The Woman in the Window
I'm already starting to blank out on a lot of this film, even though I had just watched it not even 24 hours ago. I forgot that I watched the trailer for it and in a month, I'll forget that I had ever watched the movie.
I wonder if the book is anything like the movie, because if that's the case, who genuinely even likes the book? Nothing is memorable, nothing is redeemable, nothing is engaging. NOTHING VENTURED, NOTHING GAINED!
The only positive I can give this film is its cinematography. It's actually pretty alright most of the time, but for whatever reason, in a handful of scenes, it overuses and misuses a lot of Dutch angle shots and they feel really out of place given the tone of those scenes.
The most unfortunate part of this movie is that it has such a well-recognized and commendable cast that are all given absolutely nothing to work with and they give either very lackluster or very over-the-top performances as a result of the poor writing making their characters as uninteresting as possible. <PERSON> is a fantastic actor and he's barely in the movie. I found myself caring for none of these characters and I found them to also be pretty unlikable, on top of all their other great attributes. 952
I'm glad the cat played as much into the plot as it did though. That cat is cute and awesome.
Speaking of the plot, while it's rather interesting and had a good amount of potential, it was so condensed and watered down in the movie that it wasn't very engaging. The pacing was all over the place and it had about 3 climaxes in total. The "twists" are seen coming from 57 miles away. There's a certain character that you're introduced to in the beginning of the movie and by the end they're revealed to be an enemy and you're supposed to be like "OHHH SHIT" but it ended up being more of an "oh ok" moment, as well as a "yeah I totally didn't see that coming" moment.
Overall, I'm sorry this review is as underwhelming as the movie but I genuinely can't really remember what I watched anymore. It's not good, it's not memorable, and it's bad. I'd watch this again over The Little Things, but it's still one of the worst movies I've seen all year. 236