Surveillance is a respectable murder mystery until its contrived 'big reveal' causes it to deflate faster than an inner tube that was just sat on by a morbidly obese person.
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07/10/09
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
Lurching between crude comedy and self-conscious excess, Surveillance is just weird enough to keep your attention.
03/07/09
Has solid acting, but offers very little in terms of suspense, intelligence and intrigue. It completely falls apart into an inane, contrived and perverse mess that leaves you with a bad aftertaste.
06/28/09
I thought this was depressing and brutal for brutality sake alone.
06/22/09
Surveillance starts interesting, gets ugly, and ends kind of boring.
06/26/09
Falls somewhere in between the somewhat tongue-in-cheek tone of Wild at Heart and the more au courant trend toward savage, nihilistic deranged-killer movies.
07/01/09
From the looks of her latest cinematic abomination, it seems Jennifer Lynch is doomed to forever be regarded as David Lynch%u2019s untalented daughter.
06/05/09
Nasty, brutish and not short enough, this is a muddled, unpleasant film that falls half-way between not very entertaining horror and not-as-smart-as-it-thinks-it-is arthouse.
03/07/09
Sorry to say it, but you can't help wishing Lynch - daughter of esteemed director David - had extended her 16-year wilderness period, because Surveillance simply sucks.
03/06/09
The film's late, unprepared-for perversity turnabout undoes what has gone before.
06/25/09
Every so often, you come upon a movie so jaw-droppingly wrong, you wonder if your eyes are deceiving you.
06/26/09
It is staggering to think that a film could be so horrifically nihilistic and so painfully boring at the same time, but Lynch has done it.
09/30/09
Enervated and uselessly ugly.
06/22/09
The film's a failure.
07/24/09
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
Riffs on noir influences with an inquisitive visual style that often drifts from the plot at hand.
06/26/09
Horror fans are likely to guess the twist and feel bored; the more faint-of-heart may simply feel repulsed. And bored.
04/23/09
Top CriticA festival of carnage that's sometimes funny and sometimes waaay over the line.
07/24/09
A would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering.
06/26/09
Top CriticThe most enjoyable way to watch Surveillance -- 'enjoyable' in the relative sense -- is to take its awfulness for granted and pay attention to everything Bill Pullman does.
07/03/09
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