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Wasn't this movie "Rear Window" to start with? Then it became "Stir of Echoes", then it turned into "Psycho", then...I don't know, I lost count of all the Hitchcock movies it ripped off after that. And did anyone count the amount of times someone SUDDENLY APPEARED IN SHOT in this movie? Or the amount of loose ends that were never tied up?: What was the point of the couple next door? The blood on the shoe? The point of Harrison Ford's father being dead? The point of the teenage daughter going to college? The point of Pfieffer having a car crash? Why Ford faked an electrocution in the bath? It seems that the formula for a 'Scary thriller' is thus: Baffle the audience for 80 minutes with questions, bang lots of things (I.E: doors, visual effects, the soundtrack) have a lone woman creeping around corners, then try to explain it all away by having the most ordinary, normal character suddenly turn into a stone cold psycho. Worst of all is Zemeckis. Did anyone else find this OBVIOUS digital shots of Pfieffer driving across the bridge at the end gratuitous and self- indulgent. As for all they "Hey look everyone, look at this, I got the camera to go through the floor" shots - god alone knows what Zemeckis thinks the audience reaction is to stuff like that. IT WAS DISTRACTING AND UNNECESSARY. It just reminded me over and over (fortunately)that I was watching a movie. A stupid movie. It amazes me that puerile dross likes this finds a mass audience and intelligent, lateral movies like 'Jacob's Ladder' drift away into nothingness.
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