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Amanda Jennings has exquisite taste in art, as apparent in the successful gallery she runs in downtown Brockton. Unfortunately, she does not have commensurate taste in men. She married and later divorced the sleazy photo-journalist Kley, who has returned home to demand visitation privileges with their young son Cody. Amanda is also attracted to an oily FBI agent, Craig Sayers. "Killer Inspiration" (a.k.a., "Muse") struggles in tying together an improbable set of relationships.

It is easy to lose track of how many times Kley violates the restraining order against him and how many times the FBI agent crosses the line of propriety in flirting with Amanda. He is even reprimanded by his female partner, who should file a complaint about him with Human Resources. The main focus of everyone should be on a serial killer on the loose, who throttles his victims and brands them with his mark of "Infinity." Now, the killer has targeted Amanda and her little boy.

It was understandable that Amanda cut off communications with her bestie Hailey, the FBI agent Sayers, and the kind deputy sheriff Sean Martell. After all, the killer had kidnapped Cody and was threatening to kill him if Amanda went to the authorities.

But it was surprising that she did confide in the luckless loser Kley. Of course, Kley accomplished nothing more than getting himself killed. At a crucial point in the action, Kley places a mysterious phone call to a stranger. What was that all about? This was a loose end in the plotting.

The actress playing Amanda was successful in conveying the unconditional love of a parent for a child. Her performance was especially strong in the closing action sequence where she was "leading on" the killer with romantic innuendo in the attempt to save Cody. Still, the film was not entirely successful weaving together the different relationships and identifying the twisted thinking of the killer. It was never made clear what was his "game" in playing cat-and-mouse with Amanda. As a film, "Muse" seemed branded with too many stock devices of the thriller genre.

The only reason I tuned into this was because I saw Erin C on the tv guide entry. I like her on Hallmark, and even though Lifetime is generally sketch (see Hallmark Cindy Busby vs Lifetime Cindy Busby), I decided to watch. Once the movie started, I saw a few other faces (Antonio et al) I recognized which kept me watching. Can we address the music? It's so loud in the "suspenseful" scenes. In movies such as Psycho or Jaws, it's the intensity of what you're viewing PLUS the music that makes the music as impactful as it is. Not music that is as loud as the dialogue basically telling you something is about to happen. I'm going to finish this movie, but the dialogue is so cringe. The lady detective says "we gotta find this guy before we have another body on our hands." YA THINK? Not to mention this guy is a serial killer who apparently took a break (they already knew his "call sign") so how many bodies have they collected already?

I hate this trope of "don't tell the police your child has been kidnapped." Unless you are Liam Neeson, it's annoying. Who would take in Amanda's nervous, uncharacteristic behavior and just believe the kid ran away? Then when it comes out that the father did not have him, it's just like "ok! This is fine!" Amanda is such an idiot because the longer the kid is gone, the harder it will be to find him. How does she not know that? She's not even independently looking for him.

I find it pretty crappy that they gave her an ex-husband only to kill him and leave the kid even more fatherless (when the dad wants to make up for his mistakes). Nice going Lifetime. It's hard to sympathize with Amanda when she knowingly lies, falsely accuses dad, gets him arrested, and ultimately gets Dad killed. Lifetime makes it difficult to root for their "heroines" more often than you'd think for a "women's" channel. OH! I'm on the part where not speaking up is going to get her best friend killed. I'm starting to hate this movie. Even after the best friend is murdered, she is STILL lying to law enforcement. She does nothing smart here.

I knew who the villain was because of a recap, but you can see through the mask w/o even zooming in. I sometimes like when the villains are openly terrorizing which saves us from being trolled. Here you're just like "Well, DUH!" How do you just forget someone yet spend SOOOOO much time around them and NOTHING clicks? At no point does Amanda feel deja vu or a sense of familiarity. She lets the villain around her son, the villain knows where she works and lives, and the villain knows her best friend. It's bizarre. There are pictures of them within the vicinity of each other, and yet the movie does not make it clear if she rejected him or didn't know he existed. Nothing justifies why he was obsessed enough to kill. Also, how would a very basic background check not reveal a name change? During the villainous monologue, we find out the villain knew the ex-husband back then as well...why did no one recognize him at the gallery? There was also a bit of dialogue during one of Amanda's calls with the villain that I thought would come up again, and it doesn't. Missed opportunity for her to realize sooner who took her son. The investigation is also garbage. Even after her bizarre behavior at the station, not once do they follow her. Even after she lies on the father and they treat him like crap do they bring her in for questioning. At least two of the victims were killed in places where the villain should have left boot prints. At no point were the Keystone Cops ever close to catching a serial killer they allegedly were tracking already.

Of course at the end, in spite of getting two people killed and endangering her child, the protag gets a love interest in the FBI agent. Unfortunately, although I like them both, Erin and Antonio do not have much chemistry with this script. I'd like to see them in a Hallmark romcom together and I'm sure it would be better. Maybe it can be a Wedding March flick so the villain (Duke in the Wedding March series) can be there too lol. I realize this movie is from 2018, but skip it. A better movie than this, which ironically has the dead best friend as the detective, is My Husband's Killer Girlfriend. At least that mother worked w/her ex to find their daughter without any innocents biting it.

I have just watched this , and am still laughing at how ridiculous it was .

The plot was so crazy , Serial killer, kidnapper, stalker all wrapped up in one.

Even a "shrine in the basement " popped up ( Yes really ) !!!!

And the FBI agents ? More like the Keystone Cops , Kate Jackson lookalike and 'cardboard cutout' partner were just hilarious , watch out for a scene near the end ,when 'cardboard cutout' breaks into Amanda's home ,while searching for her ,and stumbles in the back door after breaking the glass , it just cracked me up , too funny .

There are too many funny scenes for me to mention , but if you want to be entertained , watch this movie.

It truly is the worst acting you will see for a while , with an ' over the top' plot that is just ludicrous !

But , great for some laughs .....