The Watcher

The Watcher is an atmospheric serial killer film, but the plot is a bit thin and the characters never really become engaging. That also goes for James Spader's nightmare-plagued FBI agent Joel Campbell, who is on tranquillisers and is seeing a psychiatrist, Polly Beilman, after having had to give up on catching a psychopathic serial killer. Campbell has also been transferred from the West Coast to Chicago, but unfortunately the madman, David Allen Griffin, feels so closely attached to Campbell that he moves too. What is worse, Griffin is prepared to do anything to get Campbell back into the "game".

The film is quite exciting, but as in "The Bone Collector" the ending is a little too easy and abrupt. No, it is not easy to beat "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven". And one can have enough of serial killers.