powermandan I first saw this movie when I was 6. It was one of the first all-out serious adult thriller films I'd seen, so I thought it was the greatest. Fastforward to my adulthood and an ample amount of movie knowledge later, and I see how little credibility and believability this movie has. But the 6-year-old inside of me still enjoys watching this.I believe this movie takes place in Baltimore. It's pretty rainy throughout the film which is a pretty standard tension cliché. We meet boat builder Frank Morrison, played very well by John Travolta. Some say he's cheesy and overacts, but I liked him. His son Danny (Matt O'Leary) constantly gets in trouble in hopes of reuniting his divorced parents. His mother Susan (Teri Polo) is marrying wealthy Rick Barnes who has a sketchy past. Rick Barnes is one of Vince Vaughn's few serious roles that he actually succeeds in. I'm surprised he hasn't done more serious roles. Comedy may be his specialty, but still.Now the acting by all is fine. If anyone doesn't like it, that's fine. I get it. But it is what surrounds the leads that's makes the film lack true emotional intensity.Danny doesn't like his mother getting married, let alone to a guy he hates. Frank tries to help the two bond, but I didn't buy it. It even goes so far as Frank going to the wedding. At the wedding, Rick is surprised to see an old friend named Ray Coleman (Steve Buscemi). Frank sees Rick's surprise and bitter agitation, so he decides to get to know Ray a bit. Frank barely knows Rick, so he worries about his son and ex-wife with a man in business with another none of them know. Rick wants to put his past with Ray behind him. One day, Susan comes home with news that she's pregnant. Danny is upset and hitches a ride to his dad's house. He heard Rick say he was going into town, so Danny hides in the back of his car. Rick picks up Ray and kills him. Danny flees and tells his father and the police. Nobody believes him. This is when the movie really gets unrealistic. Danny sees a man get murdered, so he would realistically be in shock. Next, Danny may have cried wolf before but how would he know about certain things if he wasn't there? Why didn't Danny demand to see any pictures of people Rick knew? Howcome he wasn't so insistent that he demand to stay in police custody? The police in the town are a bunch of Paul Blarts. So Rick puts a massive scares in Danny to silence him.Luckily, the movie does take some steps forward. Frank realizes that his son lies, but has never lied to him. So now we get vintage Travolta hot on the trail of Vince Vaughn, digging deep into his past. The only flaw with his investigation is how certain he is of Ray being such a big piece of the puzzle. Frank never learned anything from Ray and spent a total of just minutes with him. But at least his intuition is sharp. This is the film's mojo and the reason people like it. The truth about Rick eventually comes about in an ending that needed to be wrapped up. Everyone finds out who Rick really is and there's a prolonged awesome showdown. There are flaws and a lack of credibility. But the movie knows just what to do keep the audience enjoyed and entranced.

videorama-759-859391 The title I must say is cleverly catchy. Vaughn in one of his best roles, where he actually acts, plays a man with a not so inviting past, and is prone to violence. Only problem is, he's about to marry Travolta's ex, Teri Polo, who's juvenile of a son is unaccepting of the arrangement, distrustful of him. Travolta too isn't too happy about this either, but his son's words of warning fall on death ears, as this sounds like just another ploy, to get Mummy And Daddy hitched again. Vaughn is really unnerving in this. Too, at the most baddest of timing, a shady acquaintance of Vaughn's, (Buscemi, who's very good) pops back into his life threatening to put a rift into Vaughn's seemingly happy life, by spilling the beans, where soon he has to be taken out of the equation. Domestic Disturbance comes off pretty much as a barely adequate psychological thriller/drama if something that just slips through, to earn a cinema release. It's mostly a drama than anything else, no real thrills or surprises at all, this, more a disappointment, where this is from the guy who brought you Sea Of love and Malice. Travolta isn't anything special. In fact he's rather ordinary where ex (Polo) is much better where the son was very good too. Most twists of suspense fall flat, where this film could of been much more. What has eventuated, is a sheer just slipping through the cracks, thriller, one that rides on a linear or thin plot. The opening beaty music score with daunting tones was about the best thing I liked about the film. Lightweight, standard drama fare.

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.

Leofwine_draca Diluted thrills abound in this uninvolving re-run of THE STEPFATHER, in which a precocious youngster discovers that his new parent is, in fact, a cold-blooded killer who'll do anything to keep his crime a secret. Mainly getting by on the star presence of John Travolta alone, DOMESTIC DISTURBANCE is a well shot film that suffers from a weak script packed with Hollywood cliché. From the first twist, everything that plays out is entirely predictable, nowhere more so than the oh-so-boring climax that sees the protagonists trapped in their own home by a psychopath. From DISTURBIA to WHAT LIES BELOW, every film in the past ten years seems to end in exactly the same fashion and it's quickly become tiresome.Up until then, the film is serviceable but never surprising. The script foists upon us weak characters and it's hard to find somebody to care about – not least Matt O'Leary's brattish youngster. Vince Vaughn, so typecast in comedy these days, is never a threatening presence and you keep expecting him to crack a joke in his supposedly dramatic sequences. Teri Polo doesn't register, and only Steve Buscemi excels as a typical kook. As for Travolta, he's running through the motions, playing on the good nature he's won from audiences since PULP FICTION and never threatening to actually surprise us by acting.