Well it certainly isn't a masterpiece, that's for sure (and doesn't seem to pretend to look like one anyway), but it has its moments nonetheless.
Story-wise, you watched the love-triangle-drama-with-a-sicko-in-the-lot stuff countless times already if you're familiar with TV movies, but what is done right is the pacing, as well as the dramatic tension build-up (even if predictable from who knows how far away).
But what caught my attention was the main character actually. Whatever happened, he always kept a cool head and carefully proceeded to solve the mess he fell into. Normally you're used to main characters going nuts and messing everything up at some point and being saved by some deus-ex-machina BS too often incarnated by the police. But this time it's different: (spoiler incoming) everything went just according to keikaku (TL note: keikaku is Japanese for "plan").
Main character planned his retaliation over the sicko with his capable support character fellas and that's it, they only called the cops once the sicko was carefully and cleanly neutralised. Even the neutralising itself was good, without any smudge: main chara was in a tight spot and support character#2 (support character#1 was out at the time) intelligently sneaked behind and bashed the sicko's hand with some cane to make her drop her gun and that's it, not a single shot fired, clean. Like I said, normally you get a bloodbath in this kind of situation because the characters are dumb as hell not thinking about the consequences. It really is heartwarming to finally have clever characters, I'm telling you.
Well anyway, there are better ways to kill some time like playing actual good video games, and watching crappy TV movies shouldn't be your main hobby for your own sanity, but oh well, suit yourselves.
...why am I reviewing this, even
Story-wise, you watched the love-triangle-drama-with-a-sicko-in-the-lot stuff countless times already if you're familiar with TV movies, but what is done right is the pacing, as well as the dramatic tension build-up (even if predictable from who knows how far away).
But what caught my attention was the main character actually. Whatever happened, he always kept a cool head and carefully proceeded to solve the mess he fell into. Normally you're used to main characters going nuts and messing everything up at some point and being saved by some deus-ex-machina BS too often incarnated by the police. But this time it's different: (spoiler incoming) everything went just according to keikaku (TL note: keikaku is Japanese for "plan").
Main character planned his retaliation over the sicko with his capable support character fellas and that's it, they only called the cops once the sicko was carefully and cleanly neutralised. Even the neutralising itself was good, without any smudge: main chara was in a tight spot and support character#2 (support character#1 was out at the time) intelligently sneaked behind and bashed the sicko's hand with some cane to make her drop her gun and that's it, not a single shot fired, clean. Like I said, normally you get a bloodbath in this kind of situation because the characters are dumb as hell not thinking about the consequences. It really is heartwarming to finally have clever characters, I'm telling you.
Well anyway, there are better ways to kill some time like playing actual good video games, and watching crappy TV movies shouldn't be your main hobby for your own sanity, but oh well, suit yourselves.
...why am I reviewing this, even
