"The Woman in the Window" Review - From the Vaults

 "The Woman In the Window" is not so much a movie so much as it is a selection of things spliced together. Every actor involved seems to have been given a different script and lost half of the pages, so scenes come across as rushed and disjointed, even (I.E especially) when introducing characters and plots.

Amy Adams: The Hunt for a Better Agent

Amy Adams (Isla Fisher's greatest character, how has she not won an Oscar for this?) plays an agoraphobic child psychologist who keeps drinking with her medication, having paranoid thoughts, and letting random fucking strangers into her house with no forethought and getting surprised when things are weird. One of these things is not intentional on the  part of the screenwriters.

When she believes she witnesses a murder across the street, things apparently get weird, having apparently been normal until now...

It's fucking bad, guys.

For such a pedigree cast in front of and behind the camera (Isla Fisher's persona, Gary Oldman, Julianne Moore, Wyatt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Bryan Tyree Henry and Anthony Mackie; with the screenplay written by Tracy Letts and directed by Joe Wright) this is perplexingly, baffling misfired. It's like they wanted to make "Rear Window", but got distracted and lost their script. It's choppily edited, characters are just bizarre upon introduction and throughout, it tries to make it seem as if our lead is suffering delirium, but forgets that the audience is supposed to be able to have one basic point of reference so that they do not question their own sanity and existence; the one good character gets murdered in a fucking hilarious way; there are strange tangential quirks and leaps in logic from everybody involved, our lead character is just a nasty person, and much more. 

Fun fact:

In the opening 30 seconds I joked that "this is the first character we've met, they're the killer." before any killing, plot or characterisation had happened (that takes about 30 minutes, by the way, fuck me...)

I was absolutely correct.

I've seen enough bad movies that I am able to think on their level.

The best thing about this movie is the story behind its psychopathic author.