The cast works hard to make you believe they believe what the screenwriter tells them to believe. But in the end, it all seems contrived and silly.
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01/28/09
The Lodger (2009)
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Reviews Counted:6
Fresh:0
Rotten:6
Average Rating:2.5/10
Consensus: An accomplished cast can't save a derivative suspense flick that manages to confuse and bore rather than thrill.
Theatrical Release:Jan 23, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: The tale that inspired Alfred Hitchcock's THE LODGER gets a modern sheen in this thriller that features a star-filled cast. Hope Davis plays a woman who takes on a mysterious lodger (Simon Baker),... [More]
Starring: Simon Baker, Alfred Molina, Hope Davis, Shane West
Director: David Ondaatje
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Reviews for The Lodger
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Top CriticThis strained, empty effort doesn't work as homage or update, and in its darkly violent sensibility has neither the glamour of Brian De Palma's referential nightmares or even the narrative fuel of the serial-killer-obsessed procedurals that dominate tv.
01/23/09
Top CriticFilled with second-rate Brian DePalma twists, noirishly blurred lights and usually solid actors mouthing potboiler brine, The Lodger resembles bottom-shelf '80s dreck.
01/23/09
Top CriticA good cast can't save The Lodger, the utterly wrongheaded fourth movie version of a 1910 novel inspired by Jack the Ripper that was most famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926.
01/23/09
Top CriticWhat needed to be a taut, structurally sound psychothriller instead malfunctions from the start.
01/23/09
Top CriticThe Lodger is a spooky story ruined by lumpen dialogue, cloddish performances and a director and writer (David Ondaatje) oblivious to both.
01/23/09
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February 13, 2009:
The director playfully taunts with the copycat notion of a little of Jack The Ripper in any man, in this flashy when not murky copycat thriller, and those particular unhealthy fixations manifested in varying degrees on both sides of the law. 
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February 06, 2009:
The director playfully taunts with the copycat notion of a little of Jack The Ripper in any man, in this flashy when not murky copycat thriller, and those particular unhealthy fixations manifested in varying degrees on both sides of the law.
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January 30, 2009:
The director playfully taunts with the copycat notion of a little of Jack The Ripper in any man, in this flashy when not murky copycat thriller, and those particular unhealthy fixations manifested in varying degrees on both sides of the law.
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