Vince Vaughn
Jonah Hill
Richard Ayoade
First, this movie is absolute crap with a capital C. Second, I found
myself laughing all the way through. It is a movie you can’t recommend to
anyone to go see, but you won’t stop them if they are already on their way.
The movie entered development as Neighborhood Watch and was directed by Hot
Rod (2007) director Akiva Schaffer. Two months before it was released, its name
was changed to The Watch because of the shooting of Trayvon Martin by a
neighborhood watch member.
The interesting thing about the movie is the dialogue. It is totally
sick and contains a lot of uncalled-for profanity that makes you wonder, but
laugh.
As weak as plots go, this is one of the weakest I have seen either Ben
Stiller or Vince Vaughn in. The story starts after the death of Evan’s friend
Antonio, who had his skin ripped off. Evan forms a neighborhood watch to
prevent such occurrences from happening again.
He is joined by Bob (Vince Vaughn), who is just looking for an excuse to
hang out with the guys, Franklin (Jonah Hill), who is eager to join any form of
security force, and Jamarcus (Richard Ayoade), who has just moved into the
neighbourhood.
Due to their relentless urge for the job, they get invited to an orgy and blow up a department store.
The band of misfits goes from Neighborhood Watch to Alien Hunters.
This is not the first time Vince and Ben have worked together, but this
movie is weak. The story lacks depth, and the characters’ backstories are all
too shallow for you to attach anything to them. That is what makes a good
movie, the viewer being able to attach a distinctive attribute to a character.
This makes the character memorable, and the movie less easily forgotten.
The movie shots were not so good for me. It felt like they were shy to
show the alien at first, then later changed their minds. The director is not
getting any better at making movies. Hot Rod was a waste of time and this movie
had no sense of creativity or professionalism in directing. The characters and
scenes all looked out of place at times.
For example, the guys get egged, everyone is chasing some perpetrator,
after a while they focus on one, he gets caught, he is taken to the police, he
is going home, he gets chased by an alien, he gets caught, the alien crosses
the street and gets hit by a car. All this happened in one stretch and left me
with this question.
Why did the alien cross the road?
He was jumping from roof to roof initially, so it makes you wonder why
he changed his mind this time.
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