Evil Intent (2019) User Reviews

Been Done Before

[carolynocean · 4/10 · 19 March 2021]

You know exactly where this film is going when you begin to watch it, but you stick with it anyway !! So many cliches , predictable moments i.e. Parents too stupid to notice when something is wrong, best friend twigs and decides to pay a visit with a warning ( does'nt work ) !! , I could go on ............. But what facinated me, was the size of the house !!! How did they even find each other ? It was so big that there are trees growing on each side of the staircase !

And that poor child Max, he wasnt getting much attention from any of them despite the fact that that he was the reason the nurse was there in the first place !! In one scene Max was left to climb the stairs ALONE , bear in mind that the poor child is on crutches !!! And by the way , Mira the mother did'nt look much older than Max, like 12 years old !!!

But I still stayed with it , I suppose there are worse films out there , I just wish it had shown a little more originality and imagination.

Left with questions...

[frome-27786 · 5/10 · 14 September 2020]

*Spoiler Alert* So confused with the end.. The movie wasn't so bad though. The beginning was NOT even a little bit realistic! They should of atleast studied a little bit of healthcare! When a Dr. resuscitates a patient, they don't say "She/He alive" while smiling! Oh & the whole, Pinching the cannula... Those were GOOFS if you ask me!

Ending? Please?

[Nikita2141 · 5/10 · 8 March 2021]

Not the worst I've seen, villian was evil, parents were clueless, blah blah blah. It was your typical Lifetime movie. But did the writer just run out of ideas to end it? No imagination at all. I see the credits roll and realized that was it. Like I said, not the worst I've seen, but the ending completely lacked........ an ending.

Maybe worst, maybe most realistic

[Mooveebuff_sahm · 1/10 · 21 March 2020]

The movie, common Lifetime movie, was incredibly typical. And I've seen plenty of Lifetime films with loose pieces, unanswered questions, and far-fetched nonsense. But the ending on this one.. was perhaps the most anti-climactic that I've seen yet. I'm stuck between thinking... really? This woman was pure evil, has a record of murder, and yet is apparently really easy to foil. It was really just that easy? And then what? Any kind of ending is absent. Maybe it's the most realistic of any Lifetime movie... ohh whoops! Good guy won! even though that's every Lifetime movie that isn't based on a true story. But it rubbed me the wrong way and felt like there were a few pages of script and substance missing.

Awful!!!

[etheodore-58810 · 1/10 · 11 August 2021]

I watched this on Channel 5s' afternoon movie. And what a waste of my time. The acting is just pure awful. The lead actress cannot act. So unrealistic!

Was there a Medical Consultant present during this production?

[GingeryPsychNP · 1/10 · 12 January 2020]

The nurse tried to kill the elderly lady by holding her nasal cannula tubing clamped shut. Okay. No. That is not how it works.

You gotta be kidding

[guilfisherjr · 1/10 · 24 June 2020]

One of the worst written hokum ever. And that goes with the acting as well. It seems our leading lady seems to be walking around in a dream even when she's sober. A real wimp of a performance. It was very hard to watch this movie. Very hard. Our evil nurse got away with everything she meant to do and it seems all her victims didn't have a clue. And if they did, they turned their back on her. Please. The husband's drunk scene, a couple of beers?, was a joke. His dopey wife slept through it all. Even when she woke up she was still a zombie. I won't mention names of cast in respect of their careers but I hope to not see their work again. And the writer must have knocked this off on a lazy afternoon. I felt bad for the director and gave it one star for his courage to make sense out of this loser.

Same old same old

[deedrala · 2/10 · 8 March 2021]

Why does every LMN movie have to have its lead characters - no matter if it's a single mother or a family with both parents, etc. - living in mega-mansions so huge that they look like hotels/resorts? WHY? This one even had huge white pillars inside the house, between the living room and the foyer. The living room was the size of a small NYC apt. and the coffee table in it between the two sofas was enormous. I've posted this complaint in several of my reviews here. Most Lifetime viewers can't identify with people who live in these huge fancy mansions.

And why does Lifetime keep using actresses who look like pre-teens? Most Lifetime viewers can't identify with women like that either. The lead good-girl character here (Mira) was so tiny and thin with a little girl voice that her husband Todd almost looked more like her father than her husband. And the psycho nurse looked only a few years older. She had no figure to speak of but her voice was deep, so in that respect she seemed more like an adult woman than Mira.

And like 9 out of 10 Lifetime flicks, there was zero blood when Gwen stabbed Webber in the stomach with a huge knife. She was lying under him as he tried to attack her, so his stomach was above hers and yet she didn't have a drop of blood on her clothes when she got up, just as he had none around the knife wound. Totally unrealistic, just like the huge mansions and the pre-teen women and all the implausible tropes that most LMN flicks consist of.

