The lodger 2009… Sometimes neighbours are too bad, too noisy or even too dangerous to touch them. But Mr. Weeks is a no coward man and when the noise from his lodger in number 16 becomes overwhelming and it prevents the owner from sleeping, he makes the biggest mistake in his life – he decides to find out what is wrong there …

As far as you understand the plot is something really engaging and catching (although I can’t agree more – Hitchcock’s version was much better). The  movie can be named a low-budget and cheap copycat of the abovementioned one but I love the story that was told and the way the director showed some special circumstances of the new century.

Everyone is a suspect and Ondaatje knows what he is doing because the movie is really fast speed, and adventurous. It seems to me that there are two completely different storylines in the movie and till the end of it we don’t know what to think whether a tenant is a serial killer involved in multiple killings in the West Hollywood area of Los Angeles or not and it is just a ridiculous coincidence. The movie is really dark and most of settings were shot in the downtown Los Angeles area.

The film is not something spectacular and unique, it won’t touch you to the quick or provoke any emotions (apart from fear and interest) in you but it is a great time-passer and it is definitely worth seeing if you’re looking for an entertaining mystery-thriller, or if you can name yourself a great fan of Jack the Ripper. I highly recommend you to enjoy it in theatres but the DVD version is not bad as well.