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Deadly Mile High Club (2020)
Unlikable Lead
While it has a lot of cliche LifeTime tropes, the concept is at least cool. I wanted to enjoy this movie, but they writers made the lead such an unlikable guy who seems to have never heard of self-accountability, or know what rational thinking is. Hard to like the movie when you constantly want something back to happen to the main character. Overall, movie's okay.
Kidnapped to the Island (2020)
Meh
Wish they could've found someone who sounded better. Overall, the movie wasn't too interesting. Your standard Lifetime movie tbh.
Deadly Influencer (2019)
Did no one check the audio quality?
The audio quality sounds like of a 70s show. It sounds even worst during scenes where Skyler and her sister are in the house. While the quality is somewhat better during the scenes outside Skyler's house, overall it sounds like everyone is talking through a paper towel tube. The premise seems interesting, but they try too hard to push the "social media bad" message, rather than balancing it out. Lastly, the way Monica was killed off was pretty idiotic. All the hospital would have to do is check their security cams, and see a nurse they may or may not recognize. That and it would look extremely suspicious if that same nurse pulled up, went only into one room - where the patient died - then left. How at all was that plan suppose to work?
The Party Planner (2020)
An okay movie
The plot was predictable, but I liked how the story was played out.
One thing that bugged me was that the mom at the beginning seemed to care about her daughter and said "she only turns 16 once." But when it came to choosing a party planner, she didn't want to give her a choice (even after the daughter said the one she wanted to choose had a lot of her interests). Had she allowed her daughter to choose the party planner, the red headed planner would still be alive. Seemed like a pointless death.
Glad she didn't kill the dog btw.
A Daughter's Plan To Kill (2019)
Not great, but watchable
I liked Samatha and how diabolical she was. Some times her acting was unbearable, but all in all I liked her. Plot was pretty standard, not the first time I've seen something like this but it was at least decent. However, It's a little far-fetched to believe any sane family would trust her. And the friends were really clueless as well. There's no mistaking the feeling of someone holding onto your foot while you're under water, so it's strange her friends didn't make a big deal about it.
One of the things that really put me off was the almost r*pe scene. Samatha told the guy that the daughter "like it rough," not being forced. There's a big difference, so that scene was really strange imo.
If it weren't for the extremely underwhelming ending I would've liked this more
Sleeping with My Student (2019)
Not what I expected - and not in a good way.
You'd think with a name like "Sleeping With My Student," the movie would be about, I don't know, a woman accidentally sleeping with a student and trying to avoid the information getting out. I was expecting him to sneak around and do some blackmailing and seem obsessed with her, but the plot of her sleeping with a student seems to take seat to the main plot - and then comes in at the very last minute when it really doesn't matter.
Acting was absolutely horrid that it was really tough to focus on the movie. I thought that maybe it would be like that in the exposition and the rest would be fine and get better, but it was too hard to stomach because it was like that in the entire movie. Movie was extremely boring and had no world building. I knew nothing about the town or environment they were in, which made the acting stand out even more. Awkward silence between characters in the first class scene was incredibly suffocating. Not mention how weird Ian was when he was first introduced in the movie.
Gina showed no signs of having a crush on Ian other than that one scene where she talks about losing her virginity to him, and they never come back to it - showing they only mention it for the convenient of the plot. She wasn't really shown being jealous throughout the movie, talking to Bree about him, etc. She just shows up out of the blue to confess her love to him so that the mom would have some way to know where to find Bree. Movie never tells us why Bree stutters when she gets nervous - does she have some sort of condition? Who knows. Bree is also supposed to be 17-18. I usually hate when movies cast adult-looking people in the role of teenagers, but Bree looked like she was basically 13. Despite being 17-18, she has no common sense and seems to have a terrible judge of character.
Also, despite Ian being a bad guy, having a principle plant contraband in a student's locker is such an unethical thing that I didn't expect from the leading lady's character. But then again, she slept with a young guy without knowing his age. Conveniently, he turned 18 some time ago before the events of the movie.
Lastly, we never find out of the mom knows about her son, or what happened to her husband. Not only that, she looked way to young for 17 years to have passed. They could've did a better job with making her look older, especially since she seemed to be a smoker from what I was getting in the first scene.
All in all, don't watch this movie if you don't want to waste your time. I'm upset that I won't get those 2 hours back. The twist was the only thing that was interesting, which only happens at the very end of the movie.
