Shevy1103 Domestic Disturbance starring both John Travolta and Vince Vaughn was a good movie. that is my opening statement. Keep reading for the rest.It was nice. it had many good lines or comments, some were even funny and made me laugh. I laughed several times during this movie. It had great scenery and a great back-story plus a more than adequate script. They could have been a bit more creative instead of basing the movie on classic scenes from so many other movies, but ah well. So, in other words, it was worth watching. I liked it. Others may not have, but I did. Everyone is allowed to have their own opinion. Besides, it's like this with all movies and everything else in the world. Some like it and some don't. That is just the way it is in this world of ours.The acting was superb on some parts, others (thinking of Vince Vaughn)not so much. Travolta did a good job as he usually does. Mr. Vaughn had an easy role of which he could have done a much better job with (hell, a blind and deaf chimpanzee without any ability to speak could have done a better job), but all in all he did a good job. His character was convincing. And then there is Buscemi, playing Roy. He never lets me down. He is one of those who never do a bad job, not even a little! He is one of the greatest actors there is! So, obviously he did a great, fantastic, awesome and superb job playing his part as the shady yet nice character Roy Coleman.The start was great, the ending not so much, but nothing is perfect anyways. The movie itself was great with the turning points and the characters and everything. I enjoyed it, I did.This is a thriller, obviously. A thriller movie with a little comedy stuffed in it. It was thrilling at times. They could have made it more thrilling, but they didn't, and there is nothing to do about that. A big part of the movie were clichés. Some fit in and made it better, others did not. There were also parts that everyone could see coming, they were easy to foresee, but that doesn't make it bad, but it takes away a part of the thrill of the movie.So, this movie was enjoyable on a late spring night like this one. And after taking all of the things I said about the movie into consideration, I have decided to give this movie, "Domestic Disturbance", 4 stars out of 10 possible.Rating: 4/10.Thanks for reading, goodnight and sleep tight.J.J. Shevy

Tss5078 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.

johnnyboyz How is one to react to a film whose idea of a chief source for dramatic content, indeed entertainment, is the ambiguity surrounding whether or not a frail and insecure twelve year old boy is going to get his either head bashed in or is going to fall foul of being suffocated to death? Broken down into its rawest of forms, Harold Becker's 2001 film Domestic Disturbance is a cheap; flimsy; nasty 89 minute exercise in sleazy thrills pumping through the motions and applying deadening logic in the process of begging the audience for some sort of reaction: "Look! Look at that! React, go on; react!" Prominent British director Alfred Hitchcock of oft Hollywood residence would call on the unexpected; would call upon the unpredictable and the outrageous, but would almost always be able pull it back by the end in a manner that would see it sync the preceding actions up with what the truth of the matter really was. Things were preordained and made sense in most of Hitchcock's films, but the nifty nature of most of his thrillers were that they were never channelled in a glaringly obvious manner at the time of their happening.Domestic Disturbance film will begin with some disfigured opening titles in the mould of Hitchcock's famous thriller Psycho, itself a film that happened to insert into proceedings a dangerous man appearing friendly. In a similar mould to that of the aforementioned thriller's part-time lead Marion Crane, we witness a car driving what appears to be an awfully long way over these titles; a prominent theme tune inferring a certain amount of dread overlying proceedings and things kick off expansively on a bright day to some fancy camera-work, but in essence, the only item connecting Becker's tedious thriller to Hitchock's masterstroke is that of the fact his villain here played the villain there in a 1998 remake.The film settles into following that of a boat builder in Frank Morrison, played by John Travolta; a charming and upstanding individual with a career in something that has him create items in a very articulate, very precise manner for the pleasure of others. Here is a man whose kindness extends so far, that he is willing to risk his business disappearing altogether due to his generosity; he's a well natured, everyday sort of a guy with his feet on the ground and head in the right place: when the new owners of a fancy boat he's just built them celebrate with champagne, he opts out for a straight-up beer. Frank is a man carrying out a craft that was taught to him by that of his father; now doing his utmost in passing on said trades downwards onto his own son, the aptly played Danny (O'Leary), without ever necessarily being forcing or overbearing in the process.Through some insane instance or two, Teri Polo's Susan has split from our Frank and opted instead to shack up with Vince Vaughn's Rick Barnes; a guy whose stock price in a pharmaceutical company went sky-high and as a result, retreated out to this idyllic community of yachts and warm weather to start enjoying life. With Danny arrives various issues of delinquency and rebellious behaviour. I suppose you would be on edge if your father was as kind as Travolta is here and if your home was one of those detached, whitewashed residences from around the late 18th Century you might get in places like Maine - yeah, I guess any kid almost have to be on the Ritalin from day one in that domestic set up. Danny's problems are put to us solely so as to pump up suspense during later reveals, suspense born out of whether anyone's going to believe this unruly kid and what he says. Surprise: they don't.Things seems to work out well in the beginning; Frank bears no grudge towards Rick nor Susan and they marry without issue. It's here things get tricker; Danny's ending up unnoticed in the boot of his new step-father's automobile has him witness the murder of one of Rick's old "business cohorts", whose true reasons for being in the sleepy town are more broadly linked to Rick's real persona. One thing leads to another, and Danny falls under the watchful evil-eye of his new relative as Susan idly stands by and Frank maintains a deeply routed sense of trust about the situation as everything plays out.Some of the more annoying sequences include that of Teri Polo. When you want a passive, dopey, mandatorily stupid middle aged blonde female character, whose voice could cut through panes of glass, you go to someone like Teri Polo to play the (delete as appropriate) wife/girl-friend/partner whose hapless task it is to spout all the customary dialogue and patronising crap to her kid once the catalyst happens and no one believes him. There was another instance of it happening in a film from the same year: Joe Johnston's Jurassic Park sequel, in which Téa Leoni (why do all these annoying women and their names look the same on paper!?) was required to do all the stuff you shouldn't do at exactly the time it wasn't required: "Honey! Dr. Grant says that's a bad idea." "....says WHAT'S a bad idea?" The film is all surface and zero substance; a series of obligatory set-ups relying on a sense of suspense, although getting very little out of its audience bar the proverbial clipboard complete with sheet of paper housing a list of phrases; some tickable empty squared boxes beside them and a chunky HB pencil, that falls flat on its face in what is a trudging, unholy mess of a picture.

raisleygordon If you like movies about people who use sincerity to hide a dark side, then "Domestic Disturbance" is for you. But if you're looking for something with a twist on the genre, then you'd better look elsewhere. This movie has absolutely nothing fresh in it, but it makes up for that as pure entertainment. Unlike "The Stepfather", this one has a new character, the ex of the woman whom the stepfather is about to marry. Stop me if you've heard this one: A man's ex-wife marries a very suspicious man, kid starts suspecting something's wrong, kid witnesses his evil stepfather kill someone, everyone (but the uncle) doubts the kid until it's almost too late, evil stepfather tries beating the hell out of everyone, everyone else lives happily ever after.*** out of ****