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Our heroine, Lucy Thompson, is one of the dumbest characters ever portrayed in a film. She is a private investigator and repeatedly says "I don't know what to do" in situations that someone with her supposed expertise would clearly know how to handle. Or even just the average adult would make better choices.

She has extremely poor judgement and is also a big hypocrite. For example, she sees a man her sister introduced her to the week before in a blind double date having drinks with another woman and freaks out. She does this while she herself is sitting in the same bar having drinks with another man. I mean, hello?! Maybe blind-date-guy-who-you've-met-only-once is with a client too? Regardless, they aren't even dating yet, so why is she being so psycho & possessive.

Also, the man SHE is having drinks with happens to be a client. Who is married. So she proceeds to have dinner and an affair with that same client while unsuccessfully trying to prove his wife is the one cheating.

The production is slick and the director does a lot with a stilted, nonsensical dialogue and a dumb, farfetched plot. The music is kinda OTT, but I liked it.

Lanie McAuley did her best as the thick, one-dimensional Lucy. I also liked the performance of Carly Fawcett as BFF Cami. I liked the casting of Dalias Blake as August, her no-nonsense employee/sidekick who was likeable, straightforward, and competent. His character grew on me. He should've been written as her business partner not employee because Lucy was so mediocre and incompetent and did not come across credibly as "the boss".

Lucy is dense, highly strung, violent and not very likeable. When she, the supposed heroine, bumped off her innocent love interest mid-film in such a ridiculous & unjustifiable manner, this film became a particularly unpleasant and meaningless watch. I have 20 minutes left in this film and can't wait until it's over.

I'm not gonna lie, I'm always a sucker for a Lifetime movie. It's that sterile, cut-rate suck-you-in factor that I'm looking for. Infidelity Can Be Fatal, well it's a hit-or-miss checklist of all things Uncorked. There's no murderous psycho to deal with, no wow factor twist, and no real conniving manipulation. There is however, that annoying best bud, sheer set locations, and some deep, sultry sexy stuff that with the music inserted, is almost kinda daft.

"Fatal" is directed by Danny J. Boyle. No not the guy who helmed Slumdog Millionaire, that's Danny without the J. Boyle's film is about a female private investigator who is hired to follow her client's wife only to get followed herself while getting romantically involved with said client. Um, did you get all that?

Infidelity Can Be Fatal weaves different plot lines as if Alfred Hitchcock himself was "rear windowing" the potboiler affairs. Every scene feels like a clue, every camera angle a mild POV, every persona a red-herring suspect. "Fatal" is involving for most of the way but there are times when it's also sort of blandly confusing. When the end credits roll up you wonder why "Fatal" didn't jump off the screen like it should. I mean it's like a whodunit that you keep asking to yourself, "who dun what?"

"Fatal" stars Lanie McAuley, Matthew MacCaull, Carly Fawcett, and Sasha Piltsin. Heard of these guys? Well me neither. Their acting is anywhere from overly dramatic to reactive to middling. Their characters range from obvious thriller tags to overt stereotypes. In terms of Lifetime thespianism, yeah that's par for the course.

Bottom line: Infidelity Can Be Fatal isn't as trashy and nutrition-less as something a la David DeCoteau but it's also not as razor-sharp as stuff like 2019's The Husband and/or A Sister's Revenge. In this case "infidelity can be mixed".

This had potential to be a good thriller but it just failed. The plot was totally ridiculous.

So here's. We have Lucy, a private investigator specializing in couples infidelity (significant info), whose ethics and principles are based on not getting close to the client.

Then we have her bff and her husband Charles, seemingly happily married couple. Enter Clive the slick dashing new client who suspects his wife is cheating on him. So the reciprocal flirtations almost immediately begin between the two.

After days of tailing and surveilling Clive's wife she comes to the conclusion that his wife is not doing anything wrong, but he insists on her continuing the surveillance because he's sure his wife is up to no good.

After a few bumpings into each other which seemed like Clive was stalking Lucy, they almost have sex in her office but are interrupted by Lucy's associate August.

So after a few incidents and a break-in in Lucy's home, Clive offers to take Lucy away to get away from all the stress etc. So they go to his cabin in the middle of nowhere and yes they finally christen the bed.

Meanwhile, August discovers shocking new details and send a voicemail to Lucy warning her about Clive. As she tries to get away from Clive she pushes him and he falls against the fireplace and dies.

Here are the stupid plot holes: in real life cops would not let someone go in any sort of suspicious events especially death. She should have been taken down to a police station for a thorough interview.

The coincidence was just plain stupid. Charles happened to be the husband of someone whose best friend was a infidelity PI, and he happened to start an affair with billionaire Clive's wife.

Like I said this had potential but failed miserably.

OK this is a lifetime movie so I am guessing that they make movies for people who don't care about plot holes, poor acting or even just a pointless story altogether? This movie had some good feedback so I thought take the plunge and have some faith that the reviews were not fake? Well judging by what I have watched those reviews were not entierly very honest. The whole plot is ludicrous from start to finish you do wonder if anyone kept a straight face while reading their scripts to this monstrosity of a TV movie. The leading character is a typical dumb blonde stereotype doing exactly the opposite to what they preach. One dimensional cardboard character who loves to punch the crap out of her boxing sparring trainer while in the next scene being scared whitless carrying a baseball bat. So it's a very condradicting cliche character. The whole movie is based on trust issues and that's about it. There is one huge plot hole where the main character kills someone because they were scared even though the person she kills has shown zero violence to anyone. Even worst the police let her go without questioning accepting that he deserved to die because he may or may not have paid someone to trash her house over. Bonkers and more far fetched than a Steven Spilberg movie, it beggars belief. Avoid this B movie because it's not even good it's just a frustrating dumb movie for dumb people!

In the genre of film noir, a standard trope is the hard-boiled male private detective embroiled in a crime of passion. It is therefore entirely appropriate for a Lifetime film to have the dedicated gumshoe played by a woman.

Lucy Thompson is a private eye who prides herself on strong personal boundaries. She always has her guard up, and the only person she genuinely trusts is her best friend from college, Cami.

Unfortunately, Lucy has a lapse in judgment when she becomes romantically involved with Clive, one of her clients. An intricate cat-and-mouse game follows in which Lucy is being set up by an unknown nemesis. In the process, poor Clive dies when Lucy accidentally shoves him hard against the fireplace during an intense interchange.

It was not made plausible that Lucy would not have been charged with manslaughter in the death of Clive. It was also surprising that Lucy would be sitting taking photographs of Adriana being strangled to death without intervening to try to save a woman's life.

The film was well-paced, and there was good suspense. But instead of spending time in an orange jumpsuit, Lucy is on the verge of publishing what could be a bestseller about her experience. The title of the book should be: "A Question of Trust: How I Messed up Professionally, Yet Avoided Time in the Slammer."