Will LMN ever get tired of the same old pattern of: psycho-stalks-unsuspecting-victim-puts-cameras-in-their-house/apartment-ruins-their-life-by-getting-them-fired-kicked-out-of-school-drains-their-bank-account-runs-up-their-credit-cards-and-kills-their-friends-and-people-who-are-onto-them??
Over and over and over they use this same worn out shtick that was fun and innovative the first few times, but now after the 500th one, is boring, monotonous, and predictable. It really makes me regret that I didn't get rich by writing a ton of these scripts with no more effort than just changing the psycho and victim characters' names and places/locations.
This one was a tiny bit different in that the best friend wasn't killed or even so much as kidnapped by the psycho stalker, but other than that, it was Same Old Formula.
Major complaint with this movie - as with several other LMN flicks: PLEASE STOP playing loud soundtrack WHILE CHARACTERS ARE TALKING. I've mentioned that before in previous reviews, as have other LMN movie reviewers here. So much of the dialogue is missed that way, by being drowned out with loud soundtrack.
Another complaint about this particular movie is the almost standstill slowness of some of the scenes even to the point of frozen close-up shots that seemingly last forever. During the interminably long one of the lead actress in the dark, near the beginning, when she froze due to her nyctophobia, I thought the cable channel itself had frozen and was just about to change channels to see if the others were frozen too, to see if I needed to turn cable box off and back on to reboot it.
Second major complaint, comprised of many smaller ones - the contrived, flawed ending:
First, she shouldn't have hung up on 911 after giving the address, and should've kept the phone with her.
Second, she didn't give the apt. number - only the street address to a building with multiple apartments, so how would the cops know which one she was in?
Third, she went to the windows to yell for help first after freeing herself from the ropes, instead of going to the door to try to escape through it.
Fourth, the cop checked the bathroom WITHOUT turning on the light AND without turning her head or taking an extra step to look in the bathtub, which no cop would fail to do when responding to an SOS call in an apt. They would turn on all lights and check all areas of all rooms.
Methinks that either Lifetime has no respect for its viewers by continually insulting our intelligence this way, or they're the ones who increasingly lack intelligence by foisting these unintelligent, blatantly contrived movies on their viewers.
Grade D-
Over and over and over they use this same worn out shtick that was fun and innovative the first few times, but now after the 500th one, is boring, monotonous, and predictable. It really makes me regret that I didn't get rich by writing a ton of these scripts with no more effort than just changing the psycho and victim characters' names and places/locations.
This one was a tiny bit different in that the best friend wasn't killed or even so much as kidnapped by the psycho stalker, but other than that, it was Same Old Formula.
Major complaint with this movie - as with several other LMN flicks: PLEASE STOP playing loud soundtrack WHILE CHARACTERS ARE TALKING. I've mentioned that before in previous reviews, as have other LMN movie reviewers here. So much of the dialogue is missed that way, by being drowned out with loud soundtrack.
Another complaint about this particular movie is the almost standstill slowness of some of the scenes even to the point of frozen close-up shots that seemingly last forever. During the interminably long one of the lead actress in the dark, near the beginning, when she froze due to her nyctophobia, I thought the cable channel itself had frozen and was just about to change channels to see if the others were frozen too, to see if I needed to turn cable box off and back on to reboot it.
Second major complaint, comprised of many smaller ones - the contrived, flawed ending:
First, she shouldn't have hung up on 911 after giving the address, and should've kept the phone with her.
Second, she didn't give the apt. number - only the street address to a building with multiple apartments, so how would the cops know which one she was in?
Third, she went to the windows to yell for help first after freeing herself from the ropes, instead of going to the door to try to escape through it.
Fourth, the cop checked the bathroom WITHOUT turning on the light AND without turning her head or taking an extra step to look in the bathtub, which no cop would fail to do when responding to an SOS call in an apt. They would turn on all lights and check all areas of all rooms.
Methinks that either Lifetime has no respect for its viewers by continually insulting our intelligence this way, or they're the ones who increasingly lack intelligence by foisting these unintelligent, blatantly contrived movies on their viewers.
Grade D-