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"Their Killer Affair" (a.k.a., "Deadly Exposé") features an interesting lead character in Detective Maxine "Max" Payton, who is described early in the film as "the pig-faced chess king" perhaps because she knows how to skillfully maneuver the pieces on a chessboard.

Working in homicide, Max is on the trail of a serial killer who leaves charms on the deceased victims. One is an image of swirling circles. Another is a pre-Celtic spiral. Yet another is related to the Hindu "perfect" sound of "ohm." Max is currently living with Simon Jacobson, the former star lacrosse player in college. Simon is Max's "rebound" relationship after her failed marriage to the cheater Ryan Curio.

After Ryan becomes one of the serial killer's victims, it becomes clear that the killer is close to Max. He has cleverly targeted men and women associated with betrayal of the their spouses, finding the victims on Adeline Lilly's website of unfaithful partners.

While there were some interesting character interactions, those close to Max were all unsavory people. Max's bestie Jen has been hitting on her live-in boyfriend Simon. Jen and her unfaithful husband Greg, who is ironically a hot-shot divorce attorney, get into a fist fight in her dress shop. Even Curtis, Max's partner on the police force, seems oily.

The major weakness of the film was in the unraveling of the narrative to expose the Charm Killer. The plot seemed strained when all of the major candidates just happen to show up simultaneously at a trailer park. Even the motivation of the killer in targeting people close to Max seemed underdeveloped. Why the killer was so obsessed with Max was a conundrum never fully explained in this deadly exposé.

**SPOILERS** The acting was decent. I gave this a 4 because it was interesting & exciting but most of my "excitement" was really just anger at all the mistakes the lead character kept making. The fact that even after the FBI took over the case, she was going rogue all over the place possibly causing more people to be murdered. If she had turned over the evidence she had on her phone or even reported it to her precinct & the feds as the law requires, they would have had more info on their end to possible solve these crimes much earlier. In real life someone like this would be fired or prosecuted for that behavior, unless they had connections & it was a cover up. She withheld evidence numerous times. She thought it was a good idea to bring someone her live in boyfriend hated, because she was coming on to him, to live in the same house with them, lmao. Does a boyfriend that loyal even exist?

They also never showed her having any real suspicion towards said live in boyfriend when he came up with injuries 2x during which attacks had occurred. Obviously most victims fight back & will harm the attacker during any struggle.

I guessed correctly who the killer really was by all the questions he was asking her about the case when he was at her home.

The ending was insane for the point that the guilty party was shot once by "someone," who is NEVER revealed, right before he was about to shoot her so she was able to pick up the rifle he dropped and finish him off. I thought they would have shown her partner had followed her after being wounded and made the hit, but they didn't. I don't know if this was just bad editing but it kind of ruined the movie for me. **SPOILERS** **Having legit technical advisors leads to the credibility of any film.

It's your standard LMN movie about a serial killer who taunts a female detective with the usual suspicious characters and a couple of weird suspects to keep you guessing but the ending was not your typical one, where the two main characters tussle over a gun or knife and that's it. Here in the last three minutes, 4 people are shot with a shotgun including the psycho killer with his own shotgun. What gets me is as you are watching the ending Max is about to be blown away by the killer but some how the killer is shot mysteriously and Max picks up the shotgun and kills him.