A Dangerous Date (2018 TV Movie) User Reviews

Wait, this isn't a comedy?

[momontherandom · 3/10 · 5 June 2018]

This was a ball of laughs. My 12 year old daughter and I were rolling over the bad acting, horrible plot, ridiculous logic and complete lack of real drama.

I consider myself to be a Lifetime movie aficionado and even this one was hard to finish.

"Call Me Lexi"

[lavatch · 3/10 · 11 December 2019]

Molly Elizabeth Anders married Peter Mark Lewis, and they had a beautiful baby daughter named Julie. But Molly died young, and it has now been years since Peter has thought about the dating scene. Julie takes things into her own hands and enrolls her dad on a dating site. Then, Julie actually writes messages to a woman who had sent Peter a message after reading his profile. A dinner is set up between Peter and Dr. Alexis Sawyer, a surgeon, and this is the "dangerous" date of the film's title.

It was not convincing in the film that Peter would become involved so swiftly with Alexis, based on his long period of mourning and time away from women. He didn't seem at all "rusty" when he arrived home with Alexis! Peter was also a successful divorce attorney, witnessing disastrous relationships on a daily basis. Wouldn't he be a little wary of jumping into a relationship this fast? Julie warns her dad to "slow the roll" and "pump the brakes," but Peter will not listen to her and actually believes that his daughter is "jealous."

The most interesting part of the film was the conversations between Julie and Alexis. Both women seemed to be about the same age, and they nearly appeared to be twins. Yet, any similarities end there. Julie is solidly grounded in life, and she is prepared to go to Maine as a pre-med student. By contrast, Alexis is a pathological liar, who is not a doctor, and her real name is Alexis Boyer.

Alexis had developed an obsession on Peter while she was working as an orderly in the hospital where Molly was placed. It was Alexis who murdered Molly by smothering her even after Molly had befriended her and given her advice in matters of the heart. Alexis had even killed her own mother, then lied that her father had left his shoes in the kitchen (his "stinkin' mud clinkers") and the mother tripped over them and cracked her skull on the counter. Later, Alexis will send her alcoholic father in Bakersfield into the next world as well.

"A Dangerous Date" was a predictable, by-the-numbers film without much suspense or mystery. Uncharacteristic of a Lifetime film, the locations for the film seemed tawdry and inappropriate, such as the storefront law office and the low-rent home of Peter that did not fit the lifestyle of a successful attorney. Above all, Peter's gullibility was stretched beyond the pale on the night of the dangerous date.

If there is any lesson to learn from this sad story, it is to be observant in life. Alexis had made a nasty scene in a restaurant long before Peter had acquired the dating ap, and both Peter and Julie witnessed the scene from a nearby table. But neither father nor daughter remembered her. If they had had sharp memories, they would have had their guard up when Alexis entered their lives with the fateful words, "All my friends call me Lexi!"

Too Predictable

[dainamariebradley · 3/10 · 3 September 2020]

Was hoping for suspense at least. It sounded good... unrealistic plot. I don't want to give away too much but it's okay with the caveat that a working brain is not necessary, this is a way to pass time only!

What can I say

[terriland · 1/10 · 15 April 2018]

This is awful. The acting is horrible like a low budget movie from the sixties. Boring plot. Don't waste your time.

I can deal with a lot of things but this movie is not one of those things - worst ever

[Reel_Reviews · 2/10 · 15 April 2018]

Synopsis: A widower's daughter sets him up on an online dating site called RomanceMatch.

Story: Peter, 42, is a widower who is not really interested in dating. His college daughter, Julie, registers him for the online dating site called RomanceMatch. A little reluctant, Peter activates his account and immediately gets a message from Alexis.

DINNER AND A MATCH Peter and Julie go out to dinner to celebrate her getting into college. At the restaurant's bar, there is a lady, who seems to be on a date, possibly a blind date, with Ian. When Peter and Julie enter the restaurant, the woman at the bar keeps staring at Peter and ignoring her date. At one point, being frustrated by her date's aggressiveness, she slaps him out of his bar stool, literally, and leaves the bar.

It's during this dinner that Julie tells her father she signed him up or the online dating site. He's not happy about it but he promises her he will give it a try.

When they get home, Peter activates his account and immediately gets a response from someone named Alexis. He accepts the connection but walks away from his computer, at which point a message pops that he doesn't see.

