A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has
moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
Director: Rob Cohen
Writer: Barbara Curry
Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Ryan Guzman, Kristin Chenoweth | See full cast and crew »
Storyline
When a handsome, charming teenager named Noah (Ryan Guzman) moves in
next door, newly separated high-school teacher Claire Peterson (Jennifer
Lopez) encourages his friendship and engages in a little bit of
harmless (or so she thinks) flirtation. Although Noah spends much of the
time hanging out with Claire's son, the teen's attraction to her is
palpable. One night, Claire gives in to temptation and lets Noah seduce
her, but when she tries to end the relationship, he turns violent.
The Boy Next Door Movie Reviews
The
Boy Next Door is the latest film that January of 2015 has to offer and
man oh man does this film scream January. It doesn't just scream
January, it screams out multiple other adjectives to describe this
useless, idiotic, and ridiculous film. The Boy Next Door pits a recent
divorceè in a torrid affair with the next door neighbor who happens to
be crazy and you could probably tell how this film is going to go due to
its overtly "let's not even try anymore" attitude. Let's start off with
the good...there is none. Now for the bad, there's a ton. Number one, I
think that anyone with half a brain could probably realize that this is
a horrible film. It is paced terribly, it has the dialog of a cheesy
Lifetime movie from the nineties and it has Jennifer Lopez in her worst
role to date. The film's 90 or so minute runtime even feels too long as
we wallow in classic stalker movie clichés for its duration. It runs
through the classic genre thrills from Fatal Attraction, Basic Instinct,
The Hand that Rocks the Cradle and many more and uses absolutely
nothing with it. The biggest issue with this film isn't the terrible
plot, it isn't the half baked thrills, it is the dialog. The dialog in
this film sounds like the first draft of an episode of Guiding Light.
There's no flavor to it, thus letting the actors turn in bland and
listless performances. For a film that is listed as a suspense thriller,
there is no suspense and zero thrills. Quite honestly, the only thing
that was thrilling in this film were the end credits. Yes, this film is
that bad and it stands up pretty high on the list of terrible films I've
seen. It fits nice and snug between Troll 2 and Gigli.
Post a Comment