The film's a failure.
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07/24/09
Surveillance (2009)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:38
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: This dark psycho-thriller from Jennifer Lynch, is violent, sharp and baffling, but not to everyone's taste.
Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: It's been a hell of a day on the highway. When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of... [More]
Starring: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Ryan Simpkins
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Reviews for Surveillance
A violent, refreshingly odd mystery.
03/06/09
Surveillance is a crafty crime film with an involving setup and a ridiculous payoff, but there's enough here to make it worth a viewing at least on DVD or cable.
07/03/09
Pullman's striking performance here is undermined by Lynch's overreliance on those same grisly shock tactics, as well as a script that fails to capitalize on a promising premise and then swiftly collapses upon the revelation of a not-so-shocking twist.
07/24/09
Beneath the film's surface appeal as a twisty, morbidly funny freak-out lies a weightier theme on the resilience of children.
05/12/09
The scenes are shot in a clever range of styles, the dialogue is as sharp as a Stanley knife. The atmosphere in the cop shop, where the film closes in for the teased-out development before the recapitulation and surprise coda, is irresistibly seedy.
03/06/09
Jennifer is no David Lynch and her film, while inventive and quirky and at time quite devious, misses the organic alchemy of his films.
08/17/09
Lynch has clearly learned from her father's knack for crafting eerily unsettling movies, although her instincts seem to favor solid genre thrills.
05/29/09
Although her tale involves wild-at-heart lovers racing down a lost highway, Lynch has created a whole different shade of black from anything made by her father.
03/07/09
Riffs on noir influences with an inquisitive visual style that often drifts from the plot at hand.
06/26/09
A festival of carnage that's sometimes funny and sometimes waaay over the line.
07/24/09
A violent B-movie bamboozler that, while fun for a spell, is finally unconvincing.
03/06/09
Top CriticSurveillance isn't rewriting history, but it's a solid, entertaining third draft.
06/25/09
The pacing is so slow, you just want to yell out at the screen, "get on with it."
08/18/09
Jen’s tale is nowhere near as complex or subtle as the psycho-trickery regularly peddled by her old man. Still, even if the destination’s a disappointment, the journey makes up for it.
03/06/09
Enervated and uselessly ugly.
06/22/09
Twisted with black comedy, off-kilter performances, unsettling sound design and jolts of violence, Jennifer Lynch’s eminently Lynchian psycho-thriller is far better than its fairly predictable final rug-pull.
03/06/09
Trashy material, arty approach, Lynch’s comeback is harsh, puzzling and mostly weird-bad.
03/06/09
Top CriticSurveillance may brim with violence and unease, but it's a puzzle box film you'll have grim fun solving.
03/07/09
A would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering.
06/26/09
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