Open Windows

Open Windows has plenty to say about both the death of privacy and the dominion of the always-connected digiverse we now inhabit, and editor Bernat Vilaplana does a remarkable job of keeping the film’s frenetic pace rushing headlong toward an ending that you’ll never see coming.

A fiendishly inventive thriller built around an audacious if unsustainable gimmick, Open Windows elevates Hitchcockian suspense to jittery new levels of mayhem and paranoia.

While the execution may be somewhat of a misfire, the obvious effort and thought put into making the concept work is worthy.

Open Windows attempts to disguise a revenge movie by cloaking it in the flash of a voyeuristic techno-thriller, but the combined concepts are so high that the film resolves as Vigalondo reaches his Icarus moment, the corpse so mangled and unpleasant the project’s ambition can only be identified via dental records.

It's pretty silly stuff, leaving the film to rely on more conventional car chases, woman-in-peril scenarios and mistaken identity to keep things interesting -- all seen on that laptop via security cameras and the like.

The new thriller from Spanish writer-director Nacho Vigalondo (Timecrimes) is visually dazzling, but the story starts off silly and ends up a confusing, maddening mess.

Smothered by a storm of visual tics — and the tiniest of nods to “Rear Window” (1954) — any social commentary takes second place to multitasking gimmickry.

I don't understand why the critics understimate that movie when he's the most original movie I saw ever. Some critics needs a second whatch. VIGALONDO ROCKS!

The night of the battle of the hackers! I have been longing to watch this film since it was out, only now it had happened. There are not many hacking film that could satisfy thoroughly. Well, I haven't found as impressive as the recent 'Who Am I'. This film was more like partially a found-footage type. Everything was from webcams and phone cams. Not exactly truthful to the reality. Even people with basic knowledge about computers would know that. But entertainment was there. I enjoyed it, mainly because of the speed and being an edgy. Well, a contest winner is waiting in his hotel room for his dinner date with a celebrity in the later night. While he was updating his blog, someone hacks his computer and gives more contents for the blog than he had thought of. But soon it all plays out differently. Now he's the hacker's puppet, and must follow everything he says or the consequences would be serious. How far it all goes and how it all ends are the remaining story to tell us. As I said not the best in this theme, but watchable film. Everything was a one night event. Slowly started and then picked up the pace before ending on a high. The end was not good, the twist. At least that's how I felt. Should have been better, yet acceptable. Elijah was good. I just checked it out after seeing his nice act in his latest Netflix film. The rest of the cast was fine too. A Spanish film in English language. Soon I'm going to check out the 'Colossal' from this same director. So it is a good time pass film and you might enjoy it as I did. 6/10

What did the filmmakers expect when they took the lead actress of adult films? I am not surprised that the film turned out to be weak! The plot is full of logical inconsistencies, otherwise how to explain that applications like Utopia p2p are not mentioned in a word? Even Elijah Wood does not save her game, and to be honest, he is more associated with the hobbit Frodo.

This movie is just stupid. The plot is stupid, It isn't funny Nothing is interesting, The characters are forgettable. The ending is a slap on the face. and it just lacked effort.

Before Unfriended and The Den came out, the first "laptop horror film", Open Windows, in which the entire plot is told through the screen of a computer. I give it props for being very ambitious and having a interesting premise, but so much went wrong in this movie that those things aren't enough to make this a truly good movie. Open Windows is about a man named Nick Chambers (Elijah Wood) who gets caught in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse after given the chance to spy on his favorite movie actress, Jill Goddard (Sasha Grey). The movie opens well enough, and it's mildly thrilling until the film starts thinking it's smarter than it actually is. Open Windows bombards you with plot twists after only 20 minutes, and I don't mean little tiny revelations that are found in virtually every movie. I mean plot-altering events, and there's one of them about every 10 minutes. This movie just tries to go bigger and crazier as the plot progresses, and it gets so confusing and aggravating that you don't care by the time you get to the final act. Open Windows was a huge disappointment for me. If you want effective laptop horror, I suggest The Den or Unfriended.