Review of One Hour Photo (2002) by Jason J — 30 Jan 2011

Robin Williams gives an outstanding performance as the photo technician who has a fixation on 1 family by stalking them and putting up photos on the wall at his home. When he discovers the husband having an affair with somebody, he gets involved himself.

It could be Williams' best performance yet. He seems to portray creepy characters so well. This movie was very believable and did a terrific job of portraying Sy Parrish as a sympathetic but very disturbed figure.

It is really hard to hate his character who seemingly just wanted to have a family of his own. While it may be argued that nothing was really resolved in the ending, I thought it was very appropriate.

I really liked the fact that neither Sy (nor anyone else for that matter) was killed in the end. A lot of other movies will usually kill the villain because it is generally believed that he deserved to die.

But that wasn't the case here as Sy was a very complex character. Lastly I felt that this movie was not overly long and really flowed well. Highly recommended.