Disturbia (DVD)

The first thing nearly everyone says about Disturbia when they see the trailers is “hey that looks like Rear Window”. The comparison is unavoidable. Rear Window is Hitchcock, and thus the high water mark in peeping tom thrillers. Disturbia star Shia LaBeouf has defended his film against those comparisons by pointing out that there’s room for more than one film in the genre, and he’s right, assuming that his film can bring something new to the table. In fact beyond the surface similarities of a guy sitting at a window with binoculars scoping out a possible killer across the fence, Rear Window and Disturbia really aren’t all that similar. Actually, if you want to compare Disturbia to something, it’s almost exactly like the Tom Hanks comedy The 'Burbs, only without any attempt to be funny and with a bunch of annoying, too-perfect teenagers. It’s like someone took The 'Burbs and cross-bred it with the career of Freddie Prinze Jr. In case you’re wondering, that’s not a good thing. That stuff in the back of your throat is bile. This is the spot where you’re supposed to gag.

Shia LaBeouf plays a trouble teenager named Kale who, after he punches his Spanish teacher, ends up with a bracelet on his leg and under house arrest. If he goes further than 100 feet from his kitchen, the cops show up and drag him off to jail. His mother (Carrie-Anne Moss) decides he’s not going to spend his time having fun, and so she cuts off his video games and terminates his iTunes account, leaving Kale with nothing to do except build forts and stare out a window to watch what his suburbanite neighbours are up to.

Rather than get down to the business of being a thriller right off the bat, most of the movie is spent glamorizing how awesome teenagers are, as incredibly good looking, MTV hip Kale flexes and hangs around with his equally good looking obligatory funny Asian friend and finds ways to ogle and hit on Ashley (Sarah Roemer) the super-hot new girl next door. Kind of makes you long for the days when you were an uber-cool supermodel teenager too doesn’t it? The weird thing is that in the past Shia LaBeouf hasn’t belonged with the perfectly toned bodies and bubbly enhanced breasts of the usual Hollywood teen movie. It’s somewhat disturbing to discover that the slightly nerdy, lovable, everykid child actor may be on the verge of turning into the new Paul Walker.

When not re-enacting beats from Fast Times At Ridgemont High, Disturbia plays a lot like Monster House, with Kale staring out his window at a creepy neighbor and wondering whether or not he might have dead bodies in his garage. Because if you had dead bodies, that’s where you’d keep them… that way your neighbours can see them every time you pull out your car. The movie telegraphs everything long before it does it, and the script is incredibly manipulative. This is a film so desperate to get an emotional response out of you, that it brutally kills a kid’s dad in the first five minutes, for no other reason than to make sure you sympathize with the movie’s lead character later on when he’s stupidly stumbling around the house of a serial killer.

Disturbia was such a great movie! I dont even like scary movies so you know that coming from me it was good! It made me cry in the beginning and the really scary parts, but overall it was really good! Shia LeBeouf is cute and the other characters played their parts really good!

this is a great movie really suspenceful and it has some great shocks in it.
this movie is a must for any fans of the genre
shia lebouf is amazing as kale the young boy who witnesses a murder and discovers that his neighbour is a serial killer and now he knows that kale has seen him he could be next.
all in all i give this movie 9/10
brilliant

Great film, saw it at the cinema first, and liked it so much have just bought the DVD.
Brilliant film with some well known people actors and actresses in it.
Good thriller, full of laughs and suspension.

we was very happy with the dvd .my son has watched it over and over again.
it keep very quick and we was very happy.thanks

I absolutely loved this film. It was scary, sexy, dark and disturbing. Plus how buff is Shia LaBeouff!! Very edge of your seat entertainment. Would definately recommend this film to anyone.

Really good film, has you on the end of your seat in some places wondering whats going to happen next!!
Good acting from Shia Lebouf, nice to see him acting a serious role from his other acting roles such has kids programmes.
I would definetly give it a 9 1/2!!
It is a bit slow at the bigining until it warms up a bit then its excellent.
Would recommend its one to watch if your into your horror films.

This film has it all...empathy, humour and suspense by the truckload. The typical teenage male is captured to perfection making the movie believable without being predictable. No cheap BOO moments, just a beautifully crafted suspense thriller which keeps you hooked right till the end...perfect!