Vidas ajenas

Hay cero aura alrededor del asesino, la película funciona a medias entre los personajes, hay menos tensión que setas en el desierto, y el desenlace sorpresa es una cagada autoparódica de proporciones de thriller de clase B. Por no hablar del «final» de la película, que quizá los cineastas ni siquiera tomaron en serio. La lluvia ocasional y los rostros tibios de todos los presentes crean la sensación de un mundo frío y malvado, pero la música suavemente exótica de Philip Glass no abunda en el más mínimo misterio y oscuridad. No encaja en absoluto con la película. El seguimiento propiamente dicho del asesino, que abarca dos tercios de la película, carece de ideas de guión, sin una sensación creciente de encierro. Contiene dos visitas «con linternas» a lugares oscuros con sustos decentes, pero la fuerza de estos sustos es directamente proporcional a su inutilidad. Te asustas, pero cuando piensas en lo que pasó, está mal. D.J. Caruso en su anterior drama The Salton Sea mostró un sentido de la forma perfecto que no aplica aquí. (25.04.2004)

I don't understand how Caruso managed to become a laid-back hitmaker like Disturbia based on this unsuccessful mess. Angie plays her role well, Hawke excels, and a great cameo in the middle of the film briefly stirs things up, but a thriller without suspense? An action movie with only one chase scene? A psychological crime story without a hint of atmosphere? I'm not interested. Especially since the killer's identity is so obvious that I almost didn't want to believe that I hadn't misjudged it. (17.05.2008)

In the end, it turned out exactly as I expected (and man how those glasses suited him at the end!). But that's fine with me, sometimes movies just turn out the way you think they will. The worst was the lame dialogue. Having the most perfect heroine (Jolie didn't show anything new, it was all old, hackneyed, and bad; all she showed were her tits...) didn't add to the beauty of it either, she was the one who pissed me off the most. All in all, I was thinking this was a movie for the garbage rating. I only gave it a single star for the few moments when I didn't roll my eyes and tell myself the heroine needed to die (after all, she wasn't in the scene most of the time...). (09.12.2010)

A relatively solidly directed film with a few solid twists and turns, an attractive Angelina Jolie, and nothing more we haven't seen elsewhere. (23.04.2004)

This was a huge disappointment. After the first scene, one is excited because it could be something truly good, thrilling, but the tension quickly disappears because the viewer immediately realizes who they are actually looking for. Even the twist at the end, which was equally transparent, doesn't change that. Only the naked Angelina brought it up to those few percent. (11.01.2015)