I´m usually not a fan of the "so bad it´s good" category but I feel like this movie really fits in there. Most of the characters are so stupid and the conversations so silly (nothing new for a lifetime movie at that, but it actually works to this films advantage) that it really turns into a comedy (in a good way). The villainess is very over the top, she´s like a psycho toddler on drugs, it makes no sense that Brent wouldn´t just kill her and enjoy the money with his sexy young wife. Neither does it make sense that he would have gotten her to believe he was for real, but... anyway. He tries his best to complete the mission, but his real girlfriend constantly shows up and tries to ruin it, often in very cartoon-ish ways, even though this was her plan that she supposedly spent months planning.
11 Reviews
The Terminator?
tomfsloan7 September 2018
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How many times does the antagonist have to get clobbered before she stops getting up? Wham with this, wham with that, wham with a shovel...she still snaps out of it good as new. So did the guy. I was waiting for the dead woman's corpse to come crawling out of the dumpster too. I guess her problem was that she was strangled, not clobbered. I did wonder what was going to happen to the bad guy at the end. That part was fairly decent. As a whole, it would be nice if they gave Lifetime movies an extra 5 minutes of production time. Then maybe they could be worthy of another star.
Fairly decent storyline ruined by horrible acting
arod_8531 January 2020
Movie plot was decent as far as Lifetime Movies go. However, the amateur acting destroys the high points of the movie. I apologize ahead of time because I hate being a critical, negative person toward another. However, if I'm giving an honest review, the actress that plays "Lexi" is absolutely terrible and "Cameron" is a very close second. Lexi completely overacts to the point of finding myself literally laughing out loud a few times on her scenes. Cameron is on the opposite end of the spectrum and underacts. She takes a little time to respond like she is having her lines fed to her, and it doesn't come across like normal conversation. Lifetime has been around a very long time so I do not understand why they are still unable to mend the repetitive flaws. How many times do these movies end with the character getting hit over the head 3-4 times and left to come back later with a gun or knife? But not to worry, the other character will show up at the nick of time to save the day as the villain is divulging their plan before killing the intended character off. Find some new storylines already.
What isn't wrong wih this movie?
ueymorgme229 April 2018
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The writer/writers need to learn how to write a good script/storyline. This is not one of them. First of all, Jean Louise O'Sullivan's acting was horrible in this one. Sorry babe but then again, you're only as good as the script. Second of all, the last 10 minutes was stupid. Lexi is hit in the head by Brent and gets knocked out. It's a miracle, she wakes up and has no problem getting to the house before Nicole does even though Nicole left first? Third of all, why does no one remove the weapon from the person once they're down? And lastly, Grace gets murdered, Nicole calls the police and they can't do anything for 24 hours. After that, she is not mentioned again. Did the police find her body? There is a lot more wrong with this movie but it would take too long to point them out. But then again, it's a Lifetime movie.
Dear God ...............
adeans-631197 January 2019
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.............. just WHERE do the people who make these 'films' find so many incredibly dumb but rich people who finance them ??. There's just so much wrong with this 'film' I really don't have the strength to type out all the apallingly bad points but I'll go with the ending as it really is worst of the worst about it all !. Bad-guy knocks out crazy woman with gun but DOESN'T dis-arm her her or even tie her up - surprise, surprise, it takes more than an iron-shovel to really knock-out crazy-woman who then goes on to shoot bad-guy. Then Mummy creeps up behind crazy-woman who has the gun pointed at the dumb, love-struck daughter - does Mummy use her advantage of surprise ?. Of course not, Mummy goes on to scream her dumb, lovestruck daughter's name which, unsurprisingly, lets crazy-woman with the gun KNOW that Mummy's behind her and so she turns and points the gun at Mummy who's armed with an oh-so-obvious RUBBER iron-poker !. But the dumb, lovestruck daughter begs crazy-woman with gun not to shoot Mummy and so naturally, given the previous standards of this 'film', crazy-woman with gun totaly concedes her advantage and turns around to tell the dumb, lovestruck daughter to shut-up - giving Mummy the chance to bring this farce finally and painfully to an end !
Comically bad
phd_travel31 May 2018
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Initially there is a little warning about marrying someone you just met. But the acting of one of the cast is terrible. If you watch it you will see who.
The ending is so dumb - knock out but don't disable again and again. Comically bad.
Lifetime has been getting better but this one is a step backwards.
Don't watch this one.
Dear God II !
linda-plant23 January 2020
Clearly these films have a budget no bigger than the cost of a McDonalds meal, but can we have actors/actresses that have more experience than drama school ? because its only the electronic background music that provides any suspense at all.
Also who on earth was responsible for costumes on this film ? The actress Kari Wuhrer wore outfits more suitable for 'ladies of the night' !!!! than a professional business woman. She'd be laughed out of any marketing presentation in real life.
Also who on earth was responsible for costumes on this film ? The actress Kari Wuhrer wore outfits more suitable for 'ladies of the night' !!!! than a professional business woman. She'd be laughed out of any marketing presentation in real life.
LMN NEEDS BETTER QUALITY MOVIES THAN THIS
dttruman31 January 2020
I want to give more credit to the actors for trying to pull off the plot line to this movie. Most of it is so hard to believe, especially the series of events of the last 8 minutes of the movie. Many have criticized the low budget and I must concur. If LMN wants to be taken serious, they need to pay more for scripts, that aren't written over night.
Predictable and dumb.
marccfantozzi25 March 2021
A deranged couple try to kill a young woman who has just come into her inheritance by having the man marry her and then kill her on their honeymoon.
Although the film held my interest, it was predictable and dumb at times and had some bad performances.
Although the film held my interest, it was predictable and dumb at times and had some bad performances.
Kari Wuhrer's superb performance highlights an ok film.
