This occasionally amusing thriller will probably not be Shia’s best-remembered moment, but it is worth a peep.
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09/14/07
Disturbia (2007)
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Reviews Counted:166
Fresh:112
Rotten:54
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Aside from its clichéd resolution, Disturbia is a tense, subtle thriller with a noteworthy performance from Shia LaBeouf.
Rated: 15 [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr 44 mins 24 secs
Genre: Thriller, Murder, Murder Mysteries, Teenage, Theatrical Release
Theatrical Release:14-09-2007
Synopsis: Shia LaBeouf (CONSTANTINE, I, ROBOT) is a young talent to be reckoned with, as he demonstrates in this genre-spanning film from director D.J. Caruso. Part teenage romantic comedy, part horror... [More]
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer, David Morse, Carrie-Anne Moss
Director: D.J. Caruso
Reviews for Disturbia
Not quite Rear Window, but can certainly hold its own with The 'Burbs.
09/14/07
Disturbia goes through the Hitchcockian motions with great skill and good humour - but among the many pleasures it has to offer its viewers, there are few real surprises.
09/06/07
Top CriticCaruso's no Hitchcock, and Disturbia is not as original, suspense-filled or well-acted as the James Stewart-Grace Kelly masterpiece, but for its predominantly male, teenage audience it delivers enough shocks to be entertaining.
09/14/07
Disturbia's limits are those of its hero - an amiable, faintly clueless young man with a brief attention span.
09/14/07
Top CriticThe teen support cast are vacuous and director DJ Caruso strays a little too far into Grand Guignol territory for the over-extended climax, but Disturbia’s otherwise bang on the money: $80m at the US box-office was no fluke.
09/14/07
Smartly directed thriller with a witty script, a great performance from Shia LaBeouf and some hugely enjoyable suspense scenes.
09/13/07
You’ll jump as if you’ve had electrodes attached to your sensitive parts; but when your nerve endings stop tingling, your brain won’t remember a thing.
06/23/07
Top CriticTake an Alfred Hitchcock classic, remix it for generation youtube and you've got Disturbia, a smart and involving thriller about the perils of voyeurism.
09/11/07
Top CriticEven though the story goes bonkers at the end, this teen thriller keeps us entertained--and on the edge of our seats.
08/02/07
DJ Caruso's neat little thriller won't win any awards for originality (Hitch will be spinning six feet under) but it does work surprisingly well bearing in mind you can almost second guess every plot twist.
09/14/07
Entertaining Hitchcock-lite for a generation that would rather dial P for pizza than M for murder.
09/11/07
Top CriticHitchcock would turn in his grave.
09/14/07
Take along a good book – possibly Ted Lewis’s The Serpent – and read it by the light of the effulgent clichés.
09/14/07
Despite the interesting set-up, the action degenerates into obvious implausibility and silliness - fatal for a suspense thriller - and boredom sets in.
09/14/07
Top CriticA limp teenage by-the-numbers version of Rear Window.
09/22/07
Instead of manufacturing elaborate, ridiculous plot twists or imposing overwrought psychological melodrama on a basically absurd premise [director] Caruso and the screenwriters opt for efficient, clever B-movie execution.
04/13/07
Top CriticDespite the foolishness, and despite the patent knockoffs of Rear Window and American Beauty, Disturbia is a likable little thriller.
04/13/07
Writers Christopher B. Landon and Carl Ellsworth (RED EYE), and director D. J. Caruso have avoided the trap of trying to remake Hitchcock's classic [REAR WINDOW]. Rather, this is a deft re-imagining of the premise.
04/13/07
Disturbia is disturbingly contemporary in its celebration of the technology that can make us all potential victims of the full-time snoops among us.
04/11/07
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