Murder.com (2008) User Reviews

Playing with Fire

[claudio_carvalho · 4/10 · 25 February 2009]

In Miami, the successful lawyer Stacy (Alexandra Paul) and her colleague and friend Lauren (Robyn Lively) are enjoying a party promoted by the company where they work when Stacy receives a call from her hometown Venice telling that her sister Kate (Ellyn Daniels) was murdered. Stacy heads to Venice and meets her former high school mate Bobby (David Chokachi) in charge of the investigation of the case but without any lead. Stacy meets Kate's employer Roger (David Moretti) trying to get some information about her sister since they were distant and without contact for a long time. While in Kate's house, she finds an external HD hidden in her Teddy Bear and she discovers that Kate was a user of a site that promoted encounters for kinky sex; together she finds the address book of her sister with a couple of names. Stacy joins the site and schedules to meet with the guys listed in the address book sure that one of them might be the killer of her sister.

I watched "Murder.com" because I like the elegant actress Alexandra Paul, but unfortunately the plot of this movie is implausible, predictable and has a corny conclusion. Why a successful lawyer would risk her position exposing in a perverted site to investigate the death of her practically unknown sister? The police was investigating and she could have given the HD to Bobby. The conclusion is also awful since the independent profile of Stacy, who left Venice due to the lack of opportunities in a small town, does not fit with a housewife. Last but not the least; David Moretti is miscast since he is shorter than Alexandra Paul and in the climax of the story, she is visibly in a hole to look shorter than Roger. My vote is four.

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Trying to Make Lead Actress Seem Younger

[jerramarsh · 3/10 · 2 March 2021]

When Roger said he was 3 years behind Stacy in high school, I literally LOLd. Why do these movie types try to make much older women seem much younger than their age. They do this or they're a parent to a small child when they clearly look like the grandma instead. Don't get me wrong...the women look great, but not in their 20s/30s.

Nothing Special

[MrOllie · 4/10 · 5 September 2014]

I watched this film a few nights ago and found it OK, but nothing special. Alexandra Paul plays Stacy a lawyer, who gets a phone call telling her that her sister has been murdered. She then returns to the area where she had been raised and where her sister was killed and keeps meeting various people who she knew in her past. Stacy later finds out that her sister had been advertising herself on Adult Dating sites, therefore, with the help of her friend Lauren, she decides to do the same thing to see if she can find out who the killer is. A dangerous game to play. If you have a couple of hours to spare then give it a look, but do not expect too much.

The shills are out... hyped voting.

[bish11741 · 26 January 2009]

With 22 votes, 19 of them giving a wonderful 10/10 and the other three trying to redress the balance with 1/10, there is some vote-rigging going on here. This is NOT a 10/10 movie... (not even by the wildest stretch of the imagination) maybe the system needs to be fixed, because posting an overall rating based on such obvious manipulation of a relatively low sampling will make people waste their time (and money)... and only serve to devalue IMDb's reputation.

The movie itself is a pot-boiler. It's OK if you've got time on your hands. It's not going to win any awards or go any way to enhance the reputations of the cast and crew... but it's OK if you've got nothing better planned (like cleaning the grout in the shower). To put the voting in perspective, Netflix voters gave it a 3.3/5 for about the same number of voters... the only critic review listed gave it 1/5 ...

Allowing the system to be gamed devalues the whole rating system. Automatically flagging patterns like this is such an easy thing to do, and is absolutely not a difficult code implementation... any code monkey worth his salt will knock it out in ten minutes.

Clean house please. Bish

Diabolical

[MattyGibbs · 3/10 · 4 August 2014]

I thought this sounded an interesting idea but any hopes I had for this movie quickly evaporated within the first horrendously amateur opening scene. Unfortunately it didn't improve, having a horrible 1980's vibe to it throughout.

There is some rank bad acting in this epitomised by the lead Alexandra Paul who is simply dreadful and whose strangely muscular arms shown throughout the film are off putting. The rest of the cast don't fare any better with wooden stilted performance after performance. The dialogue at times is just downright laughable. The subject matter of sex sites is seedy but I suppose it highlights some of the dangers the sad losers who use them face.

