Really?
This movie is a complete waste of time. The premise sounded interesting, but the plot leaves you utterly unsatisfied. The so-much-wished-and hoped-for twist, like e.g. the "good neighbor" himself turning into the prankster or something of the like, it never comes.
Instead, we get
A real confirmation for my feeling that movies from around 2005 and later with high probability suck, despite the names on the cast lists.
This movie is a complete waste of time. The premise sounded interesting, but the plot leaves you utterly unsatisfied. The so-much-wished-and hoped-for twist, like e.g. the "good neighbor" himself turning into the prankster or something of the like, it never comes.
Instead, we get
- a foreseeable plot, no real twists;
- boredom to the extreme, with endless pointless conversations between typical 2016 teenage boys;
- extremely, and I mean EXTREMELY unlikable lead characters, i.e. said boys;
- hours of utter stupidity: Main character carries a gun when entering the neighbor's house to fix a camera... I mean, really;
- most annoying of all: A movie that only for a very short amount of time takes advantage of the entire screen estate; mostly we see a small box with black stripes not only at top and bottom, no, but also left and right. OK, we get it, it's the image of a camera, but wouldn't the text on the screen suffice to explain that?!
- a fantastic James Caan, who does his best to save this wreck from sinking - albeit unsuccessfully.
A real confirmation for my feeling that movies from around 2005 and later with high probability suck, despite the names on the cast lists.