The Voyeurs

Name: The Voyeurs
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Released: September 10, 2021
Rating: 54
Cast: Ben Hardy, Cait Alexander, Caitlyn Sponheimer, Daniel Grogan, Emily Shelton

2021

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Amazon Studios | Release Date (Streaming): September 10, 2021 | R

Starring: Ben Hardy, Cait Alexander, Caitlyn Sponheimer, Daniel Grogan, Emily Shelton, Justice Smith, Katharine King So, Madelline Harvey, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Noah Parker, Sarah Donna, Sydney Sweeney

Summary: After moving into a beautiful loft apartment in Downtown Montreal, a young couple (Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith), find themselves becoming increasingly interested in the sex life of their eccentric neighbors across the street (Ben Hardy and Natasha Liu Bordizzo). What starts out as an innocent curiosity slowly turns into an unhealthyAfter moving into a beautiful loft apartment in Downtown Montreal, a young couple (Sydney Sweeney and Justice Smith), find themselves becoming increasingly interested in the sex life of their eccentric neighbors across the street (Ben Hardy and Natasha Liu Bordizzo). What starts out as an innocent curiosity slowly turns into an unhealthy obsession, after they discover that one of these neighbors is cheating on the other. Temptation and desire cause their lives to become tangled together in unexpected ways, leading to deadly consequences. … Expand

Director: Michael Mohan

Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Rating: R

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Screen Rant Ferdosa Abdi

Sep 10, 2021

In The Voyeurs, writer-director Michael Mohan takes all the lessons of the truly wild erotic thrillers of the 1990s and brings them into the modern age. With a dose of Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window and Brian De Palma’s Body Double, The Voyeurs perfectly captures all there is to love about the genre. Read full review

The Guardian Charles Bramesco

Sep 8, 2021

Mohan handles his audience with care, diligence, attentiveness, creativity, smoldering passion – the mind positively swims with sexual metaphors. That’s the headspace in which this film leaves us: a well-made gutter we haven’t had the chance to visit for far too long. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Nick Allen

Sep 10, 2021

The Voyeurs craves to be the most salacious, outrageous non-pornographic movie you stream this weekend, and that itself is enticing. But it becomes a nice bonus that while giving you some gratuitous page-turning thrills, Mohan also juggles art, sex, and death, and dares to go more than skin-deep. Read full review

The Playlist Lauren J. Coates

Sep 8, 2021

From the stiff leading performances to the clunky, pretentious dialogue, The Voyeurs often feels like an amateur outing, but there’s also genuine wit in the film’s visual storytelling (particularly a number of clever match cuts), and an unpredictable enough payoff in the third act that it makes for a fresh, memorable viewing experience. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Sep 9, 2021

One wonders how a master of truly twisted movies — say, a David Lynch or a Brian De Palma — would have approached “The Voyeurs.” One suspects they would have a bit more fun and taken us further down the moral rabbit hole. And the sex would have been better too. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Sep 9, 2021

By the time we reach the insanely dubious final twist of The Voyeurs, we’d rather just look the other way. Read full review

Johnny Oleksinski

Sep 10, 2021

Writer-director Michael Mohan’s “drama” tries to be a modern Rear Window (emphasis on “rear”), but Hitchcock it ain’t. The Voyeurs is a cheap, never-ending trifle that takes itself more seriously than Hamlet. Read full review

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Slackerjosh

Jun 9, 2022

This is a good movie with plot twists, some predictable, some less, that inch this moves towards great. Sex scenes are fun, plot has some flaws. Characters and acting are a bit half baked. So yes, less than great, but interesting, compelling. In all, I enjoyed and recommended this movie to friends.

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deck

Sep 11, 2021

difficult start but worth it. strong performers and strong plot. can lead to discussions.

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Habibiehakim

Sep 12, 2021

This is gonna be the first time that i hate the movie from the beginning till near the end, then an unexpected twist come, and it change my mind completely, the performance was average, and yes there is some pretty a lot of cringy and corny moment, and yet there is some cool shot in theThis is gonna be the first time that i hate the movie from the beginning till near the end, then an unexpected twist come, and it change my mind completely, the performance was average, and yes there is some pretty a lot of cringy and corny moment, and yet there is some cool shot in the film, The Vayeurs have lot of potential being a really good movie, and if it's not because of that clever twist, it's not gonna be at least "pretty good", this is the first time that a twist in a movie really change my mind from hate it to say that this is a pretty good movie.… Expand

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JLuis_001

Sep 16, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There will be a lot of talk about other films that have to do with a plot that involves voyeurism, but by doing so, you will be sinking this film even more due to completely wrong expectations and results.

I think it's a bad film, that tries to make use of a very cheap eroticism to hook the viewers because of its obvious lack of an intelligent and more interesting plot.

In any film, the viewers are voyeurs, the nature of cinema is like that, and what we have left is to react to what we see.
The same thing happens here in this film.
The story forces them to react when watching is no longer enough, and the way in which the protagonists, especially the female character, get into the lives of their entertainers, is to a certain extent absurd, because it feels completely built to force them to make it happen. This in order for the twists to work.

