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The Watcher (2000)

2000 96 min Sep 8, 2000

Storyline

FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.

Release DateSeptember 8, 2000
Runtime96 minutes
Ratings
(10 votes, average: 2.60 out of 5)
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50
TNT RoughCut
J. Rentilly
What distinguishes The Watcher from all the films it consciously or unconsciously emulates is the intermittently witty, offbeat writing of debuting screenwriter David Elliot.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The actors cannot be faulted. They bring more to the story than it really deserves.
50
Chicago Reader
Lisa Alspector
This thriller largely succeeds in putting quotation marks around its use of genre conventions, mixing subtlety and overkill to create a pensive mood that transcends the plot.
42
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Reeves is a stiff dancer and he delivers his lines in a full leather jacket monotone.
40
Maitland McDonagh
If Reeves weren't onboard this picture would have gone straight to video.

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