Murder.Com just doesn't ring true on any level and if the acting and script aren't bad enough you also have to put up with a truly dreadful soundtrack. I was hoping at least for a decent ending but sadly you don't even get this, just an ending as lame as the rest of the film.

Murder.com is low budget but really there is no excuse for producing a movies as bad as this. I don't normally like giving films 1/10, and solely on the basis I at least managed to sit through it all, I'll give it a generous 2/10.

Avoid with all your might.

disappointing

[xgeorgiaalicex · 1/10 · 16 February 2009]

When i first heard about the film, i expected it to be quite interesting, and with a title like "murder.com" i also expected it to have a lot more tense moments and it to be a lot more interesting than it was. It wasn't the worst film i've ever seen, that award goes to The Village, but i think this film comes in a close second. Personally i thought to describe the film as a "thriller" was entirely misleading, as i found the film quite boring. There is no action and she spends most of the film investigating her sisters murder, and nothing really of interest happens right until the very end, and even then, the action lasts all of about 3 minutes. I found the film quite confusing as well. Some things were not explained and it left you guessing at the end, which was quite irritating. Couldn't really compare it to any film i've seen before. Reminded me slightly of Erin Brockovitch, taking an investigation into her own hands, but that is all, the storyline is quite different. I wouldn't personally recommend this film, as i didn't enjoy it at all, and i certainly would not class this film as a "thriller".

Not that clever whodunnit

[nightroses · 2/10 · 7 July 2021]

The opening of the film was very classical movie scene of a woman in white, or damsel in distress, running through the trees from her pursuer who kills her before the beginning credits. Her sister is a high powered lawyer in the city and is informed about her sister's murder. So she is given leave from work, returns to her home town and tries to come to terms with the loss. Not only is her sister's death a mystery but the only police detective on the case is quite rubbish.

There is a lot wrong about this. First of all, a grieving sister who claims she barely knew her sister, who was the only family left, and it made no sense that this character cut ties with her. If she didn't know her, why the memories and grief? It also felt false. The woman was eager to sell the house from her upbringing although it looked extremely lovely to me, near a beach also. And this intelligent woman does her own stupid investigation by appearing in her dead sister's lingerie to join a sex site, and get DNA from all those who appeared on the list. Stuffing her old PC port in a toy was something she did as a child, according to the lawyer sister who didn't know her! That made no sense. Did she know her or not? It seemed she did know her.

Anyway the rest of the film was like watching paint dry.

if you need a shoulder to lean on this character can lend you 2 long ones.

[ThunderKing6 · 3/10 · 17 November 2023]

Hello!

November 17th 2023rd

Genre: Mystery

Duration: Around an hour

What was this movie about?:

An umm... sister tries to solve the case about her murder sister so SHE goes undercover.

A story and the production overview:

This movie was great background noise.

It was not all that interesting when it could have.

Each client was a creep or violent.

The execution of the movie was soft. It could have been better and add more suspense but failed to do so.

When the movie was all over, I didn't care.

Highlight:

None

Moral:

Protect yourself.

Rating:

Hash

Final words:

Nothing else to say about this background noise.

Ouch

[connolley325 · 3/10 · 3 August 2022]

Is it just me or was Alexandra Paul horrible in this? Her "angry" scenes with the cop were cringe-worthy, and her "acting" was all over the place. Robyn Lively would have been much better in this role.

Anonymous and Raw

[lavatch · 6/10 · 19 August 2023]

In this sultry neo-noir thriller, one of our favorite actresses, Alexandra "Lifetime" Paul, stars as Stacy, a high-profile lawyer who returns to her home town to investigate the death of her sister.

The return to the little town of Venice reunites Stacy with many of her high school chums, including a teenage boyfriend named Ben, who has put on weight and has struggled with alcohol problems. She also reconnects with Bobby Miller, who is the town sheriff.

But Stacy is always one step ahead of Bobby in the search for her sister's killer. Stacy uncovers computer evidence of the sister's escapades on a dating site. She quickly learns that the sister had experiences that were "anonymous and raw." She then links up with quite a rogue's gallery of men, any one of which could place Stacy's life in danger.

There was good dramatic tension that developed. There were also strong performances and interesting locations in South Florida. While the film's pacing was slow, this was nonetheless a good yarn with a surprise ending.