Surveillance (2009) Critic Reviews
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A grubby, disturbing serial-killer mystery, a kind of blood-simple "Rashomon."Read the full review
Surveillance will please the B-movie crowd in theaters and on into the ancillariesRead the full review
Surveillance suggests "Jennifer Lynchian" should be used for films that aspire to David’s moody, idiosyncratic genius and fall woefully short.Read the full review
A mildly amusing trifle with one of the genre's dafter plot twists.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
