SincereFinest disgusting, overrated, pointless

ChicDragon It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.

Voxitype Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

sevastianov88 "Lisa" is a thriller about a serial killer. It's a typical one and it's nothing new. But it's not dumb. It has logic, real characters and style. Nonetheless, it lacks something. Mr. Sherman is a clever skillful director, but never genius. He's a pragmatist. His approach is totally scientific. Even directing "Poltergeist 3" he turned Spielberg's fairy- tale into collective hallucinations caused by hypnosis of a troubled girl. OK, there are a lot of great atheistic directors, but anyway creativity requires some kind of irrationality – a little madness, a struggle within. Ingmar Begman was struggling with his childhood's beliefs. To Cronenberg, body is a religion – body (or mind) mutation is his understanding of sin. But Sherman knows there's no God, no soul, no afterlife, and he's cool with it. I guess that's why there's no nerve in his movies – there are too mundane. He sees no miracle in being alive, in trying to survive.The movie has a simple logical story about a girl named Lisa how's young pretty mother forbids her to date boys because she's afraid her daughter will end up pregnant just like herself 14 years ago. So Lisa had to find some alternative ways to get to the opposite sex – first she imagines some romances with George Michaels and other adult celebrities, then she starts a telephone relationship with a handsome man she met in the street. And that handsome man happens to be a serial killer…. Sounds a little bit like William Castle's "I saw what you did". Anyway.Everything in this movie is really good. Script is straight and honest. Acting is much better than you could expect from a typical thriller. Although the main character is a school-girl, the movie is never childish – surely it's not for teenagers, but rather for their parents. But overall it's not brilliant. Sherman never made trash or masterpieces – he was always somewhere above average, touching neither ground nor sky.In the end, I like the movie. It's not cheesy and the director doesn't treat the viewers for fools. But there's no "magical" spark. No poetry. It's nowhere near "Basic Instinct" – Verhoeven is pragmatist/atheist too, but he feels the sexual tension between his characters like it really matters to him and to us. I would recommend it - just don't expect too much.

FilmOtaku This film is a prime example of seeing a movie for the first time and liking it, then viewing it again years later and finding it completely ridiculous. I wouldn't put such a strong label as "completely ridiculous" on this film, but it's fairly close descriptor. "Lisa" is the story of a teenager who, with her best friend, basically stalk men that they think are "cute": Keeping scrapbooks of their polaroid snapshots, etc. This tactic finally goes horribly wrong when Lisa inadvertently fixes her attention on a man who ends up being "The Candlelight Killer", a serial killer who is terrorizing the city.As stated earlier, I had seen this movie about 12 years ago and thought it was fairly suspenseful. None of that suspense was apparent to me watching it this time, and unfortunately I can't blame it on knowing what was going to happen because I couldn't remember any of the scenes. The only vaguely interesting element to the film that made the film barely tolerable was the fact that the eventual "victim" was unknowingly stalking the killer - but I think I'm being generous in my assessment. This was basically a straight to video type film that could have been featured on the Lifetime network, and probably has been since it also features the horrible Cheryl Ladd. Unless you have a lot of patience to sit through a film with an unfulfilling ending, I would suggest bypassing this one.--Shelly

star83 I enjoyed this movie, and I don't enjoy most. This movie, although its main character is a teenie bopper, is quite satisfying. There is a killer, victims, suspense, and its surprisingly, interesting. It held my interest, and I wanted to know what would happen next. The acting wasn't that bad, either. This movie is surprisingly, good.

Onelifer I thought this was a very good thriller as well as chilling, especially towards the end. Cheryl Ladd is one of my favorite actresses and I was riveted to her performance. She has done several riveting performances, but this one was one movie I could see over and over again. Staci Keanan was good as well, I've know her to do comedy as she did with Greg Evigan in "My Two Dad's", but her acting in a thriller/drama gave her more depth as an actress. Very good