Struggling against catching a dangerous serial killer of women, Joel, a young smart and courageous detective, who follows him in Los Angeles, but he can't catch him, so he returns to Chicago with a heavy heart, but when David begins to send him the photos of his victims a day before the murder, everything changes.
Director Joe Charbanic is saddled with an emotionally empty script by David Elliot and Clay Ayers, which matches Reeves's emotionally empty performance quite nicely.
The Watcher is a numbingly familiar exercise in fear, disgorging regular doses of grisly violence buoyed by precious little plot and pitifully thin character development.
eFilmCritic.com
July 23, 2007
If I never see another scene in which a woman is bound and gagged, while her killer struts around the room basking in his own psychotic cleverness, I won't mind a bit.