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| | The Watcher (2000): Keanu Reeves, James Spader, Marisa Tomei, Ernie Hudson - PopMatters Film Review |
 | | I mean, yes, the female avenger in the splatter flicks of yore is also immersed in anxiety and paranoia but only near the end, after an hour and a half of running, hiding, and repeatedly witnessing murders. |
 | | So The Watcher's victims start off where the heroines of movies like Friday the 13th end up, but it doesn't matter much because the desperation and terror that drove old-time splatter movie heroines to solitude and psychotic rage isn't quite available to The Watcher's victims anyhow. |
 | | In the place of, say, Jamie Lee Curtis's consuming fight-or-flight reflex, the women in The Watcher generally respond to their plights with a surreal, light-headed complacency more typical of damsels in '50s movies like It Came From Outer Space which is to say, they faint. |
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