Neighborhood Watch

It's the gated community of Shady Grove. Lindsay Porter (Julie McNiven) has been divorced for two year and has teenage daughter Jamie. She owns a local gym and Valerie is a new employee who left her abusive ex-husband. Stephen Lane is the new neighbor. Kat Riley is the single real estate agent who sold Stephen the house. Nikki is Jamie's best friend and Janet Chung is Nikki's mother. Barrett is the night watchman. Despite vowing never to marry again, Lindsay starts dating Stephen.

After reading all the bad reviews, I got interested. Apparently, the music and sound design annoyed some people. The sound design is bad at the start. The non-stop music cues get annoying. The story itself intrigued me with a whodunnit which I like. Once the reveal happens, the culprit becomes a ridiculous psycho. The villain turn is so over the top that whatever appeal is lost. Up until that point, I almost forgive the movie for all its flaws.

Just airing in the UK and there's nil to say that hasn't been said about the awful background music and terrible dialogue.

A neighborhood watch scheme attended by women only. Only men around was the post guy, the security guard and the wimpey star actor.

The daughter and her friends look the same age as the mum.

Did no one really play this back and listen to the racket. Conversation between the leads impossible to hear completely.

Hour in the music is that loud I've started to notice other dumb things about the film.

Mum goes mad when the daughter receives a text at 10pm ? She's like 17/18 years old.

Daughter has one friend she never sees or speaks to?

Police guy is dumb and just blurts out information in an open forum.

New man does no work.

Just total dumbness all round.

I'm not sure what the 10 reviewers were watching but it certainly wasn't this movie.

The only thing that kept me guessing throught this film was what the characters were actually saying!? The music and background effects are ridiculously loud to the point that I thought it had to be some mistake that nobody noticed!!!

The only way you're going to be able to follow the plot is with subtitles, but it seems that even whoever was transcribing had the same problem as it just comes up with "Inaudible" in various places!

Shame really, it's not a bad film as far as channel 5 afternoon mystery thrillers go.

Good enough film but ridiculous loud background music, so loud at times didn't know what was being said by the actors.

Yes the sound is abominable like everyone else has said. But - so is the acting, the script (which fortunately you miss a lot of due to the music) the storyline, the set/scenery. There is absolutely nothing redeeming about this film. I only watched to the end as the plumber was fixing the boiler and I needed to be out of his way. Says it all.....