History Film / TheWatcher

The film is about Joel Campbell (Creator/JamesSpader), a retired FBIAgent in Chicago who is struggling about failing to capture a SerialKiller, David Allen Griffin (Creator/KeanuReeves). He attends therapy sessions with his female psychologist (and love interest) Dr. Polly Beilman (Creator/MarisaTomei). When he gets back to his apartment, Joel finds that a girl who lived in his apartment was murdered. He fails to find any significance or connection of the murder to himself until he finds out that a picture of the victim was sent three days ago before the murder. To his room.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: What David Allen Griffin does to every girl Joel likes. He first murders Joel's ex-lover because Joel was going to retire to be with her. ''Then'', he tries to kill Joel's female psychologist, because she's coming between them. In fact, in the movie, he even comes out and says that he did it because they got in the way of their relationship.

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''The Watcher'' is a 2000 film starring KeanuReeves and Creator/JamesSpader.

* EvenEvilHasLoveOnes: Subverted. David Allen Griffin feels like he has a crush on Joel, but whatever love he has for him feels more like a creepy obsession than legitimate affection.

%%* AxCrazy: David Allen Griffin

* MrFanservice: What do you expect when it stars KeanuReeves as a [[DepravedHomosexual homosexual]] SerialKiller?
%%* FriendlyEnemy: subverted

%%* RetiredBadass: Joel Campbell.
%%* SerialKiller: David Allen Griffin

%%* WorthyOpponent: Griffin considers Joel this.

The film is about Joel Campbell (Creator/JamesSpader), a retired FBI agent in Chicago who is struggling about failing to capture a SerialKiller, David Allen Griffin (KeanuReeves). He attends therapy sessions with his female psychologist (and love interest) Dr. Polly Beilman (Marisa Tomei). When he gets back to his apartment, Joel finds that a girl who lived in his apartment was murdered. He fails to find any significance or connection of the murder to himself until he finds out that a picture of the victim was sent three days ago before the murder. To his room.

** Not so much ''subverted'' as ''onesided''.

* AxCrazy: David Allen Griffin

* FriendlyEnemy: subverted

* RetiredBadass: Joel Campbell.
* SerialKiller: David Allen Griffin

* WorthyOpponent: Griffin considers Joel this.

This movie didn't do too well with reviews, and most of the [[YaoiFangirl current fans]] like it because of the [[MrFanservice hot guys]] and the [[HoYay blaring homoerotic]] [[FoeYay tension]] between the two male leads.

* AxCrazy - David Allen Griffin
* BoundAndGagged - David Allen Griffin's first victim and, much later in the film, Polly.

* FriendlyEnemy - subverted

* MurderTheHypotenuse - What David Allen Griffin does to every girl Joel likes. He first murders Joel's ex-lover because Joel was going to retire to be with her. ''Then'', he tries to kill Joel's female psychologist, because she's coming between them. In fact, in the movie, he even comes out and says that he did it because they got in the way of their relationship.
* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace - David tends to hug and touch Joel, despite Joel ''hating'' it.
* OldShame - What KeanuReeves thought of this movie as. Apparently, he didn't even ''want'' to star in it, and he claimed that his roommate had signed the contract fraudulently and he couldn't back out.
* RetiredBadass - Joel Campbell.
* SerialKiller - David Allen Griffin
* StalkerWithACrush - David Allen Griffin is a textbook case. C'mon, just look at the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin title]].

The film is about Joel Campbell (Creator/JamesSpader), a retired FBI agent in Chicago who is struggling about failing to capture a SerialKiller, David Allen Griffin (KeanuReeves). He attends therapy sessions with his female psychologist (and love interest) Dr. Polly Beilman. When he gets back to his apartment, Joel finds that a girl who lived in his apartment was murdered. He fails to find any significance or connection of the murder to himself until he finds out that a picture of the victim was sent three days ago before the murder. To his room.

''The Watcher'' is a 2000 film starring KeanuReeves and JamesSpader.

The film is about Joel Campbell (JamesSpader), a retired FBI agent in Chicago who is struggling about failing to capture a SerialKiller, David Allen Griffin (KeanuReeves). He attends therapy sessions with his female psychologist (and love interest) Dr. Polly Beilman. When he gets back to his apartment, Joel finds that a girl who lived in his apartment was murdered. He fails to find any significance or connection of the murder to himself until he finds out that a picture of the victim was sent three days ago before the murder. To his room.

* FoeYay - Pretty much a large portion of the entire movie. David constantly tries to get Joel to realize that they "need each other," and that their cat and mouse games are crucial to both of them.

This movie didn't do too well with reviews, and most of the [[YaoiFangirl current fans]] like it because of the [[EstrogenBrigadeBait hot guys]] and the [[HoYay blaring homoerotic]] [[FoeYay tension]] between the two male leads.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait - What do you expect when it stars KeanuReeves as a [[DepravedHomosexual homosexual]] SerialKiller?

Tropes included:

* CompleteMonster - Ditto.

* HoYay - This movie has this in ''spades''. All one-sided on David's part towards Joel.
* MindGameShip - The pairing of David and Joel. Also canon in the movie.

* {{Narm}} - Oh, ''several''. The slow-motion shot of Reeves dancing headbanger-style to a Rob Zombie song while taunting a victim in an abandoned warehouse for one. And the fact that Joel had to ''take notes and write down'' that David was "watching me," as if he wouldn't be able to remember that if he didn't get it down on paper. One reviewer mentioned the scene where Joel's ex-lover was tied to the chair in the burning house, calling his name repeatedly in slow motion, and likened it to a spoof where Cartman from SouthPark acted the same. Only... they were serious here.

* YaoiFangirl - In all seriousness, pretty much the only people that openly show that they like this movie appear to be these. Most (if not ''all'') of the fan videos for this movie are dedications to David x Joel.

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