Badly scripted, badly acted, just so so bad. Cliche after cliche it doesn't even come close to being believable. The baddie is worse than bad he's rotten. Don't waste you time.

The classic literature teacher Claire Peterson (Jennifer Lopez) lives alone with her teenage son Kevin (Ian Nelson) in a house in the suburb. She is separated from her husband Garrett Peterson (John Corbett) since she has found he had an affair with a coworker in Los Angeles. Garrett wants to have a fresh restart with Claire but she is reluctant and prefers to stay alone. When the handsome nephew of her next door neighbor Noah Sandborn (Ryan Guzman) loses his parents in a car accident, he moves to the house and befriends Claire and Kevin. Noah seems to be an adorable young man and soon there is a sexual tension between Claire and he and one rainy night they have one night stand. On the next morning, Claire regrets but Noah becomes obsessed for her and shows his real personality. "The Boy Next Door" is an unoriginal standard thriller with a well- known story. The viewer knows the whole predictable story from the beginning in a common screenplay that probably lays on the shelf of studios para every now and then make a movie. The attraction of "The Boy Next Door" is the hot Jennifer Lopez only; otherwise it would be complete garbage. My vote is four.Title (Brazil): "O Garoto da Casa ao Lado" ("The Boy in the Next Door House")

Okay so this movie was really something.You know that kind of scares you off stalkers and people like that.What Claire did in the end was awful,terrible and macabre maybe.This was something I couldn't even think of doing even to my captor-to be quiet honest!He was a clearly obsessed and this obsession or passion led to his own destruction.I mean he was so blinded by obsession that he couldn't think straight.Well I enjoyed the movie on the whole but the last scene was kind of dreadful for me.And the memory would last.However,Ryan Guzman is devilishly handsome and this character pretty suit him.J-lo is not really my favourite but she did really well though.So on the whole it was prolly based on a different theme which played well I must say!

I'm not usually someone who goes for thriller style films and I may never watch one again after this. Please don't watch this. Choose another decent thriller or watch Fatal Attraction again for a decent version of what this is attempting to be.It started well albeit predictably. And I generally like Jennifer Lopez & Kristen Chenoweth so thought I was in safe hands. But as others say, the lad next door goes from being understandably appealing to a near-divorcée, to a complete and utter maniac in a matter of seconds. He claims he loves her and then does a set of weird things to upset, damage her career, kill her husband and son and so it gets crazier until the final scene which is just plain silly. Her response from the beginning considering he is 19 and therefore over the age of consent is downright ridiculous. Of course, she must be careful being an older woman but all she had to do was pick up the phone and report her worries to the police. I guess that would have been a pretty boring and short film though. Still better than what it became.I'm actually still trying to get the moment where she finally stops him out of my head which is pretty annoying when that part of my memory could be used for something so much better.