both sides of the law. Opens in new window
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