Teen thrillers always are fifty-fifty depending on the audience. Half of the audience goes in expecting a real thriller and
is disappointed. The other half goes in expecting suspense from a young teenager''s mentality, and can be entertained.
The Glass House, starring Leelee Sobieski (Deep Impact) and Stellan Skarsgaard (Good Will Hunting), is a thriller, that, of course, should be taken with a grain of salt, given that its main character is a 16-year old girl who can''t drive if her life depended on it (funny, huh?) and suspects that her foster parents actually murdered her real parents to collect a four million dollar trust fund from her and her brother. It is a teen thriller and because of that nothing too deep should be expected, but surprisingly The Glass House deals out very few stupid moments and moderate suspense.
This movie reminds me of another recent teen thriller called Antitrust, starring Ryan Phillippe and Tim Robbins, where a young man begins to suspect that his boss is hiding something. In many respects, The Glass House and Antitrust are very similar, in formula, in acting, in suspense. If you''ve seen Antitrust, I''d have to say that The Glass House has less mistakes and a little more action, but Antitrust is slightly smarter and more suspenseful. Let me break it down...