This movie looked good from the preview, but as usual, watching the preview was better than watching the actual movie. So many pointless scenes like arguing and sex. At that point, I didn't care what was going to happen next, I just wanted the movie to be over. And just like deceitful dating (the movie that aired the other week), as the movie progressed, the plot twist became more and more obvious. I swear these lifetime movies are becoming more and more predictable every time. I only gave it 4 because of the husband, Henry's acting. Otherwise my rating would have been 3.
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The Riddle of the Blue Ribbon Killer
lavatch11 July 2023
Warning: Spoilers
A positive aspect of this film was the interesting set of characters, featuring the popular podcast host MacKenzie "Mack" Miller. She has built a large following from her dynamic amateur sleuth hour as she investigates true life crime.
Mack's relationship with her husband Henry is stormy, and she slowly comes to know his checkered past when his prom date, Miss Lilly Brooks, died on prom night! Mack's studio producer is the ebullient June Kim. And the all-too-helpful neighbor Oliver Turner, a sensitive cop, rounds out the cast.
A significant liability of the film was its slow pacing. The show needed faster rhythms within the scenes and editing out of the long pauses. There was also some "over" acting with spontaneous outbursts not thoughtfully motivated from within.
There was some decent scripting in Mack's attempt to revive a cold case of the so-called Blue Ribbon Killer, which had plagued the Clarksville community around the time Henry and Oliver were in high school together. If she can solve the riddle of the Blue Ribbon Killer, Mack can possibly resolve as well the dilemma that led her husband to be accused of murder.
There wasn't much suspense to the film or the achievement of a style appropriate to an Agatha Christie "whodunit," But there was an imaginative denouement which at least ended the film on a strong note.
Mack's relationship with her husband Henry is stormy, and she slowly comes to know his checkered past when his prom date, Miss Lilly Brooks, died on prom night! Mack's studio producer is the ebullient June Kim. And the all-too-helpful neighbor Oliver Turner, a sensitive cop, rounds out the cast.
A significant liability of the film was its slow pacing. The show needed faster rhythms within the scenes and editing out of the long pauses. There was also some "over" acting with spontaneous outbursts not thoughtfully motivated from within.
There was some decent scripting in Mack's attempt to revive a cold case of the so-called Blue Ribbon Killer, which had plagued the Clarksville community around the time Henry and Oliver were in high school together. If she can solve the riddle of the Blue Ribbon Killer, Mack can possibly resolve as well the dilemma that led her husband to be accused of murder.
There wasn't much suspense to the film or the achievement of a style appropriate to an Agatha Christie "whodunit," But there was an imaginative denouement which at least ended the film on a strong note.
Not very enthralling
CranberriAppl5 May 2021
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I agree with the other reviewer. I've got 20 minutes left and I just want it to be over. This movie takes quite a bit of time to get to the point. By the time it does, I don't care anymore. The acting by the lead is not that great. I'm watching her "fearfully" tell another character that someone she knows is a killer and it's not very convincing. This entire situation plays right into her podcast, and by her demeanor, I barely buy that she was afraid for her life. The villain has flimsy motivations here, and it seems like XXXXX was obsessed with the wrong person.
Finally at the end....just as I suspected...of course she made a podcast...a real twist would have been that she set the whole thing up for ratings and shown herself to be a demented nut who'd do anything for fame. That would fit the way she behaves after being within an inch of her life (eye roll). She's basically relishing and capitalizing on it all and seems proud of it. Very strange and tacky when you consider people died and her marriage broke down. There's another Lifetime movie in the last maybe three years or so that did exactly that where everything was staged and honestly...didn't see it coming. Much better movie.
UGH, the ending...this had better not be a cliffhanger. Let's see a baby by the husband she's going through in vitro and emotional stress with MULTIPLE times or a baby by a serial killer? Only on Lifetime! Ugh.
P. S. This might be the only Lifetime movie I've seen lately where the bff does not end up hurt or dead. So maybe a star for that.
Finally at the end....just as I suspected...of course she made a podcast...a real twist would have been that she set the whole thing up for ratings and shown herself to be a demented nut who'd do anything for fame. That would fit the way she behaves after being within an inch of her life (eye roll). She's basically relishing and capitalizing on it all and seems proud of it. Very strange and tacky when you consider people died and her marriage broke down. There's another Lifetime movie in the last maybe three years or so that did exactly that where everything was staged and honestly...didn't see it coming. Much better movie.
UGH, the ending...this had better not be a cliffhanger. Let's see a baby by the husband she's going through in vitro and emotional stress with MULTIPLE times or a baby by a serial killer? Only on Lifetime! Ugh.
P. S. This might be the only Lifetime movie I've seen lately where the bff does not end up hurt or dead. So maybe a star for that.
How I Slept with Your Murderer!
haroot_azarian5 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
She is made to believe her husband is a serial killer and in a monent of weakness has sex with real serial killer who happens to be her husband's old high school friend. She gets pregnant after trying several times then she looks horrified because she is not sure who is the baby's father! Oh and she accuses her husband of cheating, whacks him on the head with a bottle and not a single apology in the end. Instead it's the poor husband who apologises to her. And like another contributor said she kills the serial killer and she's all laughs and giggles next and talking about a national tour and a book. So yeah she loves making money offa people's tragedies and suffering and blood and gore with no regards to the victims' families! The more I think about it the more I despise the Mack character in the movie. Oh and to top it all up she forgets all about her poor husband still tied up to the swivel chair and gives a long hug to her producer/friend and even jokes about needing therapy after all this, and only when the poor guy calls out her name does she suddenly dash towards him! Pfffffft. If I was Henry I would demand a paternity test too!
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