Glass House

Pros: Pleasurable foreplay.
Cons: Wet-noodle climaxes.

The Glass House boasts such a spectacular first-half that it's a real shame the follow-through is so decidedly lacking, so chock-full of mind-numbing contrivance and illogic, so blatantly insulting to any simpleton's intelligence that it ...

Pros: Stellan Skarsgard, Leelee Sobieski, mood music, setting
Cons: unoriginal plot, dialogue, ending, most of the acting

You know the movie type: The __From Hell. This is another addition to the genre. So...this is what America is going to the movies for today?

Picture this.
There I am, all alone in a dark, empty theatre before the movie The Glass House...

Pros: Atmosphere, Leelee Sobieski and others slide off a good performance.
Cons: Plot contrivances, contradictions, and a bit too much hacking off the first cut

Most everything about The Glass House is average. The characters hover somewhere between one and two dimensional, the setting is a pretty typically big rich folks' place (albeit with a personality of its own). The initial death/murder is dealt...

Pros: Skarsgard, Dern,Lane, and the artistic photography
Cons: plot problems, bad editing

This is not as bad a movie as it is reported to be. Unfortunately it missed the target audience by a few years, and most of the rest of us didn’t watch it closely enough to appreciate its good points. As a teenage movie it lacks the important elements of...

Pros: Wonderfully full of suspense
Cons: A few holes in the plot

My daughter received a DVD of The Glass House for her birthday and wanted me to sit down and watch it with her. I could vaguely remember seeing trailers for this movie on videos I had rented in the past, but I couldn't remember exactly what the...

Pros: Good Cast, Some Suspense
Cons: Otherwise Boring, Lacking Plot

I caught this movie on TV the other night and was not too impressed with it. Fortunately it was a week night and I was bored, so it didn't feel like such a waste of time. When this movie came out in theaters, I felt like I already saw it just by...

Pros: Kept my interest
Cons: None

My husband and I wanted to rent some type of thriller last night, and I had heard some actual cool things about this movie, so "The Glass House" was our winner!

First let's start with the four main characters in this film. First there are the...

Pros: Leelee Sobieski. Some cool architecture.
Cons: Creaky plot mechanics. Completely unbelivable.

I am simply desolate that I have been unable to keep my adoring public as up to date on my fabulous US tour raising money for WTC/Pentagon disaster relief as I would like. It's just been agony racing from venue to venue - the publicity junkets, the...

Pros: I really can't think of any
Cons: a bunch

There is no reason to see The Glass House. There was no reason to make it, there is no reason to any of it. There have been a lot of bad films this year, and The Glass House is not the worst. However, it may very well be...

Pros: Sobieski is a cuter (and more talented) Helen Hunt.
Cons: This movie somehow escaped from the Lifetime Channel. Males, beware.

If suburban psycho potboilers are your cup of tea, then you'll find The Glass House to be a satisfying affair. For those freaks (like yours truly) who've actually SEEN all these movies, this one will almost play like a spoof. Either way, it's a bad...

Pros: Stellan Skarsgard's performance
Cons: Hackneyed script, superficial direction, underscoring the creepy melodrama

Actor Skellan Skarsgard singlehandedly makes this sinister thriller more effective than you might expect.

When the parents of 16 year-old Ruby Baker (Leelee Sobieski) and her 11 year-old brother Rhett (Trevor Morgan) are killed in a...

Pros: It starts and it grips you for about the first hour
Cons: after that, it's as generic as a Lou Pearlman boyband

I'm not exactly sure why, but despite the fact that I know critics, especially MOVIE critics, are so full of s*it half the time, I still tend to believe them more times than I don't. The last time I went to a movie based on knowing nothing but...

Pros: Bruce Dern. Some worthly thrills, but not many.
Cons: lame story and lame acting. Not worth the price. Rent it!

Some movies are so bad that they are enjoyable. Some movies have such a ridiculous storyline that they are interesting. Some movies have over-the-top acting that they are entertaining to see. This isn’t one of those movies. The Glass House is...

Pros: Leelee Sobiesky flesh parade. Stellan Skarsgaard
Cons: Everything (even too much Leelee Sobiesky flesh parade).

I must admit that I am not a big fan of the thriller genre. In general I find that it is unoriginal and not worth my time. Of course the occasional movie comes along which proves me wrong. I was hopping this would be one of them.

I didn't...

Pros: A talented cast; some skillful direction.
Cons: You've seen it all before.

Even if the trailer didn't give away darn near every turn of its plot, one would still have had an easy time predicting the course of events in The Glass House. A formulaic film that is more typical than terrible, The Glass House still...