"The Watcher" is a passable, reasonably good serial-killer movie. It has a few clever ideas and some suspenseful moments.
There's really not too much wrong with it. No, wait. Make all those statements conditional: It WOULD BE passable, it WOULD HAVE some suspenseful moments, there's WOULDN'T BE too much wrong with it -- all if Keanu Reeves HADN'T BEEN cast as the serial killer. He is nearly the only thing wrong with "The Watcher," a movie that may not be too different from the thousand or so other serial-killer movies of the last 20 years, but which nonetheless could have been pretty decent for its genre. But Keanu is a man who can barely play regular people convincingly; as a psychotic cold-blooded, cat-and-mouse-game killer, he is extraordinarily unmenacing, unbelievably and even laughably Keanu-esque.
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