Surveillance

Surveillance (2008)

  • 55% of critics liked it
    (71 reviews)

  • 43% of users liked it
    (31,180 ratings)

An FBI agent on the trail of a serial killer attempts to capture the madman with a little assistance from his would-be victims in director Jennifer Chambers Lynch's supernatural police thriller. FBI agents Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) are on the trail of some… More

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R, 1 hr. 38 min.
Directed By
Jennifer Chambers Lynch
Written By
Kent Harper, Jennifer Lynch
Genres
Mystery & Suspense, Drama
In Theaters
Jun 26, 2009 Wide
On DVD
Aug 18, 2009
Magnet Releasing

Critic Reviews

  • Jason Anderson, Toronto Star

    Pullman's striking performance here is undermined by Lynch's overreliance on those same grisly shock tactics, as well as a script that fails to capitalize on a promising premise and then swiftly collapses upon the revelation of a not-so-shocking twist.

  • James Adams, Globe and Mail

    The film's a failure.

  • Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

    In this long-time-coming sophomore film, Lynch exercises powers of her own. She gets repellant, seductive, sympathetic performances from her actors. Ormond and Pullman are frightfully good at teasing intimacy.

  • Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger

    Its mad killers may wear masks. But the real and cheap disguise here is the film's own -- an exploitation shocker trying to pass itself off as art.

  • Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

    The most enjoyable way to watch Surveillance -- 'enjoyable' in the relative sense -- is to take its awfulness for granted and pay attention to everything Bill Pullman does.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    Wow a decent thriller with a dark slick murder mystery. If i say anything else it could give away the whole mystery. So instead I will just say watch this one.

  • Mark W


    Jennifer Chambers Lynch (daughter of the great trancendental David Lynch) made her directorial debut in 1993 with "Boxing Helena". That film recieved some scathing reviews and if my memory serves it was an absolute turkey. However, this second shot at directing is a vast… More

  • Cynthia S


    Holy cow!! You have no idea how many times I almost turned this movie off because I thought that it was stupid. Bill Pullmans weirdness, the off the wall cops, and just the strangeness of everything that was going on. Then all of a sudden everything came together and made sense. I… More

  • Dean M


    Weird thriller! It's a pretty raw movie and from the obscure opening on to the landscape shots, introduction of the characters until the unfolding of the stories begins it's interesting. Basically the movie is about a couple of FBI agents (Bill Pullman & Julia Ormond)… More

  • Robert C


    A (mostly) pleasant surprise. On a postive note the film is nicely shot and the story told in an interesting way. On the down side, most of the characters were painfully bad caricatures and the big "twist" was no surprise by the time it happened. Julia Ormond was… More

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