The Watcher (Blu-ray) R

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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 37 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region A
  • Released: February 19, 2019
  • Originally Released: 2019
  • Label: Universal Studios

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 21,597
Rating: 2/4 -- You can't buy Keanu as a sadist, but you do worry about the guys who wrote the screenplay.
Globe and Mail
Apr 25, 2003
Rating: D -- One of the lamest serial killer thrillers of the post-Silence of the Lambs era. Full Review
Lessons of Darkness
May 5, 2005
...Meticulously crafted....Intelligently plotted and well-acted by James Spader, Keanu Reeves and Marisa Tomei...
Los Angeles Times
Sep 8, 2000
Rating: 6/10 -- Not half bad as a rental. Full Review
Supercala.com
Sep 23, 2006
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.' Full Review
Salon.com
Jan 1, 2000
Rating: 1/5 -- The most fun you can have with this insultingly formulaic and utterly predictable film is trying to guess which cliché will be next. Full Review
BBC.com
Apr 17, 2001
Rating: 2/5 -- Tired plot and disastrous casting. Full Review
Common Sense Media
Dec 29, 2010

Product Description:

A stylish thriller that recalls David Fincher's SEVEN, THE WATCHER is set in the urban landscape of modern Chicago. The story follows Los Angeles transplant Joel Campbell (James Spader), an ex-police detective who has relocated to Chicago in order to escape his past. It appears that a dangerous serial killer, David Allen Griffin (Keanu Reeves), has formed a special emotional attachment to Campbell, luring him to Chicago in order to continue their deadly game of cat-and-mouse. Each game commences when Griffin sends Campbell a picture of a young girl, giving Campbell 24 hours to track her down before she's murdered. After three tragic failures, the stakes are upped when Griffin kidnaps Campbell's beautiful psychiatrist, Polly (Marisa Tomei), mimicking an earlier event that drove Campbell to Chicago in the first place.

THE WATCHER is a commentary on modern society's effect on people: making them crudely unable to notice the peripheral people in their daily lives. First-time director Joe Charbanic shoots his film like a music video, using elliptical editing, slow motion, and a postindustrial soundtrack that greatly reflects the Chicago music scene. As the tortured detective, Spader possesses an internal fire that gradually builds in intensity as the film progresses.

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  • UPC: 191329092385
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