
The tale of a serial killer in West Hollywood has two converging plot lines. The first involves an uneasy relationship between a psychologically unstable landlady and her enigmatic lodger; the second is about a troubled detective engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with the elusive killer, who is imitating the crimes of Jack the Ripper.... (Full plot summary below)
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The tale of a serial killer in West Hollywood has two converging plot lines. The first involves an uneasy relationship between a psychologically unstable landlady and her enigmatic lodger; the second is about a troubled detective engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with the elusive killer, who is imitating the crimes of Jack the Ripper.
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| The A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt takes guts to remake what many believe to be Hitchcock's first masterpiece, but what Ondaatje's done with The Lodger could not be mistaken for ambition. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe film might amuse some, especially fans of Alfred Hitchcock, but is likely to annoy almost everyone else. |
| VarietyJohn AndersonWhat needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe biggest mystery, perhaps, is why accomplished actors such as Molina and Hope Davis agreed to be in this. |
| New York PostLou LumenickA good cast can't save The Lodger, the utterly wrongheaded fourth movie version of a 1910 novel inspired by Jack the Ripper. |
| Village VoiceElla TaylorNodding, winking, and sighing, The Lodger lumbers its way to a final twist so anticlimactic and silly as to warrant an incredulous titter. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisProstitutes are not the only things butchered in The Lodger, a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both. |
| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierFilled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck. |
| User Reviewchoomtabi31For a low budget film, this was actually a good thriller. I enjoyed Simon Baker in this. Watch it online for free: https://www.primewire. |