Watcher (2022) Review

Watcher (2022) A young actress who just moved to an apartment in Bucharest with her boyfriend, finds a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street who might be a serial killer.

This thriller is perfect… until the last ten minutes! Those minutes are enough to make the movie go from five to three stars. Indeed, the plot is good, the story is interesting. As for Maika Monroe, she is of a striking naturalness. Her acting is impeccable. In this film we feel the discomfort of being in a country where we do not understand the language, as well as the embarrassment of being observed all the time by a neighbor across the street.

The turns that things take are quite bluffing. The anguish, the anxiety remain present all along.
The problem is that at the end, there is some incoherence that makes the whole tragic and dramatic side to a comedy plan. And that comes across rather badly. And the coup de grace is that it ends in a fishtail. One wishes there had been ten more minutes. It’s as if the director had noticed that there are sometimes ten minutes too many in many films and that, therefore, he preferred to stop ten minutes before. Alas, this quickly turns it from a masterpiece to just a good movie.