As the title suggests, I was a bit disappointed with how everything unfolded in this movie. It wasn't terrible per se, but a few tweaks here and there would've made it better, with that being:
The whole thing was just so predictable. As soon as the friend Scott mentions there being a sauna at the gym, you already know where it was going to go, and I was right as the next scene showed Hannah being trapped inside of the sauna with Scott rescuing her before the masked attacker could successfully kill her.
The brief "preview" of the movie spoiled the twist at the end. As it showed somebody holding a knife at Marianne (Hannah's mother) and the person was wearing a skirt, indicating that they were female. So thanks to that I knew from the beginning that it was Jane. Which really sucks because it would've definitely surprised me had they not spoiled it with that short scene. Obviously whoever made the preview hadn't watched the entire movie from beginning to end.
The editing was sloppy and excessive. The part where Hannah says "don't touch me!" to Eli was laughable, with the screen zooming in on her face with each word. The background music by the composer was extremely underwhelming and the soundtrack was the polar opposite. Did there have to be annoying music playing during scenes where it was not needed?
The casting left SO much to be desired. I have seen most, if not all of the actors in this movie in previous ones, including Alicia Leigh Willis, who has been in like 8 out of 10 of the last few LMN flicks that I've sat through in the past three years. At least Nicolette Langley's character's name isn't Maggie in this movie like it was in the last two movies that she was in. The only actors in this movie I haven't seen in another movie or in a while was Eli and Josh, the neighbor. Also, Eli's character gave off Jeffery Dahmer vibes (which I'm sure wasn't intentional).
Emary Simon was so poorly miscast as Jane. I saw her in two previous LMN flicks last year, Deadly Infidelity and Dangerous Snow Day (Nicolette was also in that one). And she had a sweet, bubbly personality in both films. Therefore, it was hard to take her seriously as the villain. This is becoming normalized in the Lifetime realm. Cast an actor that played a protagonist in previous films and have them play the villain all of a sudden.
The story was good enough. I really liked the Scott character and I'm glad that he survived his attempted murder by Jane. But the film made it look like he died. It wasn't until the hospital scene that I realized that he was still alive, so that really confused me.
This was a pretty disappointing start to the year, but hopefully 2023 will be a better year for Lifetime movies though I wouldn't get my hopes up.
The whole thing was just so predictable. As soon as the friend Scott mentions there being a sauna at the gym, you already know where it was going to go, and I was right as the next scene showed Hannah being trapped inside of the sauna with Scott rescuing her before the masked attacker could successfully kill her.
The brief "preview" of the movie spoiled the twist at the end. As it showed somebody holding a knife at Marianne (Hannah's mother) and the person was wearing a skirt, indicating that they were female. So thanks to that I knew from the beginning that it was Jane. Which really sucks because it would've definitely surprised me had they not spoiled it with that short scene. Obviously whoever made the preview hadn't watched the entire movie from beginning to end.
The editing was sloppy and excessive. The part where Hannah says "don't touch me!" to Eli was laughable, with the screen zooming in on her face with each word. The background music by the composer was extremely underwhelming and the soundtrack was the polar opposite. Did there have to be annoying music playing during scenes where it was not needed?
The casting left SO much to be desired. I have seen most, if not all of the actors in this movie in previous ones, including Alicia Leigh Willis, who has been in like 8 out of 10 of the last few LMN flicks that I've sat through in the past three years. At least Nicolette Langley's character's name isn't Maggie in this movie like it was in the last two movies that she was in. The only actors in this movie I haven't seen in another movie or in a while was Eli and Josh, the neighbor. Also, Eli's character gave off Jeffery Dahmer vibes (which I'm sure wasn't intentional).
Emary Simon was so poorly miscast as Jane. I saw her in two previous LMN flicks last year, Deadly Infidelity and Dangerous Snow Day (Nicolette was also in that one). And she had a sweet, bubbly personality in both films. Therefore, it was hard to take her seriously as the villain. This is becoming normalized in the Lifetime realm. Cast an actor that played a protagonist in previous films and have them play the villain all of a sudden.
The story was good enough. I really liked the Scott character and I'm glad that he survived his attempted murder by Jane. But the film made it look like he died. It wasn't until the hospital scene that I realized that he was still alive, so that really confused me.
This was a pretty disappointing start to the year, but hopefully 2023 will be a better year for Lifetime movies though I wouldn't get my hopes up.
