Best movie of this year hands down!

Awesome Movie

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Theatrical Film that Plays and Looks like a Movie-of-the-Week. Maybe because 23 Minutes were Cut to get that PG-13 Rating. Another Brain-Dead, Clueless Misstep by the Suits at the Studio.Because what They got and what the Film Turned into was a Pale, somewhat Palatable Picture that Flopped Miserably at the Box-Office and with Critics.It's Not a Bad Movie and does have a Good Cast with John Travolta, Vince Vaughn, and Steve Buscemi. James Lashley gives a Good Tween Performance with a lot of Screen Time. The X-Wife and Wife is Played by Rebecca Tilney who is so Let-Down by the Script that She Barely Registers.Overall, it's Inoffensive and Slightly Suspenseful, but aside from Vaughn's Intimidation of the Youngster, nothing much Disturbing happens.Note...Director Harold Becker's other "Kid in Peril" Thriller "Mercury Rising" (1998) is a great and very underrated Movie that is a "Sleeper" out there waiting to be rediscovered.

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.

This has the look of a film with production problems, and I'm willing to bet a good deal of original content ended up on the cutting room floor. Travolta's character Frank Morrison's marriage to angular beauty Teri Polo has ended, and their 12-year-old son is now living with her and nice guy Rick (Vince Vaughn), who isn't actually as nice as he appears to be. At one point, as things are going particularly badly with his son, we see Frank downing shots in a bar at double-quick time. All of a sudden he's joined, without introduction, by a middle-aged lady who may or may not be the sister of Clarence from It's a Wonderful Life, but is more likely to be Frank's AA sponsor. He's a drunk, you see, and that's why his marriage ended. The trouble is, nobody involved in the film felt this was important enough to explain until this moment, about midway through the film. And after a brief, largely inconsequential conversation Clarence's sister disappears, never to be seen or referred to again.Vince Vaughn is the best thing about this entertaining if strictly ordinary little thriller. He switches effortlessly from the image of good-looking, laid-back American male perfection – or Hollywood's perception of it, anyway – to darkly menacing bad guy, looming over the hapless Jason (James Lashley) who finds himself in something of a quandary after eavesdropping on his step-dad cold-bloodedly murdering a former partner in crime who threatened to blow over the perfect house of cards he had so painstakingly constructed for himself. When Jason blows the whistle, nobody believes him – apart from his dad – and it looks as if it's only a matter of time before he and Pop meet with 'accidents' that will get them out of Rick's hair forever.Although Domestic Disturbance is entertaining enough, there are too many incidents like the one mentioned above to make it a film worth watching. For example, I can't remember any film in which a person accused of murder is allowed to sit in on the police interview with the person making that accusation – especially when it's a 12-year-old kid. Things like that are just examples of sloppy writing, of incidents in which the writer has forsaken reality in an attempt to crank up the tension. Likewise with the lighter that once belonged to Rick's murder victim, and the speed with which Rick catches on to what Frank's been up to. The film also loses focus at times as it neglects Frank or Jason's side of the story in order to concentrate on the other's side; it's an impossible story to tell from just one point of view, but they could have found a more seamless way of splitting the perspective between father and son.