What's ultimately most frustrating about The Watcher is the way it takes a scenario that's genuinely frightening and makes it seem implausible.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 28, 2023

Watching a miscast Keanu Reeves portray a brilliant serial killer is akin to watching a month-old kitten try to navigate its way across a junkyard guarded by a half-dozen pit bulls -- it ain't a pretty sight.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 17, 2021

Had Keanu Reeves gotten litigious, everyone would still remember the lawsuit. No one is still talking about "The Watcher." Well, almost no one. Instead, the stream remained serene. The air remained pure. The breeze, like the man, remained cool.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 8, 2020

There's a perfectly acceptable junk food thriller ready to be enjoyed, one doofy, borderline amateurish scene at a time.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Sep 21, 2020

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Feb 5, 2014

Tired plot and disastrous casting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 29, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Jul 23, 2007

Not half bad as a rental.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 23, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 10, 2005

Nasty, sadistic, ugly and pointless.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Dec 10, 2005

One of the lamest serial killer thrillers of the post-Silence of the Lambs era.

Full Review | Original Score: D | May 4, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 20, 2003

You can't buy Keanu as a sadist, but you do worry about the guys who wrote the screenplay.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 25, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 8, 2003

Dreadful performances, scanty motivation and excruciating dialogue.

Full Review | Dec 16, 2002

The script sucks, the directing sucks, and, as much as I do like him, Keanu sucks.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 30, 2002

Peters out like a late-night drunk when its threadbare plot and poorly drawn supporting characters start to stand out like a row of empty shot glasses.

Full Review | Original Score: 59/100 | Jul 24, 2001