Watcher Reviews
It's just a waste of time. You'll watch the movie thinking exactly how it's going to happen and then it happens. You'll constantly look at the time wondering if something will happen and it just doesn't and fails. The actors are decent but the lines are just so far fetched it's hard to belive most of what's happening. The ending is super cliché and honestly not believable Don't watch save your time
Apología a sobrepensar. Un ritmo aburridisimo con una trama que sorprende de lo tonta que es
Omg that was so painful. Maika is gorgeous. The cinematography is too - nice colors and lighting and angles and all that. Good camera positioning - none of that unnecessary movement. The villain guy is playing his typical villain role. The husband is playing the typical “babe you’re imagining things” role. The movie is equal parts silence, Romanian, and English. It feels like a whole bunch of nothing happens for the longest time. The protagonist suspects her neighbor across the street of spying on her / creeping on her and she works to find out whether the person that’s been following her on the street is the same person as the one from the window across the street. I wish she’d just left to go back to America. But ofc she doesn’t and well let’s just say that in the end she
My favorite genre of movies is thilller/suspense and I found this movie very lacking. I was bored all the way through it with the onotone movements and tones, plot was boring, no twists or turns or any excitement. Typical movie plot where the woman is made to be so dumb that she is wandering into dark alleys along and into abandoned buildings without any back up or protections, going to his apartment alone, a woman who can't form a cohesive thought or plan such as taking pictures, recording him, closing the curtains and quit letting him look at you and see you looking back, carry a weapon, to the point it gets where I have switched sides and am wanting the killer to get rid of her to put her and those of us watching out of her "stupid" misery. I was worried about her acting in this movie considering how she played in Longlegs which was a terrible movie. She failed to really surprise me as her lack of emotions and zombie like standing and staring appearance and monotone voice throughout was the same way (but even worse) when she played in Longlegs. No excitement, no suspense, no twists, nothing. What might have been exciting was if they had made her (us) think it was the weirdo across the street when all along the killer was her husband. On the last subway ride, it shows her looking at the bag he held and all of my family noticed what looked like a head. Though she stares at it and rushed off the subway immediately after, she is oblivioius? Then when she hears loud music in the next door neightbor's apartment, though she knows she has gone missing, she rushes right over there alone. BORING, STUPID, UNREALISTIC, The screenwriters suck!!!!
Psychologically brilliant. I totally immersed to the mind of the main character and felt the suspension in my bones.
I enjoyed a lot the suspense and the twists that keeps wanting more. And Julia, poor woman, alone on another country and with a husband that is an idioit, she deserved better than Francis
The subtle character of being in a foreign country not knowing the language plays a key roll in this thriller. Slow at first, but not boring. Good movie.
Good production values, decent enough acting, and that's about it. "Plot" is whisper thin, woefully undeveloped characters undertake desperately dumb actions, preposterous coincidences, a garden-variety, two-dimensional asshole husband, and no good use of the Romanian setting. Don't waste your time.
It was fairly interesting until the end. The ending ruined it. It was absurd and very phony. Big waste of time.
This was one of the worst movies I’ve watched in a while. Description makes it sound as though will be suspenseful and it never lives up to that. The ending was clear to anyone with an IQ above 60 and the fact that she had two pints of blood on the floor but managed to muster enough strength to shoot a gun is either ridiculous or insulting. Wife wanted to turn off with 26 minutes left but I’m a glutton for punishment.
Very predictable and usual story of no one believing the potential victim until too late.
If you can view this film from the perspective of the protagonist, you can understand our modern society
Muito bem dirigido. A atuação de Julia é ótima, bem como do perseguidor. A fotografia e montagem ajudam a causar o suspense. O fim demonstra o quanto as mulheres entendem o seu ambiente e que não precisam de príncipes para serem salvas.
