This movie was heavily promoted as the moment Robin Williams went villain: 22 years after the premiere the hype survives and people is very generous with their appraisal but when you forget about Williams as a famous actor the movie is flimsy and some times laughable.
The premise is very promising: a random guy having a good glimpse of peoples private lifes got obsessed with some of his costumers. That premise went bad very early because is never explained why that particular family become the protagonist obsession, there is a vague insinuation Sy want to be part of a family but there is no something special (real of imaginary) attaching that family to the protagonist, is like they are the placeholder for the movie victims role.
The plot become weird very early when the family's son start to wonder (out of the blue) about the private life of a store employee and the mom follow his son worries about this guy they talked for about 3 minutes. Yeah maybe we need a little of suspense of disbelief but this weird unexplained friendly relationship with a random store employee continues the rest of the movie: Sy knows too much about Timmy , ask too much about him and etc, and the Mom never got that feeling something is off as any real person will do.
The invasion of privacy is the least worry of the characters: even Sy went to get in contact with Timmy as if was the most normal people do IRL and nothing happens. When you expect Sy will be got in trouble for being a stalker the plot become contrived because Sy being a stalker is not a problem for anyone in the movie: writers replaced that natural and logic source of drama for a very contrived infidelity plot and everything what happened previously between Sy the mother and timmy go to waste and never is resolved.
The end is totally anticlimatic: no one cares about that red haired women of timmy father because they had like 1 or 2 minutes screen time previously.
The premise is very promising: a random guy having a good glimpse of peoples private lifes got obsessed with some of his costumers. That premise went bad very early because is never explained why that particular family become the protagonist obsession, there is a vague insinuation Sy want to be part of a family but there is no something special (real of imaginary) attaching that family to the protagonist, is like they are the placeholder for the movie victims role.
The plot become weird very early when the family's son start to wonder (out of the blue) about the private life of a store employee and the mom follow his son worries about this guy they talked for about 3 minutes. Yeah maybe we need a little of suspense of disbelief but this weird unexplained friendly relationship with a random store employee continues the rest of the movie: Sy knows too much about Timmy , ask too much about him and etc, and the Mom never got that feeling something is off as any real person will do.
The invasion of privacy is the least worry of the characters: even Sy went to get in contact with Timmy as if was the most normal people do IRL and nothing happens. When you expect Sy will be got in trouble for being a stalker the plot become contrived because Sy being a stalker is not a problem for anyone in the movie: writers replaced that natural and logic source of drama for a very contrived infidelity plot and everything what happened previously between Sy the mother and timmy go to waste and never is resolved.
The end is totally anticlimatic: no one cares about that red haired women of timmy father because they had like 1 or 2 minutes screen time previously.
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