Arek-kerA8 May 2018
Beautiful businesswoman is shocked when her daughter returns from a vacation in Mexico engaged to a mysterious handsome young man. The mother suspects that the soon-to-be-groom is a fraud who is after money of her daughter...And actually it is the truth. Morover the fiance has a secret psycho girlfriend and together they're planning to kill the poor daughter right after the honeymoon...
FIANCE KILLER is a typical Lifetime movie, with a simple and predictable plot-line (the twist is so obvious it's not really a twist), and very tv-ish production values.The director does a passable job with the budget he has. The camera work is very basic with wash-out colors and almost no movement. The background music is next to zero. The young actors who play the (not so)evil soon-to-be-husband, the naive soon-to-be-bride and the evil crazy girlfriend are OK.
However there's one thing that makes this film better than other Lifetime movies.
It is the performance of Kari Wuhrer. Wuhrer was a class act for her entire career. Some people haven't been noticing her talent blinded by her beauty (she was one of the hottest girls on the screen in the late nineties).
Nowadays she still is a very sexy woman (she wears some very provocative dresses throughout the movie, twp thumbs up) and still has a BIG talent. Wuhrer's tremendous gifts, her enormous range, her vocal and physical craft, her peerless skills at conveying complexity, show in the role of the mother driven by the endless love to her YA daughter.
It's a pity that Wuhrer so rarely appears on the screen these days (only three big roles in the last five years).
Anyway the amount of thought and effort that Wuhrer puts into her performance is something that makes this film special. See it when you have a chance!
FIANCE KILLER is a typical Lifetime movie, with a simple and predictable plot-line (the twist is so obvious it's not really a twist), and very tv-ish production values.The director does a passable job with the budget he has. The camera work is very basic with wash-out colors and almost no movement. The background music is next to zero. The young actors who play the (not so)evil soon-to-be-husband, the naive soon-to-be-bride and the evil crazy girlfriend are OK.
However there's one thing that makes this film better than other Lifetime movies.
It is the performance of Kari Wuhrer. Wuhrer was a class act for her entire career. Some people haven't been noticing her talent blinded by her beauty (she was one of the hottest girls on the screen in the late nineties).
Nowadays she still is a very sexy woman (she wears some very provocative dresses throughout the movie, twp thumbs up) and still has a BIG talent. Wuhrer's tremendous gifts, her enormous range, her vocal and physical craft, her peerless skills at conveying complexity, show in the role of the mother driven by the endless love to her YA daughter.
It's a pity that Wuhrer so rarely appears on the screen these days (only three big roles in the last five years).
Anyway the amount of thought and effort that Wuhrer puts into her performance is something that makes this film special. See it when you have a chance!
A Twisted Love Jaunt
lavatch23 September 2020
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Nicole Winters is the Cosmetic Queen and Business Woman of the Year following the unprecedented success her Veritase Cosmetics brand, which she built from the ground up following the unexpected death of her husband. Along the way, Nicole has neglected her daughter Cameron (Cam). The tension between mother and daughter boils over when Cam decides on a lark to become engaged and to subsequently elope with the dashing Brent Danner (a.k.a., Brent Holvik).
Brent has not informed Cam about his criminal past, and the young woman has no inkling that Brent is, in the words of his semi-paralyzed sister Tara, "a very dangerous man." Despite the mother's warning to her daughter about rushing into the marriage, Cam defies Nicole and marries Brent on the eve the release of her trust fund in the amount of $3 million. Behind the scenes, Brent is conniving with his demented girlfriend Alexa (Lexi) to murder Cam, who has an allergy to nuts, and inherit her fortune.
The filmmakers struggled to work sentimentality into the character of Brent, who gradually comes to realize that he loves Cam more than he does Lexi. Two of the defining moments are when he refuses to feed the poisoned cupcake to Cam, and he leaves the Epipen in the drawer, hoping that she can survive the "nut attack" when she does eventually bite into the cupcake.
There was too much that was unsavory about Brent that did not allow the audience to feel much for him even when he has a change of heart. He lied to Cam, and the deception ran so deep that it was difficult to empathize with either Brent or Lexi, especially after the murder of Nicole's nice CEO, Grace, whose body winds up in a dumpster.
In many ways, the most interesting character in the film was the savvy Nicole, who recognized right away that Brent was a phony. We could also feel Nicole's pain after the loss of her husband and why she would throw herself into her work. This was a character with some depth, including her undying love for a daughter that is apparent throughout the film.
Brent has not informed Cam about his criminal past, and the young woman has no inkling that Brent is, in the words of his semi-paralyzed sister Tara, "a very dangerous man." Despite the mother's warning to her daughter about rushing into the marriage, Cam defies Nicole and marries Brent on the eve the release of her trust fund in the amount of $3 million. Behind the scenes, Brent is conniving with his demented girlfriend Alexa (Lexi) to murder Cam, who has an allergy to nuts, and inherit her fortune.
The filmmakers struggled to work sentimentality into the character of Brent, who gradually comes to realize that he loves Cam more than he does Lexi. Two of the defining moments are when he refuses to feed the poisoned cupcake to Cam, and he leaves the Epipen in the drawer, hoping that she can survive the "nut attack" when she does eventually bite into the cupcake.
There was too much that was unsavory about Brent that did not allow the audience to feel much for him even when he has a change of heart. He lied to Cam, and the deception ran so deep that it was difficult to empathize with either Brent or Lexi, especially after the murder of Nicole's nice CEO, Grace, whose body winds up in a dumpster.
In many ways, the most interesting character in the film was the savvy Nicole, who recognized right away that Brent was a phony. We could also feel Nicole's pain after the loss of her husband and why she would throw herself into her work. This was a character with some depth, including her undying love for a daughter that is apparent throughout the film.
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