No Good Deed (2020)
Not the best of LMN/Lifetime
Yet another lifetime/lmn movie that demonizes people with mental illnesses. These people seriously need a new shtick. Every time there's a person in these movies that are the antagonist, they're mostly mentally unstable. It's completely predictable every time.
I find it strange that the Karen was able to trust a complete stranger who found her out of the blue and took a weird liking to her kid vs. her sister-in-law who she's likely known for years, and has helped her raise her child.
Even the cop that showed up in the middle of the movie didn't seem too bright.
Towards the end the movie things got very rushed and sloppy. I'm guessing from the way it ended they were leaving it up for interpretation or some sort of sequel, but it was just so anticlimactic. The ending of movie felt as half-assed as the antagonist's plan at the end. It was very disappointing that all Karen had to do to get the guy to go away was say "leave us alone."
The only characters I really liked were Max and the aunt. The kid's acting wasn't as cringey as most kid actors and he was actually pretty adorable. I liked that the aunt was the only sensible character to make up for how idiotic the mom was. I'm also glad the movie didn't take the standard lifetime/lmn turn and have the antagonist just kill her off because she was too suspicious. Aside from the movie's faults, the story was at least interesting. It roped me in with an interesting premise, which, for me, could've made up for main character's attitude towards the suspicious had the ending not fallen so flat.
If you like movies and aren't too picky, maybe just want something to watch or have something playing in the background, you'd probably be alright with this movie.
Sinister Stalker (2020)
Waste of Time
A movie like this in 2020 seems unreal. I didn't even realize this came out in 2020 until I came on to review this. It seems like a movie that would've been made in the early 2000s with how bad it is. The special effects and cinematography are laughable - especially during the car crash scene in the beginning when all they did was rotate the camera around a few times when I could clearly see the car wasn't moving. The acting makes this film a must watch if you're looking for comedy. The movie is predictable from the start, slow, and the characters are absolutely idiotic. Just because the guy punched some "homeless man," the protagonist decided to let some stranger into her house rather than just direct him to a hospital or something. The black lady was unnecessarily killed, and given the movie has such a small cast I would assume it was because the directors remembered at the last minute that they had a character who was still alive. The drunk guy didn't have to get out of his car and check inside the window, he could've just went off his suspicion and called the cops from inside his car. How the best friend trapped in the closet didn't bang on the door/walls or make noise when she was tied up until things was escalating was a wonder. Even the stalker was an idiot and who made terrible decisions. For example, what was the point of heading to the friend's house? He wanted the girl to himself and could've just ran off and kidnapped her, but for some reason he wasn't to go to the best friend's house and stand around like a fool? Things just don't make sense throughout the film and the characters are incompetent - but I guess having a smart band of characters would've made things too inconvenient. It feels like the director was just fumbling around making the plot up as the movie went on. I've watched a lot of lifetime movies - this one was undoubtedly the worst. Only gave it a 2 star because thought it was interesting that the movie took place in mainly one location.
InstaFame (2020)
Wow
Honestly, I didn't know what to title this review because the movie was so bad. Yeah it's a lifetime movie so I already expected the usual format, but this was pretty terrible. As the previous review said, the characters are idiots who do unrealistic things. Everything they did made no sense.
And like many lifetime movies, the antagonist Additionally, this movie highlights one of the reasons why I hate many Lifetime movies. Characters who have/had a bad life, mental illness, or are/were being bullied are always demonized.
The antagonist (who I'll just refer to as V because I don't remember her name) has supposedly been friends with the two girls for a long time. There was no real reason for V to drop her friend other than for "she was bullied and has a bad life, therefore she's bad." She didn't even go to the cops for molestation against her foster mom's boyfriend, since she has to have the worst life possible to make up for her actions in the movie.
As for Sasha, the actual bully in the story, she saw no consequences. Even when she tripped and made fun of V right in front of the teacher....in FRONT of the open door that leads straight to the teacher's desk, that the teacher was sitting at. It's like he watched the whole thing go down before deciding to step in. Even after Sasha posted the clip of V tripping and made fun of her, Sasha so no consequence for online bullying, yet V and her friend are the ones who got in trouble for doing it. The teacher admitted to knowing something going on between Sasha and V, and rather than just calling in both their parents or something to talk about it he just let it slide.