Domestic Disturbance (2001)

Plenty to Like, Plenty to Dislike

hyped garbage

Good movie but grossly overrated

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Domestic Disturbance starring both John Travolta and Vince Vaughn was a good movie. that is my opening statement. Keep reading for the rest.It was nice. it had many good lines or comments, some were even funny and made me laugh. I laughed several times during this movie. It had great scenery and a great back-story plus a more than adequate script. They could have been a bit more creative instead of basing the movie on classic scenes from so many other movies, but ah well. So, in other words, it was worth watching. I liked it. Others may not have, but I did. Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion. Besides, it's like this with all movies and everything else in the world. Some like it and some don't. That is just the way it is in this world of ours.The acting was superb on some parts, others (thinking of Vince Vaughn)not so much. Travolta did a good job as he usually does. Mr. Vaughn had an easy role of which he could have done a much better job with (hell, a blind and deaf chimpanzee without any ability to speak could have done a better job), but all in all he did a good job. His character was convincing. And then there is Buscemi, playing Roy. He never lets me down. He is one of those who never do a bad job, not even a little! He is one of the greatest actors there is! So, obviously he did a great, fantastic, awesome and superb job playing his part as the shady yet nice character Roy Coleman.The start was great, the ending not so much, but nothing is perfect anyways. The movie itself was great with the turning points and the characters and everything. I enjoyed it, I did.This is a thriller, obviously. A thriller movie with a little comedy stuffed in it. It was thrilling at times. They could have made it more thrilling, but they didn't, and there is nothing to do about that. A big part of the movie were clichés. Some fit in and made it better, others did not. There were also parts that everyone could see coming, they were easy to foresee, but that doesn't make it bad, but it takes away a part of the thrill of the movie.So, this movie was enjoyable on a late spring night like this one. And after taking all of the things I said about the movie into consideration, I have decided to give this movie, "Domestic Disturbance", 4 stars out of 10 possible.Rating: 4/10.Thanks for reading, goodnight and sleep tight.J.J. Shevy

I agree entirely with a previous reviewer that this film obtains the momentum to reach its conclusion via the idiocy of the major characters. I would add to their list of ridiculous behaviour the fact that it seemingly never occurs to Travolta's character that he might want to ask his son whether the murdered man looked like Steve Buscemi's character. Instead this apparently doesn't happen, and enough doubt is left in his mind to leave his son in the same house as the killer for several nights.I have read that the jokes in Christmas crackers are deliberately poor, the actual intent being to elicit groans around the dinner table, which apparently 'brings people together'. The effect was similar with those who I watched this movie with.

Ask yourself this, what if you witnessed a crime and no one believed you? Better yet, what if you were a kid when this happened? That is the premise of this modern day thriller, Domestic Disturbance. It isn't the perfect movie, but the story, while predictable, was still so much fun to watch. As for the cast, John Travolta and Vince Vaughn alone should tell you that you're in for something special. I know a lot of people love Vaughn, I don't, but he was great in this film. Matthew O'Leary, a newcomer back then, seemed as thou he's been doing this for years, acting as the perfect go between and playing his role flawlessly. Domestic Disturbance is fun, exciting, and has an unbelievable cast. Besides the predictability, the only other thing I can say negatively about this film was that it wasn't long enough! I really enjoyed it and didn't want it to end.

Diluted thrills abound in this uninvolving re-run of THE STEPFATHER, in which a precocious youngster discovers that his new parent is, in fact, a cold-blooded killer who'll do anything to keep his crime a secret. Mainly getting by on the star presence of John Travolta alone, DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE is a well shot film that suffers from a weak script packed with Hollywood cliché. From the first twist, everything that plays out is entirely predictable, nowhere more so than the oh-so-boring climax that sees the protagonists trapped in their own home by a psychopath. From DISTURBIA to WHAT LIES BELOW, every film in the past ten years seems to end in exactly the same fashion and it's quickly become tiresome.Up until then, the film is serviceable but never surprising. The script foists upon us weak characters and it's hard to find somebody to care about – not least Matt O'Leary's brattish youngster. Vince Vaughn, so typecast in comedy these days, is never a threatening presence and you keep expecting him to crack a joke in his supposedly dramatic sequences. Teri Polo doesn't register, and only Steve Buscemi excels as a typical kook. As for Travolta, he's running through the motions, playing on the good nature he's won from audiences since PULP FICTION and never threatening to actually surprise us by acting.