Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Very Cool!!!

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

This film stars John Travolta as the noncustodial father of a teenage son who has a history of lying. Terri Polo plays the ex-wife and Vince Vaughn is the new man who enters her life.The story is average in creating suspense, but mines some real emotions that people often have: the lack of control that a non-custodial parent feels regarding the well-being of a child; the helpless feeling of a child in the household of a menacing adult; the confusion of a parent who is torn between irreconcilable interests.Its mediocre manipulation of these emotions and the fears that come from them is the primary reason for the film's substandard quality. The actors are fine, but the vehicle undermines their performances, perhaps because, in trying to convey the various perspectives of the characters, it fails to commit to any one of them. This is mostly a failure of style and technique. The result is a film that engages the viewer, but fails to deliver the expected suspense. It shines briefly in moments, then is undermined by quick cuts or hurried scenes.

An interesting idea that starts well, becomes predictable before the halfway point, but still provides a tense moment or two.Frank Morrison (John Travolta) is divorced from Susan Morrison, and they are having trouble with their son Danny (Matt O'Leary), who still lives with his mother. Danny hasn't accepted the divorce. When Susan meets and marries Rick Barnes (Vince Vaughan), Danny is the first to discover that his stepfather has a dark past, and is capable of just about anything.The film has a few twists on the bad stepfather theme, but it's the cast that saves the movie.John Travolta has that quality that lifts every movie he is in, even bad ones. In "Domestic Disturbance", I think he gives the less showy role of Danny's dad a great deal of integrity. He was nominated for a Razzie for this film and also for "Swordfish", but I feel both were undeserved – his OTT performance in "Swordfish" was just what that movie needed.If he sometimes gives his roles a little ham, it's worth remembering that Orson Welles hammed up every performance he ever gave, and he's considered one of the greatest actors of all time. I think our tolerance for ham is in direct proportion to how much we like the actor.Vince Vaughan gets the juicy scenes in "Domestic Disturbance". Until I saw this movie, I thought comedies like "Wedding Crashers" and "The Internship were his forte where he pretty much plays Vince Vaughan; usually enough because he has perfect timing and can steal a scene just by lifting an eyebrow. However, he was particularly good in the serious "Prime Gig" – still another variation on that personal style. I'm not so sure he's as effective when he tries to stretch his range in a movie like "Lay the Favourite" or the second season of "True Detective"– acting with a capital A. With that said though, the guy can play menacing. He's a huge man and he uses that sense of menace in the best scenes in "Domestic Disturbance".Matt O'Leary plays Danny Morrison. He reminds me of a young Macauley Culkin, and although W.C. Fields once said "Never work with animals or children", O'Leary doesn't steal the show. Travolta and Vaughan have the sort of larger-than-life personalities that are proof against animals or children and probably even W.C. Fields if he was still around.Although "Domestic Disturbance" plays it a little too much by the numbers, Travolta and Vaughan make the film worth watching just to see them strut their stuff.

Frank Morrison (John Travolta) is a divorced father of a boy (Matt O'Leary) who is having trouble with the split. His ex-wife Susan (Teri Polo) is getting remarried to Rick Barnes (Vince Vaughn). At the wedding, Ray (Steve Buscemi) from Rick's past raises some suspicions. Rick may not be the nice guy that everybody thinks that he is.It's a thriller filled with all the dangers without any compelling characters. It actually starts with the kid character who is unlikeably angry. He's the key to it all. We need to like him and root for him. Then there is the unimpressive story. It piles everything on without any reservation. It overwhelms. The police work is laughable. The film certainly holds nothing back. There is no subtlety here. This is a too by-the-book thriller that tells you everything that's going to happen in the first 15 minutes.

For me, this was a trite movie with boring performances from Vaughn, Polo and the boy actor, and predictable dialogue and plot. Though it was professionally competent (no shaking sets or major continuity errors), I would like to know where US$53 million went. Why on earth do you need US$53 million for a "suburban domestic" drama with a small cast and no special effects? Such cookie-cutter tales and "phoned in" acting were typical of the old black-and-white B-movies of the '40s and '50s made for maybe US$2 million (allowing for inflation).Hollywood needs to get a grip. Many a far superior film is made outside the US (and a even a few inside the US) for a tenth of that budget.For half hour this was quite watchable. Then Steve Buscemi left us and the movie went into a coma. I award an extra point for his short contribution, otherwise a 4.