Tired plot and disastrous casting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2010

One of the lamest serial killer thrillers of the post-Silence of the Lambs era.

| Original Score: D | May 4, 2005

You can't buy Keanu as a sadist, but you do worry about the guys who wrote the screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2003

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 12, 2001

The most fun you can have with this insultingly formulaic and utterly predictable film is trying to guess which clich will be next.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 17, 2001

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 21, 2001

We can't ignore the lack of anything resembling substance or purpose in The Watcher.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The movie is called The Watcher and, let me tell you, it's something no one should watch. Not this weekend. Not on video. Not in this lifetime.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

Exactly the kind of movie you might happen upon while watching Cinemax in your hotel room and think, 'This'll do till Conan comes on.'

| Jan 1, 2000

A depressing state of affairs.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The Watcher is a numbingly familiar exercise in fear, disgorging regular doses of grisly violence buoyed by precious little plot and pitifully thin character development.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

The thinking is, if faced with a dead sequence in the editing room, flood it with light, or break it up with jump cuts, or leech the color out, or blur the image in some arty way. Whatever. It still looks dead.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

[Keanu's] line readings, aiming for a mixture of suavity and creepiness, just sound silly.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 1, 2000

While intelligently plotted and well-acted by James Spader, Keanu Reeves and Marisa Tomei, it is neither acutely suspenseful nor particularly thrilling but instead mainly numbing.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 1, 2000

To borrow a phrase from another Chicagoan, John Belushi, The Watcher is a 'but nooooo' movie.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

He likes to watch, but you might not.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

There is not a single original thought in The Watcher, but as these things go, it's not awful.

| Jan 1, 2000

Has 'direct to video' stamped all over it.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

It's a mystery why anybody -- the director, the cast -- would want to devote a significant chunk of their lives to this murky tale.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000

First-time director Joe Charbanic seems to have watched too many music videos.

Full Review | Jan 1, 2000