The next morning, Julie sees the message and reads it to her father. He's still not interested, even after Julie tells him she's hot. He leaves for work. Julie decides to answer the message acting as her father. The background music played during this scene is very telling. Imagine Alice (from Alice in Wonderland) skipping along, but we the viewer know the rabbit hole is about to open up and swallow here. The music is a bit bouncy with a touch of creepiness and warning of danger in it.

Through the message exchange, Julie, pretending to be her father, sets up a date with Alexis. Not only does she set up the date, she picks the restaurant as well. Talk about being overbearing and pushy. Whose the parent and whose the child here?

Peter is at the restaurant waiting for Alexis when in she walks. She looks better in her profile picture than in person, but don't we all. She's supposedly a surgeon (doesn't seem old enough to be one). If she is in the medical profession, which I doubt, she's more of a resident than a surgeon. But the truth about Lexi does come out. We do learn she's A RN - REGISTER NUTE!

Peter and Lexi, as she likes to be called, end up go back to his place and sleep together. Who would have seen that coming?

The next morning Julie meets Alexis and doesn't care for her. Alexis offers to drive Julie to her boyfriend's house. Julie introduces Alexis to Billy to which Alexis says to call her Lexi for all her friends do.

During an afternoon tryst, Peter tells Lexi he has to get back to work. This doesn't sit well with her and gives him the boo hoo story of having trust issues. Peter leaves Lexi alone in his house while heads back to work. BIG MISTAKE!! Nothing really earth shattering happens in this movie you wouldn't see coming, but I'm going to end the recap here.

ACTING: The acting by Brianna Joy Chomer (Julie) is lackluster. She really brought the movie down. Watching her was becoming unbearable, especially in her states of supposed anger. And don't get me started on Tom DeNucci who plays Billy. He seriously overacts even when saying Hi. The extras in the movie that have lines are just as bad. I guess that's why they are extras.

However, the acting by Jullian Murray (Code Black, Murder in the First) is spot on as a devious crazy person with no soul. Need I say more? But at times, not even Jullian could save this movie.

EDITING ISSUES: There's a scene where Peter is in his office and his assistance brings him some flowers. He tries to avoid her questions and remarks regarding the flowers by saying he has a lunch date but it looks to be evening outside. Yet, in the next scene, we clearly see it's daylight outside. See images below. The one on the left is when he receives the flowers is trying to leave. The image on the right is the next scene where it clearly daylight outside. they must have filmed the flower scene at night and the other scene during the day, edited them together thinking no one would notice.

FINAL THOUGHTS: This movie has a good premise but a horrible execution as far as the actors chosen. Not to mention the flow of the movie. It seemed choppy and the ending came off rushed. As mentioned, the only one whose acting was believe able was Jullian Murray (crazy ass Lexi).

This is one movie I won't recommend to anyone. Usually, if a movie is bad, I will still recommend it because the outcome is worth the suffering and constant eye rolling from us, the viewers. But in this case, I did the suffering and eye-rolling for everyone. I took one for the team. You're welcome

A Dangerous Game came out in 2018 and should go right back in to never be seen again. Ugh!

Low low budget film

[ladybug81798 · 1/10 · 15 April 2018]

I watch a lot of lifetime movies and this is far by the worst. The cast can't act!!!! The homes are dirty and trashy looking. The guy is supposed to be an attorney and lives in a place that is so low class. Dirty windows, nasty building. furniture was cheap old stuff. What a huge let down for a lifetime movie.

HORRIBLE acting, low budget film

[jerianne03 · 1/10 · 4 August 2018]

I really shouldn't even review it, as I tried three times to go back and watch a little more, and each time just could not stomach the silly writing orthe awful acting=this has got to be the WORST Lifetime movie I have ever seen, and I have a high tolerance for garbage!

Are You Kidding Me ???

[carolynocean · 1/10 · 26 March 2021]

Seriously, where do they get these people ? Are good actors really that hard to come by , apparently so !

But really, the whole plot, the script, the so called "acting" and the direction was so funny, Oh , I almost forgot the camera work in parts ..... Hilarious !

The flashbacks on the beach just cracked me up , that whole scene I would love to see again, beacause I laughed so much !!

I think you might get the message that this movie is one of the worst, but good for a few laughs !

Another online dating warning

[phd_travel · 7/10 · 25 January 2019]

A busybody girl sets her widowed lawyer father up in a date with a sexy young surgeon. She turns out to be a wacko who years ago obsessed about them in hospital when the wife was dying. But the girl regrets it when things move too quickly. David Chokachi plays Dad and Brianna Chomer plays the wacko. The daughter and wacko are both dark haired - a little similar looking which can be confusing.

