{"id":14259,"date":"2002-05-08T00:41:37","date_gmt":"2002-05-08T04:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=14259"},"modified":"2002-05-08T00:41:37","modified_gmt":"2002-05-08T04:41:37","slug":"domestic-disturbance-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2002\/05\/08\/domestic-disturbance-2001\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic Disturbance (2001)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/domestic-dist.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/domestic-dist.jpg\" alt=\"domestic-dist\" width=\"487\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At a running time of simply an hour and twenty-one minutes &#8220;Domestic Disturbance&#8221; speeds through its narratiuve, and never leaves times for suspense, tension, or even logic. If the director Harold Becker had added a half hour more to pad the story and fill in the gaps, there likely would&#8217;ve been some great stuff. But that&#8217;s only really wishful thinking as &#8220;Domestic Disturbance&#8221; seems to ride on the fact that it&#8217;s hopelessly silly and lacking in thrills. In a movie that casts as Vince Vaugn as its primary psychotic villain, it becomes plainly obvious that the studios just aren&#8217;t even trying.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>John Travolta plays divorced dad Frank who is attempting to help his son Danny adjust to his new stepfather Rick, only to discover that the erratic and unusual Rick is a psycho who is threatening Danny&#8217;s life after witnessing him commit murder. It also doesn&#8217;t help that Danny is a petulant brat, but that tends to clash with psychopaths. Now Frank is determined to save his family&#8217;s life and keep Rick from popping cracks about booze. No I jest, but how can you really take Vaughn seriously as a villain?<\/p>\n<p>For all intents and purposes, I found John Travolta to be very convincing as devoted father Frank who will stop at nothing to save his son from this madman he is living with. It&#8217;s just tough not to chortle when you realize he&#8217;s going up against Vaughn. There is just little room in this movie for us to weed out the characters we like. Besides, the movie&#8217;s entire logic and lack thereof is just ridiculous. And how do you waste Steve Buscemi? A sloppy and woefully absurd thriller, &#8220;Domesic Disturbance&#8221; at least has seeds to be great, but it&#8217;s too bogged down in junky padding, horrific writing, and plot holes at every corner to salvage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a running time of simply an hour and twenty-one minutes &#8220;Domestic Disturbance&#8221; speeds through its narratiuve, and never leaves times for suspense, tension, or even logic. If the director Harold Becker had added a half hour more to pad the story and fill in the gaps, there likely would&#8217;ve been some great stuff. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[240,249,302,558,703,1013,1087],"class_list":["post-14259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-crime","tag-d","tag-drama","tag-john-travolta","tag-mystery","tag-suspense","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}