David Allen Griffin is a cool killer- time and time again, he chooses a female victim, studies her for weeks till he knows her routine to the smallest detail, makes meticulous preparations using his forensic knowledge to gain entry when she's quite alone, subdues her and administers a long, torturous death. Joel Campbell got so frustrated by his failure to capture Griffin in Los Angeles, that he quit the FBI, moved to Chicago, and remains in psychiatric therapy, unable to fun... (Full plot summary below)
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David Allen Griffin is a cool killer- time and time again, he chooses a female victim, studies her for weeks till he knows her routine to the smallest detail, makes meticulous preparations using his forensic knowledge to gain entry when she's quite alone, subdues her and administers a long, torturous death. Joel Campbell got so frustrated by his failure to capture Griffin in Los Angeles, that he quit the FBI, moved to Chicago, and remains in psychiatric therapy, unable to function normally. Then he realizes, when opening his mail very late, that a new murder victim is Griffin's, and the killer sent him pictures of her. Campbell reports this to the police, but is unwilling to join them in the search, suggesting Griffin is too slick and clever; yet he won't get out of it that easily.
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| E! OnlineE! StaffDirector Joe Charbanic does some good work with the stylized visuals but forgets that if we don't care about the characters we don't care what the scenery around them looks like either. |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerOne of the lamest serial killer thrillers of the post-Silence of the Lambs era. |
| Movie MomNell MinowA couple of clever turns don't rescue this movie from its tired plot, laughable dialogue, and disastrous casting. |
| MovielineDaniel PapkinA leaden, somber and suspenseless thriller. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumReeves is a stiff dancer and he delivers his lines in a full leather jacket monotone. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe actors cannot be faulted. They bring more to the story than it really deserves. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThere are so many themes that could be unpacked through the details of the true story of The Watcher, but Murphy and his team don’t trust the facts, adding more and more ridiculous twists with every episode, until the whole thing collapses under any suspension of disbelief. |
| TNT RoughCutJ. RentillyWhat distinguishes The Watcher from all the films it consciously or unconsciously emulates is the intermittently witty, offbeat writing of debuting screenwriter David Elliot. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanComes this close to overcoming its problems and succeeding as a thriller, but doesn't quite make it. |
| PopMattersMike WardThe Watcher's hemmed-in, pervasively technological urbanscape only allows for one superstitious -- though maybe not entirely irrational -- belief: that the one who photographs you can steal your soul. |
