There's nothing wrong with the ambition to update a classic thriller like Hitchcock's 'Rear Window', unless you make an embarrassing mess of the project. "The Voyeurs' makes its intentions clear from the get-go, as a young couple move into a new apartment and begin spying upon the amorous antics of neighbors across the street. So far, so good - but annoying traits in the acting and directing departments are a sign of things to come. The script never bothers to invest the peeping Toms, Pippa and Thomas, with any personality - and neither does it do so for any other character. It seems far more concerned with feeble puns on characters' names and the episodes of bland soft-core erotica taking place across the way.
Complications are added to the stew, but fail to give it any flavor, and everything starts falling apart as unlikely events are piled onto coincidences and absurd plot twists. Long before the end, credibility has been utterly lost as the story becomes a melodramatic farce with gigantic plot-holes, floundering about in cinematic limbo.
Complications are added to the stew, but fail to give it any flavor, and everything starts falling apart as unlikely events are piled onto coincidences and absurd plot twists. Long before the end, credibility has been utterly lost as the story becomes a melodramatic farce with gigantic plot-holes, floundering about in cinematic limbo.