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Highly Overrated But Still Good

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

"You should see this place I'm going to. It's one in a million," Professor Adam Durrell (Eli Gabay) tells his passenger (Tom Berenger). The prof doesn't know it yet but he is never going to see his favorite getaway. You see, the hitch-hiker he picked up is a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims. Posing as the now deceased Durrell the charming psycho pulls into a little coastal community in search of fresh prey. He targets lonely vulnerable Kate (Rachel Hayward) and her troubled kid brother Mike (Tygh Runyon) for a violent death. However, this time he may have met his match. Although the cast delivers competent performances the picturesque Cowichan Valley locations (doubling for Oregon) are the real stars in an otherwise routine entry in the tired 'erotic thriller' genre.

Art Stoner (Tom Berenger) is a serial killer, who becomes friend of his victims before killing them, and assuming their identity after their deaths. After killing and assuming the identity of a professor of an university, he moves to work as watchtower in a coastal city. There, he becomes a close friend of his colleague Mike O'Conner (Tygh Runyan), a young man in probation. He starts dating Mike's sister, Kate (Rachel Hayward), who is a single woman of thirty and something years and owns of a fishing vessel. In order to avoid spoilers, I will not make any further comments. This movie is a reasonable entertaining for killing time. Full of clichés, it seems to be some sort of standard screenplay available for producers. The modifications in the script of this type of movies are minimum and combined among them. However, this one is well produced, has a good soundtrack and the good actor (although very fat) Tom Berenger. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): `Um Estranho na Torre' (`A Stranger in the Tower')

I had hopes for this movie, one picked out by my girlfriend for an evening of viewing. Unfortunately, it was simply a series of cliches pasted together by predictable plot and dialogue. While I fell asleep briefly during the final 1/3 of the movie (easy to do), my girlfriend assured me I missed nothing, and the 'surprise' ending was no surprise.One the positive side, 'Watchtower' features some beautiful scenery of the Pacific Coast. Had they edited out the stilted dialogue, formulaic characters, tepid sex scenes, and improbable plot devices, this would be a pleasant 10 minute travelogue of British Columbia. 3/10

One of the best of Tom Berenger's latest. It should have had a theatrical release. He plays a hero or villain equally well. This one sent chills down my spine, and even though they let the viewer know who the killer was in the beginning, it still had a surprise ending. Editing was excellent, too. I wish we'd see more of this talented actor!