Description:
A young couple (Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith), find themselves becoming interested in the sex life of their neighbors across the street (Ben Hardy and Natasha Liu Bordizzo). What starts as an innocent curiosity turns into an unhealthy obsession, after they discover that one neighbor is cheating. Temptation and desire cause their lives to become tangled together leading to deadly consequences.
My Review:
I added this movie to my watchlist in August when I saw the trailer before something else I was watching. It gave me Rear Window or Disturbia vibes so I was really excited for it to come on Prime Video, even waiting to watch it until I got back from vacation so I could watch it with my family.
What I would see in the next 1 hour and 56 minutes was not at all what I was expecting. It was just... not good. In places it was like you were just watching porn.
You start off with a young couple moving into an apartment. It's weird because they're told they can't put up curtains and they have a perfect view into the apartment across the street. The young couple soon becomes obsessed with watching the couple that live in the apartment across from them. Spying on them with binoculars, crashing their Halloween party, and even doing some kind of weird thing that involves a laser light and a mirror so that they can hear the couple across the way's conversations. It's obsessive and the female lead, played by SYDNEY SWEENEY, becomes obsessed with the couple - almost aroused by both the male and the female.
Now about the couple across the way - he's a photographer and she, well it's not really clear what she does, if anything. They have a very healthy sex life and he uses his job as a photographer to bang pretty much every female - sometimes more than one at a time - that comes in to get photographed. Then by chance our heroine meets the woman, Julia and strikes up a friendship. But her "moral conscience" makes her "anonymously" alert her new friend that her husband is cheating on her. Putting them all on a deadly path of destructions and a twist at the end that isn't all that satisfying.
Sydney Sweeney is pretty unlikeable in this movie, although I've seen her in The Handmaid's Tale and a movie on Lifetime and didn't like her in those either so I suppose she just likes playing unlikeable characters. The character of her boyfriend is so one-dimensional you barely know anything about him and occasionally forget he's there so I can't speak to much about the actor. He seemed alright, he just wasn't given much to do.
The actors who played the couple across the street were slightly better. Julia is clearly a psychopath without the ability to feel remorse or guilt and the actress plays it well. The actor that plays Seb is pretty good looking and made it worth watching all the practically pornographic escapades he gets into. But his part is basically to walk around mostly naked and fuck anything that moves so I'm not sure it took much acting ability. The most emotion you see out of the character is toward the end when unlike Julia he almost feels bad about what he has done.
Overall, the movie really dragged and I wish I would have either not watched it at all or stopped it once I realized it wasn't anything like what I was expecting. The ending was neither satisfying or conclusive and the only moral of the movie is to mind your own business and be sure to buy some curtains. I would not recommend this movie to anyone but horny teenage boys.
Rating:
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1 of 5 Reels!
Rating Details:
🎞 - Don't Waste Your Time
🎞🎞 - Not the worst thing I've seen but pretty bad all the same
🎞🎞🎞 - Just okay, neither good nor bad
🎞🎞🎞🎞 - Pretty good, but I still had a couple issues
🎞🎞🎞🎞🎞 - New favorite film alert!
