Surveillance

Name: Surveillance
Director: Jennifer Lynch
Released: 2008

Synopsis

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.

60
Village Voice
Surveillance is the work of a director who has made significant strides in both storytelling and control of the medium, deftly interweaving a grisly thriller, a sicko "Rashômon," a switcheroo, a psychotic love story, an imaginative paean to children, and an inspired resurrection of Julia Ormond.
50
The Hollywood Reporter
Surveillance will please the B-movie crowd in theaters and on into the ancillaries
50
New York Post
Either a ludicrously bad movie or a parody of same. Either way, it's pretty funny.
42
The A.V. Club
Surveillance suggests "Jennifer Lynchian" should be used for films that aspire to David’s moody, idiosyncratic genius and fall woefully short.
40
Film Threat
In the end, Surveillance is a puzzle box film that has nothing to offer except the various puzzle pieces. The characters do not stand out, the drama is not compelling, and the screenplay is light on even remotely interesting dialogue.
40
Variety
A mildly amusing trifle with one of the genre's dafter plot twists.
30
Los Angeles Times
At the end, all is horrifically explained, the body count inflates, yet hardly anything makes sense. In Papa Lynch's films, little is explained, yet because he's so gifted at mining our deepest fears and scariest desires, logic is excused.
25
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.