Someplace under all that face-muscle jerking, lip-trembling, eye-frowning, weapon employing individual of Charlie is an entertainer. Someplace under a squeaking house and flashes of light holding just a single clear mystery is a story. What's more, someplace under this wreckage is three on-screen characters who could have made a decent film given a large portion of an opportunity with the majority of the above mentioned.

Since, for some time there, Ealy and Good make their upbeat couple, searching for a house in the nation to begin a family, practically conceivable. In spite of the fact that you realize that when somebody leaves the San Francisco city lights for an ivy-secured, old house, situated amidst woods and toward the finish of a long and left path, with an unending region of garden to cut, it never goes to any great — at any rate at the films.

Notwithstanding, for Annie and Scott, things turn out badly in a manner that is at any rate enticing to envision. The past proprietor of the house is Charlie, who is infatuated with it and makes no endeavor to shroud his connection to it. Having given over the keys, he even terrains up one day to cut the yard all alone, while he later continues dropping inconsistently unannounced or, something else, stay nearby the grounds, looking in. One can nearly identify with the maturing desolate man who is a single man and whose kids have moved away,

However, notwithstanding when Charlie is in effect minimal in excess of a pleasant neighbor, Quaid makes a decent attempt — excessively hard — to scatter that impression and loan him a hyper air that gets everybody's radio wires around up. With the exception of Annie, "a nation young lady" — apparently making her not so much suspicious but rather more benevolent — who takes quite a while getting up to speed, while the film develops the pressure between the envious Scott and Charlie rather pleasantly.

In any case, it never truly sums to considerably more than the reason The Intruder started with, and which we knew would happen in the long run. And still, at the end of the day, as the film creeps its way towards it, through pretty much every platitude, there is a pointless rape offered tossed in, just as an easygoing intrigue for keeping firearms.