Director Jennifer Lynch has clearly inherited her father David’s ability to shock.
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03/06/09
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
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
It's a fiendish little thriller, and undeniably sick, but you won't forget it in a hurry.
03/06/09
It’s a bleak piece of Americana with a twisted smile on its face. Sick, if you like, but there’s a real film-maker here and I’ve never seen Ormond and Pullman so effectively not be their usual screen selves.
03/06/09
An enjoyably dark thriller with weird characters and an intriguing central mystery, though the resolution might not be to everyone's taste.
03/06/09
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
Jennifer Lynch, daughter of cinema's most celebrated weirdo, David Lynch, takes what could have been a straight-up slasher film and transforms it into a freak-fest that wouldn't look out of place on a double-bill with Lynch Snr's Lost Highway.
03/06/09
This is a sadistic film, so be warned.
03/05/09
A taut, nihilistic, exercise in heartland desolation, and unlike most films whose success is predicated on an 11th-hour twist, it plays 100% fair: The truth is out there from the beginning, if you're willing to see it.
03/01/09
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