The Watch

Ratings: 5.5/10

Film Class: C+

Genre: Comedy

Evan (Ben Stiller) is a nice guy, a nice boss living in a nice town. Everything changes when his employee was murdered, prompting him to start a neighbourhood watch to nab the killer. However, things isn't as what it seems, because the murderer happens to be extra-terrestrial. 

Can Evan and his watch of brothers stop the impending alien invasion? You won't have to sit through it to know the answer. 

The Watch is a predictable, crude and pretty lame movie. The storyline's predictable, the humor's crude, and there's too many loopholes, even fingerholes (reference to the movie) in it. The acting was horrendous, with the exception of the 4 leads, but it just felt like a low class film. The director obviously couldn't be bothered with the plot and the script writers obviously just wanted someone to make a verbally-pornographic-alien movie.  

The Achilles heel of the aliens really smashed it for me, it was so off and ridiculously crappy that I couldn't even be bothered to talk about it with my fiancée after the movie. The opening was quite engaging, but everything else went downhill after. I just wonder to myself, are directors that free and rich in US to find decent actors to star in crappy movies? That's one way to screw the reputation of established actors... (pardon the language, but if you're gonna watch it, you better get used to it)