The Watcher (DVD)

Does the term 'generic' mean anything to you? Well, The Watcher can best be described as generic, nothing more nothing less. Its not a good movie, its not a bad movie, it just...generic. It is a movie which puts a serial killer at the centre of a case involving a pursuing burnt-out FBI agent and centres a whole bunch of games around this pursuit to torment him. Its a movie you have seen countless times before but with different actors and a barely discernable script and a movie you probably do not really want to see again. It has no place in the world because its seat has already been taken and standing room is becoming rapidly limited, and there are surely very ...

Multi-region DVD Players eh?, great inventions aren´t they? I mean you can get all the top titles on DVD months earlier than you would here in Blighty and cheaper too, when I bought my player thats what I originally thought, but since then I´ve had the (and I use the term loosely) pleasure of viewing the Region 1 (American) Release of the Watcher, a movie thats been hyped up so much it has to be said when we strip down to the bare bones its a bit of a let-down. Settling down with my staple movie-watching diet of one large tub of Haagen Daaz Ice-Cream and a large bottle of Pepsi hoping that we´d have a fair old horror movie, we soon found that the thought of the ...

’The Watcher’ stars James Spader as a detective who is in search for a serial killer, played by Keanu Reeves, who, several years back, murdered his wife. Unable to catch him over the years, he moves to Chicago, sort of to get away from what happened. Suddenly, a few young women are being murdered in the same fashion and the serial killer shows his return by sending photographs of his victims within hours of their deaths to the detective to give him a slight head start to save them. Most of the reviews for ’The Watcher’ were bad or not very good. This is why I never really let the critics decide for me on which films are good and which ...