The ending beats the purpose of the movie...who has the strength after enduring the injuries she did... otherwise it was okay...the ending beats the logic the movie created the whole way through
Outrageous waste of time! Can't stand movies where you have to continuously suspend your disbelief about mundane things. In this case it happens from minute one thru the end. Spoilers ahead--with many examples of what I mean. (1) Married couple moves to Romania. The wife doesn't speak Romanian. But has she studied up before? No. Does she sign up for a class in Bucharest once they're there? No. She listens halfheartedly to advanced Romanian in her phone and sighs. (2) The first night she wakes up and a man across the street is staring in their bedroom window--she stares back--gets in bed and snuggles with her now-awake husband but says nothing--doesn't even pull the covers over herself with her booty sticking out in underwear, knowing a creeper is watching--why do they not have heavy curtains on the windows as would anybody in a city apartment on a brightly lit street? the apartment is furnished with literally everything but that one thing. (3) No one would move to brand new country and start a new job literally the next day--but of course the husband does and wife has no one to explore the city or get acclimated with. (4) She sits around all day sulking, wearing only a shirt with no pants, sulking and looking into the distance. (5) Apparently no friends or family to be in contact with, no social media, no interests, etc.--completely all alone, isolated, and of course (6) her husband works all the time because his boss accuses him of underperforming despite his moving to Romania 2 days before-------after the company paid for an international move. (7) On their 3rd night there, the wife is expected to throw a dinner party for the guy's coworkers where everyone ignores her. (8) The next afternoon she goes to a movie theatre to see a Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn film (inexplicably without Romanian dubbing or subtltles) and a nasty-looking man majorly creeps on her but she doesn't report it to the theatre employees but simply runs out of the theatre--whereupon he follows her into a supermarket and she has to escape out the back door--does she tell her the supermarket employee she's being followed? Does she tell her husband what happened? No...just makes a vague reference to her husband without mentioning the creep preyed on her in the theatre and left the theatre and pursued her. (9) By their 4th night the husband is so stressed and behind at work says he has to be at his office until midnight. You have to accept all of the above, just in the first 20 minutes. It's possible all this could happen, but most people would agree a couple moving abroad would spend some time getting the lay of the land and the guy would be helping his wife find a way to spend her days so that she'd get the most out of the experience. Instead, of course, the husband is made out not to be clueless or an AH but a super nice guy. Even when accusing her of going crazy and tries to "talk sense" that the man lives in the same neighborhood so of course he would be looking at her through the window and following her around--that's normal. And of course she utters the requisite "I think I'm losing my mind! I don't know what's real anymore." And naturally she follows the creeper man into an abandoned building down a dark dripping alleyway and ends up at an S&M club...which of course turns out where her friendly but weird next door neighbor happens to be a stripper and the creeper happens to be a janitor, And of course the predator contacts the police and says SHE has been preying on him and of course the police believe him---and force them to shake hands with one another and "forget the whole thing." And when she persists in being upset, and goes off the rails, knocking over a tray of champagne and screaming at an upscale work cocktail reception, of course the husband declares "I can't go on like this. I'm so very tired. You're ruining things because you can't let go of some paranoid fantasy." The actress is not an actress but apparently someone who has spent most of her life looking pretty when frowning and staring at the floor or vacantly out windows. Totally nonsensical ending. Ridiculous!
i understand that the lack of romanian subtitles was intentional, but the film would be much better with some of them provided for the audience, or even just with full subtitles. how it sits currently, i have to find a subtitle file made by the audience for lines that might end up just being pointless ad libs. perhaps if the protagonist were gradually learning the romanian and understood a few words earlier on, and the subtitles were creatively applied based on what she might think they are saying, this whole gimmick would be more effective.
This is a small thriller that pays Homage to Alfred Hitchcock in a number of ways. This is affirmed when the star steals off to a modern movie theater to watch Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade. The story involves a young couple's relocation to Romania for his job. The country is not random, as he is Romanian-American. She is not. Therefore, communication and culture are a little cumbersome for her. The story devolves into a thriller when she is certain someone is watching her. Simultaneously, the news is filled with stories of a local serial killer known as The Spider. Could they be one and the same. It is decent. The local of musical score is an interesting choice. There is a lot to like here. Not great, but worth watching.
Watch this movie while on Sherms let’s say it give me creepy vibes all the way through, which is good if that’s what the movie was trying to represent which I think it was.. That boyfriend really got on my nerves man like if men are really like that sheesh, That ending was not expecting that but good movie definitely recommend it
Mediocre movie. Slow burn and mildly thrilling. Plot twist is underwhelming, predictable and too short. However what a performance by Maika Monroe.
Movie for the simple minded. Bad acting, slow moving, very predictable, plagiarized script of Rear Window, and cliche. I finished it, but it was painfully boring. Nothing new to see here except repeat and rinse poor womans version!