The time-honored “I Want to Be You” female thriller gets updated for the modern young crowd with this bland Screen Gems release. Slickly shot with a light Hitchcock flavor, this slow-burner checks off most of the genre’s most oiled plot points in unremarkable fashion, yet remains watchable in a vaguely trashy way. The PG-13 rating dulls much of the onscreen menace, which is dished out intermittently thanks to
Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester, playing the film’s girl-next-door psychotic villainess. In the protagonist department, Minka Kelly (from TV’s
Friday Night Lights) does just as suitable a job, but neither actor elevates the material for this crippli...
Released:
2010
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
93 mins