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Vying thus far for the worst film of the year. Ms. Lynch's crude sensibility results in an excruciating film experience; if Hal Needham had a dark side, it might resemble this dull debacle. I rate it a 1 rather than zero soley based on Bill Pullman's performance and Julia Ormand's looks. Sadly, they cannot rise above the dreck.
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Surveillance suggests "Jennifer Lynchian" should be used for films that aspire to Davids moody, idiosyncratic genius and fall woefully short.
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In the end, Surveillance is a puzzle box film that has nothing to offer except the various puzzle pieces. The characters do not stand out, the drama is not compelling, and the screenplay is light on even remotely interesting dialogue.
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Tense psychological thriller, fine performances and an effective setting. The twist ending will either delight or infuriate, but either way, the film held my interest.
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The performances are dreadful, the direction shoddy and the final twist so idiotic, your mind cant help but drift toward all the better scripts just waiting, sadly and silently, for the chance wasted here.
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Surveillance is the work of a director who has made significant strides in both storytelling and control of the medium, deftly interweaving a grisly thriller, a sicko "Rashmon," a switcheroo, a psychotic love story, an imaginative paean to children, and an inspired resurrection of Julia Ormond.
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A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple "Rashomon."
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A mildly amusing trifle with one of the genre's dafter plot twists.
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Surveillance will please the B-movie crowd in theaters and on into the ancillaries
Mick LaSalle
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The 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.
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Either a ludicrously bad movie or a parody of same. Either way, it's pretty funny.
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I, like the writer of the NY Daily News, was asking myself as I watched he movie, "Any other movie that didn't get made because of this one would probably have been better." It's depressing that people find financing for movies like this, and even more depressing that there are people who enjoy them. Neither the characters or the plot (which seems to have been written by someone in junior high) are very believable. In summary, it was an unpleasant experience.
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It seems doubtful that Surveillance, a would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering, would be taking up space in theaters if its director were not the daughter of a name filmmaker.
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At the end, all is horrifically explained, the body count inflates, yet hardly anything makes sense. In Papa Lynch's films, little is explained, yet because he's so gifted at mining our deepest fears and scariest desires, logic is excused.
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Whether madcap parody the "American Psycho" of G-man flicks or walk on the wild side of Lynch's obsessions, the film's a failure.
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