It's fun to watch how things unfold in this tongue in cheek thriller.

Worth a watch.

So bad...the reviews don't even cover it

[CranberriAppl · 2 May 2022]

If your Lifetime movie can't even maintain a 5.0 rating, you've got a lot of work to do. I'm a sucker for nostalgia, so the only reason I finally watched this (it airs a lot) was Cody from Baywatch.

It makes zero sense that Peter and Julie have such a close bond, but he never believes her about Lexi. They talk about everything including how she wants him to date again since she's leaving for college, but then there's never a heart to heart between them where he tells her what's going on with Lexi. Lexi just shoves her way into their lives and the dad is fine with it.

This movie would have been 10x better had they used more flashbacks. There needed to be a flashback to Alexis' childhood to explain why she killed her mother, why she was fixated on the family, and maybe even a flashback for Peter or Julie to realize they'd seen her before. It's also not clear how she knew they'd be at the restaurant for dinner? Presumably once Molly, Julie's mom and Peter's wife passed, she would have never had the opportunity to see them again? How did she find them? How could she had known that Julie would create a dating profile for her dad? So many unnecessary unanswered questions.

The online dating thing served no real purpose other than to modernize a pretty standard movie template and to make Peter seem old and behind the times. He could have easily been a software developer or restauranteur or almost any other profession. The movie never EVER had him even randomly catch her in a lie. There should have been a scene where he tried to surprise her at work or something. He was just too whipped entirely too fast.

ALSO, Peter as a divorce lawyer and widow seems like a recipe for having a jaded or at least a more reserved idea about love. He seemed so hesitant and it seemed like Little Peter (no pun intended) took over. It really came off more like lust on his part. As a divorce lawyer, you'd also think he'd have a PI on call that he could have used once he found out she lied about her work. The movie took about a week (maybe two if I'm generous) and going from no relationships ever since the passing of your wife maybe a decade ago, to one with a stage 5 clinger was a bit much to ask us to believe. To the movie's credit, one scene actually invoked emotion out of me. It really pissed me off when Alexis slapped Julie. First off, they looked the same age so that was distracting, but second, Julie calls her dad crying her eyes out and doesn't tell him what happened? I think up to that point, the movie could have had him end his relationship with Alexis there, and turned her into a stalker that wouldn't leave them alone. That would have been better. I cannot imagine he would have not dumped her had he known what she did to his daughter.

Alexis was a cringe villain and there was no clarity as to why she was a killer. Between killing her mother and being employed at the hospital in time to kill Julie's mother, when was she in a mental institution? How did she get out? She killed her mother for stepping out on her father, but then kills her father for spilling the beans? Huh? She's supposed to have daddy issues???

All in all, I've finally watched it. For such a bad movie, it airs at least once a month on LMN, so maybe people are like me who watch it for the nostalgia. It's terrible though.

It's on Channel 5 on a weekday afternoon. Say no more!

[boatman-39347 · 1/10 · 20 May 2020]

Terrible doesn't cover it. You could make matchsticks out of the wooden actors and the attempts at scripting were laughable.

Good Story with a lot of potential, mediocre execution

[MikeyKup · 9/10 · 11 July 2021]

This is a good story; heartbroken and lonely, a man finds comfort in an attractive, lively woman that brings back a spark he's been missing since his wife passed. Little does he know that there's more than meets the eye. I think it's a good story. The acting was spotty at times, and the editing took me out of the zone of watching at points. I liked the villain's story and would have liked it to be explored more. Solid movie. Nothing amazing, but very entertaining and I liked how real it felt. Not necessarily with every detail, but there are definitely relationships like this unfortunately, and for a man who has felt so lonely, it makes sense why he was blind to the truth.

Ridiculous

[metfan412 · 4/10 · 15 November 2019]

Another cliche movie about the pitfalls of online dating. Our lead actor Peter is still not over the death of his first wife, when his doting daughter sets him up with an online dating account.

He meets Alexis who he immediately falls for. The movie then checks off all the LMN psycho boxes from there. She quickly becomes clingy and it's destined to end badly.

The biggest problem to me is the father. He stops believing what his own daughter is telling him. You're super close with your daughter and all of the sudden she is going to start lying to you about your new girlfriend (yeah right). And don't get me started how this weak wimp can't fight off the psycho trying to stab him at the ending. She probably weighs 100lbs soaking wet, and he's supposed to be this strong male, yet he can fight her off to save his daughter.

