Give it away at the very start and there's no way it was intentional. I watch w/closed captioning because actors mumble, or the movie's music is too loud and the dialogue can't be heard. Somebody on this production wanted to do the audience a favor. When all of the bridesmaids get together, they try to introduce other potential villains, and other scenes do the same, but it all falls flat after the caption snafu.
I do like that they went through the effort to make this a "bridal" movie complete with dress try-ons and wedding events. There's cringe acting, but I think they do nail the vibe of the bride being the only connection between them. The not-a-shower get together scene was nice with the thoughtful gifts. Very un-Lifetime. After an hour, only one incident has occurred, so they're all still clueless. While I do appreciate that this is focused on the bridal party, what's a wedding movie w/o venue visits, cake tastings, flowers? Seems like a person with an axe to grind would sabotage those things. Would have been a more direct attack on the bride imo. Like in Engaged to a Psycho.
The groom is hardly in this, which ok, it's about the bridesmaids, sort of. They make the point to say he's not close to his family, but I think there was a missed opportunity to have one of them be his sister or cousin because there could be a scenario where someone in his family doesn't want them married. She has so many bridesmaids already, what's one more, lol. The groom should have been involved in the climax. I'm sure Lifetime purposely didn't want Jessica to be saved by him to "vindicate" the other "suspect," but they could have shown the villain get rejected by her motivation for all of this (the groom Michael) one last time. Also, why wouldn't XXXXXXXXX tell the others what was happening? Should have been a whole rescue team in the end.
It's not the worst Lifetime movie I've seen these last few months. If you plan to "figure out" the mystery, turn your captions off first. Even for Lifetime, that is such a bizarre editing mistake. When the climax actually happens, it says "person laughing" vs "Villain's name laughing." So did they accidentally swap the scenes? Lol.
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