Tockinit not horrible nor great

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

mraculeated The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Brooklynn There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

stowevt024 GREAT DRAMA. The story is about male/female FBI Agents who are investigating a rash of serial killings in some rural communities. They go to a local police station where survivors of a recent killing are there waiting to be interviewed by the Agents. The Chief of the Police Department and two other police officers as well as a dispatcher are there to greet them. As the interviews go on we see through a series flash backs what actually happened at this one scene of an attack where most of the members of a family are brutally murdered along with a police officer and another male. One police officer, a young girl (the surviving member of the family) and a woman are the only witnesses left alive. By the end of the movie all of them, with the exception of the little girl, are killed along with the three other police officers and the dispatcher aforementioned. It is a WHODUNIT that fooled my wife and myself in the end. The plot twist at the end threw both of us for a loop. I highly recommend this movie.Spoiler ALERT!!!!! I have to disagree with the naysayers who have rated this movie poorly based on why the killers bothered to interview and eventually kill the witnesses to the killings...IT'S BECAUSE THEY COULD!!! They knew that no one else was coming because they had killed the real FBI agents and they wanted to have, in their minds, a little fun, and they did just that. That was the whole premise and the naysayers failed to get it. You have to look at it through the serial killers eyes, they had all the power and they knew it and they were going to enjoy their time with that power.

bored donquixote i really liked the movie and got by surprise by the twist toward the end.With a calculated direction and storytelling the deciphering of the film starts immediately from the title.So Surveillance,everything begin with the unquestioning authority and that same trait is what brings the unfortunate demise of many characters in the film.We see it with the authority of the FBI agents in the present time line,we see it with the authority of the police officers in the past towards the drivers.Surveillance inherently holds a benevolent and lawful intention for the one who accomplishes it but that is not the case here.There is almost a divine tone in the surveillance when it is done.FBI agent speaking unseen through the microphone,the same when the police officers tell drivers to return to their cars.In both cases they also display a quality of the voice of conscience to their subjects.The trial ends when the subjects adjust accordingly.But that is not the key to their survival.The only survivor is the little girl who,as Pullman said,figured them out!And he implies that is a condition to not be killed.Also in the case of the officers when the little girl,unfazed from their previous despicable actions,speaks with them,they seem to briefly return to how a real cop should act! There is also an amoral showcase from many characters and i could say that that includes the little girl.Children in arts usually represent the purity of the soul and thus a direct reflection of their environment.If you recall ,many characters in a humorous way try to either save their asses or satisfy their needs when in a critical situation.The little girl(whose parents ,lets not forget,do not allow her to watch horror movies and the news broadcast and she knows well how blood looks like ) has oddly an unfazed attitude towards the death of her family or as Pullman says''kids are more resilient'' Indeed the way she used her knowledge of the facts and of the reality of the Surveillance is a mirror of the ways of the adults in the film.Interestingly and disturbingly her attitude was not an evaluation rather than an instinct to abandon the ignorant around her.Her surveillance,coming from her family,coming from the world ,produced that.Also lets not forget that the female FBI agent when seeing her remembers herself being a sad little girl and Pullmans remarks about it that she can not save her.For that last one to be honest i am not sure if i am right but hooray to me for at least the effort!!!a surrealistic prism to nihilism,i recommend this film to everyone!come aboard mates!!!

bowmanblue In case you don't know, the writer/director of 'Surveillance' is Jennifer (daughter of renowned master of the surreal David) Lynch. So, if you've seen anything from Blue Velvet to Mullholland Drive (or any other of 'Daddy' Lynch's work, you'll probably know what to expect from his offspring.Like her father, she delves deep into places most of us would rather not go. Here, two FBI agents arrive in a small town, hot on the trail of a couple of wanted serial killers. Unfortunately, they're too late to stop a spree of killings, but do their best to piece together the carnage from the handful of survivors who have made it out alive.The characters are a wide and varied bunch, but, what unites them is that they're all pretty unlikable. Yes, there is a little girl who brings a touch of innocence to the film and – rightly so – she even won an award for her performance. But the rest of them are pretty dark – even the ones who you're supposed to root for! Much of the tale is told through the eyes of the survivors, making the film mainly a series of flashbacks which are open to interpretation.You get a fair amount of (what I'd call) 'Pulp Fiction-esque' dialogue which shows us more about the characters, rather than speeds the plot along. This can either work well, or drag the story along. I'm glad to say that it does the job here. Again, like her father, the dialogue is pretty cringe worthy to listen to, largely due to its content and how awkward and uncomfortable it makes the (few innocent) characters feel.However, unlike David Lynch's films, this one is a little more straight forward. His tend to be very open to interpretation, whereas Surveillance has a definitely 'beginning, middle and end.' Yes, it can be a little jumbled sometimes, but you shouldn't have any trouble keeping up, especially if you're in the mood for something very dark and twisted.

imdb-4992 I so wish I had taken the time to read the reviews here before I traumatized myself by watching this garbage. I thought that because it had some recognizable actors/actresses in it, it would have some redeeming qualities. At first, it catches your attention, because you're not exactly sure of what you're seeing. The format of showing flashbacks to previous events was used, but you were never sure of what was going on. I knew from the description that it was the point of view of three different witnesses, so I was expecting some confusion. What I wasn't expecting was how violent it turned, and without any purpose. I can handle violence if it is part of a story that makes sense, but this was too much. Then it ended as poorly as I was expecting, leaving a bitter taste for my time wasted. It actually left me feeling violated. I hope that his review will prevent somebody else from being abused by watching this trash. I have seen literally thousands of movies that are so much better than this. I'm actually shocked that somebody paid to make this movie. Bill Pullman needs to fire his agent and show better judgment in the movie roles he takes.