The Woman in the Window

There’s bad fun to be had in the final stretch – if you go in fully aware that the production flew off the rails.

Its script is junk—but junk brought to the screen with verve.

The Woman in the Window isn’t sure whether it’s a thriller, a drama, a psychological study or a slasher. Each Big Moment™ succeeds in eliciting a reaction, but that just leads to a new state of confusion. Confusion that’s spurred on by questions that aren’t answered.

I could see The Woman in the Window becoming a kind of channel-surfing cult classic. But not as long as Rear Window is out there somewhere, too.

Shortcomings aside, stylistic overkill (Hellloooo Brian DePalma) included, the only real downside to all this is the too-obvious “mystery” is the dishonor it does the filmmaker Wright, Letts & Co. are “paying tribute” to. Don’t let a bad Hitchock homage scare you away from The Master of Suspense.

The Woman in the Window would like to be a contempo “Rear Window,” but it’s so riddled with things you can’t buy that it plays like a bad Brian De Palma movie minus the camera movement.

The movie is a pallid, dull slog of bad acting and worse storytelling.

Trust me, this movies is very good and the critics are wrong. It took my breath away

This was in a way remake of Hitchcock's movie, but with bit different twists. I did enjoy it, of course at bits it was a bit boring, but I am surprised at many low ratings here.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

The main thing that got my attention for this movie is the fact that it was mentioned it was about an agoraphobic lady. As someone who has had agoraphobia for almost 14 years since it started, I was excited to see someone else's view and experience with such a thing. The whole agoraphobia thing did not make much sense to me, it seems that it was caused by a tragic event before in her past that wasn't shown till much later in the movie. Even then it didn't really show what let up to having such bad agoraphobia where she was unable to even go to her roof on her own house!? It wasnt even the roof, it was the stairs which were already inside!? Then she is able to open her window and yell out it perfectly fine!!! That made absolutely no sense. There was nothing apart of the movie to show the feeling of what agoraphobia was, it was more of just a plot in there to keep her housebound. The one thing that ruined it (not much of a spoiler) was near the end she was in a situation where she was unable to return to comfort. Lets just say she was bedridden(anyone who watched the movie will understand) She was perfectly fine, no panic at all!? If you are so afraid to even go to the roof of your own house, you will not be fine bedridden unable to return. So much potential to build a movie about something not understood well, yet they didn't even do their research much. She has a lot more mental issues that caused more bigger plot points in the movie and they were not mentioned in the description of the film or even mentioned what they were in the movie.

Amy Adams once again sleepwalks in a performance that's inside of a forgettable movie. All and all there's nothing really impressive about the twists and turns.