Then after everything he has been through, what does he do at the very end??? Yep you guessed it, let's go on another date. So stupid!

One last real thing that was nerve wracking was Alexis' white makeup, it was so over the top and you could see she was actually tanned on other areas of her body, but forced to wear a white mask? WTF, very distracting.

Low budget

[mamanash2003 · 3/10 · 15 December 2018]

I found it extremely humorous that the character of Julie wore the same outfit for the whole movie. I guess they couldn't afford a wardrobe budget for her! Laughable

That was bad

[missmargie618 · 1/10 · 5 November 2018]

Pitiful.... Acting was just laughable! The whole movie stupid! What a waste of time!

Terrible

[amgee-89551 · 1/10 · 23 August 2018]

One of the worst lifetime movie I have seen so far. The plot was dumb and stupid. The acting was poor apart from the daughter.

Hilariously bad!

[lmnclips · 2/10 · 23 October 2020]

This movie was so awful it had laughing so hard, especially the climactic part. It made absolutely no sense, and it felt like I was watching a drama or soap opera rather than watching the usual lifetime thrillers. This movie should've been called "A horrible movie that should be avoided by all"



2/10 stars: don't waste your time

Awful movie and I'll tell you why...

[Affilms-01274 · 1/10 · 16 February 2023]

The acting was poor, but I don't blame the actors, I blame the writer and the director, poor writing, they tried to make the script clever, but they rushed the process, and made the story terribly unnatural with no natural depth, it went from 0 to10 in about 30 mins, the concept was obvious, they copied the "Stepfather" concept, the director was either just getting paid to do a job, or he's not into films or maybe it's he's first film, because a decent director and better editor could of rescued that story, trust me!! I don't know how people get the funding to make those sorts of films, it's crazy 🤦🏽 What a waste of 2,500,000.

What am I watching? And why am I still watching it?

[dewilliams30 · 3/10 · 10 December 2022]

First thing the makeup on the character Alexis even in the morning shots? I can't get passed it. Let's move on to the fact that this dude Peter claims he hasn't dated in years right? Ok Peter I think I believe you because you slept with this woman first night and you have her all up in your home haven't introduced her to your daughter but you're in the kitchen acting as if you've known her for a lifetime? This is when I was done with the movie. Literally. No I'm lying it's when they gave us the hospital flashback. This child was looking at this family or Peter then? That's what they came up with? Back to Peter his character is by far one of the funniest characters in a supposedly serious thriller I've stumbled upon. He was bent out of shape about dating and soon as he gets some he acts like a kid a Disneyland who's been told it's time to go? Or whipped like what Julie called him. He's definitely that if nothing else. He doesn't trust his daughter and getting upset about it like he's a teenage boy vs a grown man. It's not like Alexis hasn't shown him a few red flags. This movie gets crazier each minute watched. I never expect good acting on these movies but this is just awful. Yet I was given a pass on my screenplay was told it has been done before yeah no it hasn't. Sci-fi, Lifetime, and Hallmark movies literally confirms we can create similar movies and get away with it. Let me find some investors lol if movies such as this being made someone will produce my scripts. Are you serious? So I'm at the end, the dad is just stupid I can't with him. So everything done in the dark comes out in the light but IKYFL!!! This little girl was a nurse or volunteer aid killed this man's wife, his daughter's mother to be with him how many years later? And this fight scene if we can call it that is unbearable to look at. Who wrote this and how did they get financing? I think this is now one of the worse Lifetime movies I've seen.

5 minutes

[Carriexoc · 1/10 · 6 March 2019]

I was excited to watch this! And after 5 minutes I could not deal with the horrific acting anymore! OMG!!! WOW! Wtf? I LOVE Lifetime moves! The casting director of this movie should NEVER work again!

Predictable

[jthomas-73229 · 5/10 · 19 December 2018]

Acting was so so. For those that watched, my dvr cut off the last 2 min when Alex was institutionalized. What was the ending?

feels like romantic book

[arakirokuro · 5/10 · 29 August 2021]

Synopsis: A widower's daughter sets him up on an online dating site called RomanceMatch.

Story: Peter, 42, is a widower who is not really interested in dating. His college daughter, Julie, registers him for the online dating site called RomanceMatch. A little reluctant, Peter activates his account and immediately gets a message from Alexis.