Homecoming: Critic Reviews

Homecoming is coldly efficient for what it is. But what it is is trash.

If nothing else, Homecoming should effectively squelch any movie-star ambition on the part of Mischa Barton, though the camera is more than usually attentive to her cleavage.

As ineffectual police work and broken feet stack up, the silliness gets out of hand.

Competent but unimaginative.

Everything, including the ending, plays out exactly as you'd expect.

An unmitigated B-movie that isn't thrilling enough or cheesy enough to make it worth the trip.

Neither trashy nor self-consciously funny enough to make its genre-trapped ludicrousness sing.

This ripoff of "Misery" will make you miserable. Paul Chambers, CNN.

...there is so little new or innovative about it that if you're a normal moviegoer, you've seen it all before.

Rent Obsessed instead. That one you can at least laugh at.

Too lazy, preposterous and inane to even be considered as a guilty pleasure.

The movie takes a premise that might have served as the basis of a weepy romantic drama and turns it into something very different, but no less insulting.

Teen thriller/romance is gory but ho-hum. Skip it.

Rooted by a nice sense of place but, much like its real life namesake, Homecoming isn't age-appropriate for everyone -- maybe just those in high school, or barely removed. Others will likely find the familiarity more humdrum than effectively nostal

When is a movie remake not a movie remake? When the filmmakers involved know what they've made is so wretched they don't dare admit it. The most oblivious MTV viewer won't miss the blatant plagiarism.

You can tell where this is all going, and the familiarity wouldn't be so bad if this cast could have some fun with the cliches. Alas, these CW stars pout and frown and yell, while lumbering and plodding through the Stephen King/Rob Reiner playbook.

A silly, low-rent mash-up of Misery and Fatal Attraction, featuring neither the clever psychology of the former nor the layers of emasculation and consequence of the latter.

Homecoming is Exhibit A in how casting can make--or in this case, break--a genre picture.

A bizarre mash-up of Fatal Attraction and Stephen King's Misery, with so many risible premises that it's hard to know where to begin.

Nothing in the film is truly, laughably bad, but then -- unlike this year's Obsessed -- nothing is campily entertaining, either.

Director Morgan J. Freeman doesn't excite much of a pulse from the film's gentle, lunkheaded object of desire.