About 5 minutes into this movie I was feeling mildly interested - seemed like that was a story here. A few minutes later I was getting annoyed with all of the characters & their uninteresting personalities & numerous badly developed back stories. After 20 mins I started skipping ahead and couldn't bring myself to care about anyone or anything. I already had the "twist" worked out, not that it took much actual work so obviously telegraphed as it was. I gave up about 2 thirds through and jumped ahead to the ending. Sure enough, predictable & stupid. I can't put my finger on exactly what was so awful about this movie but it was one of the worst I've seen. I think it was trying too hard, thought itself too clever, took itself too seriously and unfortunately, it was badly directed/scripted/acted etc. A lame story badly told. I felt angry at having wasted time on the thing. Don't bother.

............................................................from Pasto,Colombia...Via: L.A. CA., CALI, COLOMBIA and ORLANDO, FL Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David Lynch (Mullholand Dr....Yes, I can see that!) You can rest assured, with each passing year, Ms. Lynch's name will grow ever more prominent! Several friends have rated this 6*. Hmmm, up front, for the record, 9*; loud and clear, front and center. My prognostication: SURVEILLANCE will soon attain "Cult Classic" status, with legions of aficionados. You heard it here first, from the Id of Dr. Morbius! Now I'll tell you why. Almost from the very onset, the underlying tension, the nail-biting, sparks-flying friction between characters is hypnotic and entrancingly numbing. Surveillance is beyond dark, to the point of being "Non-commercial"! Now, is that good? Well, you'll have to decide that for yourself! ***** Very MINOR SPOILERS Coming Up! ******Lots of reviewers have mentioned the "surprise ending". IMHO there are quite obviously 2 back-to-back, from-out-of-left-field plot twists at the end of the movie. Well 3, if you count the…OOPS! I can't really say, now can I? Ms. Lynch is really up to snuff on her movie-making technique. Editing, camera-angles, photography, close-ups, and pacing; SUPERB, ALL of them! WOW! SURVEILLANCE wasn't a .22 Caliber bullet to my brain…it was a .45! Blew my mind in one fell swoop! But this film has "POLARIZING" written all over it! From sincere, soul-searching reviewers, we should see lots of either 8 to 10* ratings, or 2* and 3* ones. The violence, although mostly not extremely graphic, nor taking up much on-screen time, considering the genre, was so pathologically twisted, I'm sure it'll prove too just intense for the likings of many. For this reason, I've had a change of heart, or let's say GUTS, to 8*......ENJOY/DISFRUTELA!Any comments, questions or observations, in English o en Español, are most welcome! [email protected]

A pair of killer is on the loose in Nebraska of all places,, a massacre occurs, and their are 3 survivors,, they are picked up by the local police and brought in for questioning,, alas the FBI shows up and has questions of their own,, a young woman 20 ish,, a little girl,, and a cop with a bad reputation are our survivors,, they each have different stories to tell and each one is different from the other, and leaves bits and pieces out so you're not sure who the heck the killer or killers really are,, Bill Pullman,, and Michael Ironside do great jobs in their perspective roles, later on as things are slowly revealed we start to get a clearer picture of who the killers may be,, nice big twist at the end I never seen coming, excellent thriller with lot's of twists.

My hands were a little shakier than usual when I pushed this DVD into the player – too bitter were the memories of "Boxing Helena", even more than a decade after watching that film, which would have made Ed Wood blush in embarrassment. The fact here in Germany the film was labeled „valuable", didn't help things either.Seeing the FBI agent sipping coffee while riding down a "strange highway" at the beginning of the movie, the question that came to mind was: "Jennifer, have you seen Twin Peaks too"? Had the interrogations taken place in a little diner, it wouldn't have come as a surprise. It wouldn't have been a surprise if Kyle McLachlan and the dwarf from the Red Room would have made a cameo. Question is: did Jennifer Lynch consciously rip-off her fathers style? Perhaps not; perhaps it's simply Lynch-DNA.There has been much harsh criticism about Pullman hamming it up beyond the axe-wielding range of Jack Nicholson, probably from people who either haven't seen any (David) Lynch movies or don't like them. Anybody bitching about Dennis Hopper or William Dafoe pouring their fat into the fire is off my Christmas list for good. Why Pullman doesn't get to inhale some mystery drug or shoot his head off with a shotgun is beyond my knowledge, but it's clearly a tribute to Dad … pardon, a tribute to David Lynch all along.What leaves viewers (or better, the seasoned David Lynch viewers) a bit cheesed off about the Ending is the fact that Jenifer Lynch might hold them for fools. The film pretends to be clever, as if the director really expected somebody to burst out at the end: "You mean the real FBI agents were dead from the beginning? Gosh, Jennifer! You is smart!" But she's not going to hear it from me.The ultimate question, as ever: is it a bad film? Nope, by no means; like "Saw" Part One to 15 weren't bad films if you're a gore-hound, or "So High" wasn't bad if you're a stoner. It's a good road movie. It's a good bucket of gore. It's always good to see Michael Ironside and it's even better to see him die. The die-hard David Lynch fans will nod benevolently towards the child – and wait for Jennifer to make her own debut-film.3 points from 10 – one for Michael Ironside, one because I'm a bit of a gore-hound and one for… did I mention that Jennifer is David Lynch daughter?