The whole story is built on Sydney Sweeney's character getting reasons to be unfaithful. Her partner Justice Smith couldn't be more irrelevant in this film.

Her character interferes in a marriage, causes an apparent suicide, and ends up destroying her relationship and causing another suicide by consummating her infidelity with the man she accused of being unfaithful in the first place, who, as the film mentions, was a depressed widower whom she stalked.

All of this happens in a way that is not only implausible but it feels just ridiculous and stupid. And reaches hilarious levels when the film reveals its plot twist that concludes with a totally unsatisfactory revenge climax.

So underwhelming.… Expand

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JeBjBo

Aug 6, 2023

Two stars for each of Ben Hardy's butt cheeks! But seriously, this movie starts out pretty okay, then a "thing" happens, then another, then another, and so on. And every "thing" gets more crazy.

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hnestlyonthesly

Jan 14, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The Voyeurs is a fundamentally stupid film and it's important to recognize that before getting angry about the time it's stolen from you that you will never, ever get back. It bills itself as a sexy, playful inheritor to voyeur genre films like Rear Window, Blow Up, the 'Burbs, and would-be-solved-if-she-got-a-job movies like Puzzle and Woman in the Window. Detective Pikachu and Sydney Sweeney make an unlikely pair of mousey hipsters, living their best life writing jingles for American pharmaceutical commercials for ED and helping people find their best selves in new glasses. Despite the fact that there are some overtures at trying to make biracial sexy--most of the pairings for sexy sex scenes are between our impossibly ripped and disappointingly puerile-faced boy next door--Detective Pikachu is neutered and the climactic tryst is between the two white characters of the movie who've been magnetically pulled toward one another the entire time. The movie is poison because it takes about half an hour for the girl next door to kill herself in a fit of passion after her husband's infidelity is revealed to her anonymously through a printer (presumably because it was the cleanest visual they could come up with without involving texting?). The husband doesn't bother to investigate the anonymous notes directing his suicidal wife to search for condoms in the bathroom, because why would he? Which is one of the many problems with the premise. All the plotholes don't matter, because they're not plotholes, they're intentionally suspended, so that Sweeney has more rope to hang herself, so to speak. Which, oddly enough, leads me to the second suicide, which is really when this movie goes into warp speed stupid. Instead of getting the emotional climax here, we shift into some lazy, numb montage of grief which has the effect of sweeping what is going to become the pivotal death of the movie under the rug. Sweeney's heart-to-heart with her coworker, revealing her complicity in not one but TWO suicides is a template for the worst possible movie advice, equal parts synopsis and nonsense logic meant to ease Sweeney into a false sense of security for long enough for her to feel sexually desirable enough to put on some makeup and show up for a gallery showing at the boy next door's show. Just in time to discover that--yes, you guessed it--the suicide was performance art the whole time. The first one, not the second one. Detective Pikachu is still dead. But don't worry, his death isn't actually a suicide. It's a murder. This is going to give Sweeney the opportunity to lure the performance artists into her place of work, which is visually important, because we've been primed by cut scenes involving eggs for the past hour to expect that someone's eyes are gonna get crushed. It's also delightfully retrograde that their punishment is that they become visually impaired.

It's hard to overstate how impossibly thirsty this movie is for your attention by the 90 min mark. And as someone who recently spawned a gremlin it's hard not to feel personally victimized by this movie's click-baity approaches.

Simple Google search might have uncovered the fact that the photographer-model couple are, in fact, canny performance artists and--importantly--collaborators, not mismatched lovers caught in an abusive relationship. The premise relies on you accepting that the entire action of the first act of the movie is entirely choreographed for the solipsistic benefit of the Detective and Sweeney, giving it some intense Truman Show vibes but without the benefit, drama, or comedy, of Truman's turn, when he begins to take advantage of the restrictions of his own surveillance.

The Voyeurs would've benefited from cutting their losses early, also, including a pokemon or two? Cannot imagine a film better suited to roll out directly to streaming and fall directly to the bottom of your queue.… Expand

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GoodEyeClosed

Sep 23, 2021

This movie is bearable for about 30 minutes. Then it just becomes boring. At about the half-way point, I was just mildly annoyed with the characters. Then the final act comes, and the movie transforms itself from mildly annoying to infuriating. This is hands down the worst movie I'veThis movie is bearable for about 30 minutes. Then it just becomes boring. At about the half-way point, I was just mildly annoyed with the characters. Then the final act comes, and the movie transforms itself from mildly annoying to infuriating. This is hands down the worst movie I've ever seen. If it didn't try to take itself so seriously, it would've been passable as standard, run of the mill erotic-thriller trash, but the writer seems to genuinely believe he's the next Hitchcock, so he preemptively tries to close up some of the *many* gaping plot holes. The problem is, the explanations are way dumber than the movie would have been if he just left them as gaping plot holes. Absolute trash.… Expand

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