Disturbia mini review
I gotta say, I thought this movie was great! I have become a big fan of Shia LaBeouf in some of his recent movies (The Greatest Game Ever Played, for example), and he definitely shines in this one! He has this amazing ability to display such range of emotion, humor, and vulnerability with such maturity and flexibility it belies his age. But then, he can show the
type of carefree and jovial personality that you would expect from someone his age. There is one amazingly tense scene where he shows such passionate and vulnerable emotions with only his eyes and the trembling of the muscles of his mouth (I won't spoil the scene for you)... He shows more emotion in that one scene than some actors (*cough*Keanu Reeves*cough*) show in
their entire careers...LOL
Anyway, I thought the movie was very well done and tense. It has been described as an updated teen-focused Alfred Hitchcock movie, and I would have to agree with that assessment. It has none of the slasher crap that most movies of this type have these days, where the only thing they try to do is constantly one-up each other with increasingly graphic and gory and bizarre killings. This movie shows no nudity (though close to it once), has very little language, and only typical teen hormone rages. Imagine if John Hughes did a horror movie... yep, high school angst combined with love story combined with tension, fear, and a serial killer. It was a really interesting blend of a lot of stuff and it all came off pretty well (though Shia's sidekick in the movie, Ronnie [played by Aaron Yoo], came off as out of his class when placed in with the rest of the cast). Props go to David Morse too. He has that uncanny ability as an actor to come off as polite, humble, unassuming, sinister, and simmeringly evil all at the same time. Some of his one on one interactions with Shia's (Kane) and Sarah Roemer's (Ashley) characters were WAYYY tense.
The movie had me on the edge of my seat for several scenes, and the acting (particularly by Shia and David) was top notch. All of this without the usual needless nudity and language typical of today's movies. All in all I HIGHLY recommend Disturbia.
type of carefree and jovial personality that you would expect from someone his age. There is one amazingly tense scene where he shows such passionate and vulnerable emotions with only his eyes and the trembling of the muscles of his mouth (I won't spoil the scene for you)... He shows more emotion in that one scene than some actors (*cough*Keanu Reeves*cough*) show in
their entire careers...LOL
Anyway, I thought the movie was very well done and tense. It has been described as an updated teen-focused Alfred Hitchcock movie, and I would have to agree with that assessment. It has none of the slasher crap that most movies of this type have these days, where the only thing they try to do is constantly one-up each other with increasingly graphic and gory and bizarre killings. This movie shows no nudity (though close to it once), has very little language, and only typical teen hormone rages. Imagine if John Hughes did a horror movie... yep, high school angst combined with love story combined with tension, fear, and a serial killer. It was a really interesting blend of a lot of stuff and it all came off pretty well (though Shia's sidekick in the movie, Ronnie [played by Aaron Yoo], came off as out of his class when placed in with the rest of the cast). Props go to David Morse too. He has that uncanny ability as an actor to come off as polite, humble, unassuming, sinister, and simmeringly evil all at the same time. Some of his one on one interactions with Shia's (Kane) and Sarah Roemer's (Ashley) characters were WAYYY tense.
The movie had me on the edge of my seat for several scenes, and the acting (particularly by Shia and David) was top notch. All of this without the usual needless nudity and language typical of today's movies. All in all I HIGHLY recommend Disturbia.
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