Performances are outstanding across the board.
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06/26/09
Surveillance (2009)
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Reviews Counted:69
Fresh:38
Rotten:31
Average Rating:5.2/10
Consensus: This dark psycho-thriller from Jennifer Lynch, is violent, sharp and baffling, but not to everyone's taste.
Theatrical Release:Jun 26, 2009 Limited
Synopsis: It's been a hell of a day on the highway. When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at Captain Billing's office, they have three sets of... [More]
Starring: Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James, Ryan Simpkins
Director: Jennifer Lynch
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Reviews for Surveillance
The picture is twisted and disturbing and funny. Director Jennifer Lynch has pushed the material to the wall -- she has a gift for violence and perversity, and she never pulls back.
06/26/09
Ether a ludicrously bad movie or a parody of same. Either way, it's pretty funny.
06/26/09
Top CriticEvery so often, you come upon a movie so jaw-droppingly wrong, you wonder if your eyes are deceiving you.
06/26/09
Its dark weirdness turns it into a surreal blur.
06/26/09
Surveillance starts interesting, gets ugly, and ends kind of boring.
06/26/09
Riffs on noir influences with an inquisitive visual style that often drifts from the plot at hand.
06/26/09
A would-be transgression that tries to squeeze dark laughs from the spectacle of human suffering.
06/26/09
The film's late, unprepared-for perversity turnabout undoes what has gone before.
06/25/09
Surveillance isn't rewriting history, but it's a solid, entertaining third draft.
06/25/09
Two-thirds of Surveillance is taut and absorbing, yet the cheap third act twist feels tacked on from a lesser talent, say one whose last name rhymes with 'Pshyamalan.'
06/25/09
Doesn't exactly leap off the screen as a diamond example of procedural crime busting cinema, but taken as the next professional step for Lynch, it's an efficient mood piece, setting out to unnerve and baffle, and achieving most of its goals.
06/25/09
The many devils in Surveillance don’t just want money or blood; they take pleasure in seeing you squirm, and that’s precisely why this nightmare gets under your skin.
06/25/09
One of those love it/hate it movies that leaves you feeling shaken because it presents such a dark vision of the world. Enter at your own risk.
06/24/09
When Surveillance is good, it’s a gory, pleasurable ride. When it’s not -- it’s just gory. But more often than not, it delivers on the camp.
06/22/09
I thought this was depressing and brutal for brutality sake alone.
06/22/09
Enervated and uselessly ugly.
06/22/09
A nasty little slice of backwater depravity.
06/19/09
Jennifer Lynch's nasty little crime procedural is not much more than an exercise, but it's a vivid, smartly executed and refreshingly eccentric one.
06/17/09
From the looks of her latest cinematic abomination, it seems Jennifer Lynch is doomed to forever be regarded as David Lynch%u2019s untalented daughter.
06/05/09
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