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The Watcher
Directed by
Joe Charbanic
R
2000
1h 36m
Mystery
,
Thriller
,
and more
5.3
11%
28%
5.1
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A detective relocates after failing to catch a serial killer. Once settled, the killer resurfaces in his new city and begins sending photos of future victims.
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Cast of The Watcher
James Spader
FBI Special Agent Joel Campbell
Keanu Reeves
David Allen Griffin
Marisa Tomei
Dr. Polly Beilman
Ernie Hudson
FBI Special Agent in Charge Mike Ibby
Chris Ellis
Hollis
Robert Cicchini
Mitch
Yvonne Niami
Lisa
Jenny McShane
Diana
Gina Alexander
Sharon
Joseph Sikora
Skater
Jillian Peterson
Jessica
Michele DiMaso
Rachel
Andrew Rothenberg
Jack Fray
David Pasquesi
Norton
Jason Wells
Computer Tech
Rebekah Nanfria
Ellie
Joe Charbanic
Director
David Elliot
Screenplay
Clay Ayers
Screenplay
Christopher Eberts
Producer
The Watcher Ratings & Reviews
Common Sense Media
Nell Minow
Tired plot and disastrous casting.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
One of the lamest serial killer thrillers of the post-Silence of the Lambs era.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The movie is called The Watcher and, let me tell you, it's something no one should watch. Not this weekend. Not on video. Not in this lifetime.
San Francisco Examiner
Wesley Morris
A depressing state of affairs.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
The Watcher is a numbingly familiar exercise in fear, disgorging regular doses of grisly violence buoyed by precious little plot and pitifully thin character development.
Salon.com
Mary Elizabeth Williams
Exactly the kind of movie you might happen upon while watching Cinemax in your hotel room and think, 'This'll do till Conan comes on.'
Film.com
Robert Horton
The thinking is, if faced with a dead sequence in the editing room, flood it with light, or break it up with jump cuts, or leech the color out, or blur the image in some arty way. Whatever. It still looks dead.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
While intelligently plotted and well-acted by James Spader, Keanu Reeves and Marisa Tomei, it is neither acutely suspenseful nor particularly thrilling but instead mainly numbing.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
[Keanu's] line readings, aiming for a mixture of suavity and creepiness, just sound silly.
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
To borrow a phrase from another Chicagoan, John Belushi, The Watcher is a 'but nooooo' movie.
USA Today
Andy Seiler
The same sick story. Even the small touches seem stale.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Is neither slick, clever nor especially thrilling.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The Watcher isn't that hard to watch, but you could find better things to do with your eyes.
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
A minor, but watchable, melodrama.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
A crass, mechanical attempt at a thriller that should have gone straight to video.
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
A hodgepodge of half-baked visual styles. Not many thrills, either.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Multiple candles may be a universal symbol in movies (and rock videos) for romance and spirituality. But they're useless in illuminating the deadness of The Watcher.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Reeves, as the killer, has the fairly thankless task of saying only what the movie needs him to say; he's limited by the fact that his killer has no real dimension or personality apart from his function as a plot device.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
We can't ignore the lack of anything resembling substance or purpose in The Watcher.
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