Other reviewers here are right about the abrupt ending with no explanation of what happened to the villain - which is frustratingly true with most LMN flicks - but this one cuts off right after the boy tells his parents to watch him do something.

2 out of 10 / Grade D-

Excellent Villain!!

[kyleallencole9 · 6/10 · 18 January 2020]

This is your typical Lifetime movie, but with an cunning and twisted villain plated perfectly by Lyndon Smith!! She plays a nurse who is comforted by the pain of others up until the point where she helps them die. After getting away with this for quite awhile, she becomes a live in nurse for a young wealthy couple (Cobb, Faris) whose son suffers from a physical illness. She quickly starts to poison the mother and move in on her family and gladly kills anyone in her way of having the perfect family who desperately needs her. She can be considered a real angel of death in this one. Definitely was entertaining!!

A New Standard For Sucking

[dttruman · 1/10 · 10 September 2022]

Writing, producing, and direction have set new all time lows with this movie. No imagination to the plot, with far too many killings for a LMN movie. A very anticlimactic ending only because they probably ran out of money so they ended it the way they did. I don't want to be too harsh judging the actors and that's because they had nothing to work with. The LMN needs to set aside a minimum amount of money for each movie made, so that writing, producing, and directing can maintain an established quality. The only redeeming value of the movie is Lydon Smith looks very much like Scarlett Johansson.

LMN rocks !

[marksandig · 10/10 · 31 March 2020]

Another strong LMN offering. Riveting and thrilling movie. Very creepy nurse. She does a terrific job.

"She Found Us"

[lavatch · 1/10 · 23 November 2020]

After the opening scene of "Psycho Nurse" (a.k.a., "Evil Intent," a.k.a., "Munchausen by Internet"), it is easy to tell that we are in for a ghoulish experience. Gwen, the psycho nurse of the title attempts to asphyxiate the kind old Ida Leonard, setting the stage for a string unspeakable horrors.

Subsequently, Gwen approaches a beautiful family, Todd and Mira Lloyd, to take care of their little boy Max, who has Duchene muscular dystrophy. As Mira observes when asked about the circumstances of the hire, "she found us."

In her twisted mind, Gwen believes that she could be a better mother to little Max than Mira. To that end, Gwen drives a wedge into the marriage of Mira and Todd. The attempts she makes to seduce Todd fail miserably. But Gwen succeeds in using a cocktail of "toxicant receptors" to drug Mira.

Along the way, Gwen takes the life of the kind Dr. Keller, who might have identified her as psychopath she is. She also murders Mira's co-worker Karen, who was the first to recognize Gwen for the phony that she was.

After attempting to make it appear that Mira was consorting with David Webber, whose wife Laurel she had murdered, Gwen stabs the poor widower to death and seeks to frame Mira for the deed.

From start to finish, the film was far too unpleasant. It was easy to root for the "little guy" Max and to hope that good will triumph over evil. But the evil presented in this film went too far to the extreme.

Good start then formula

[phd_travel · 5/10 · 19 January 2020]

Starts off promising with a Hand That Rocks the Cradle thing going on. Nice house and pretty lead actress Lyndon Smith reminds of Lynn Collins when young. It's obvious what she is after as a nurse helping look after a boy with muscular dystrophy. She does the usual get rid of threats and weaken the wife things. Liked the part she pretends to be the wife's support group male friend online. The wife is a bit of a basket case even without her help. But the finale is weak and an anti climax. Sean Faris is a bit wasted as the silly husband.

So confused with what I've just watched

[lisajess-36480 · 4/10 · 11 August 2021]

I had to come to look at reviews as so confused. Typical lifetime movie of killer nurse etc. Seemed to want to take over mum's life but wtf with the ending. Just watched on channel 5 and the husbands like great news our son doesn't have muscular dystrophy and then the mum was like no he definitely does and kept insisting then did evil smirk so is she the bad guy what the hell?

Predictable and generic, but still enjoyable...

[paul_haakonsen · 5/10 · 16 October 2020]

Well, this 2019 movie titled "Evil Intent", although I found it with the cover titled "Psycho Nurse", turned out to be exactly as I expected it to be. That being a predictable thriller that follows the how-to-make-a-thriller blueprint by the numbers.

Sure, "Evil Intent" was watchable and entertaining enough for what it was. This wasn't exactly the brightest moment in the history of thrillers, but "Evil Intent" actually turned out to be enjoyable enough for what it was. Sure, this is hardly a movie that you'll watch more than once, as the contents of the storyline just doesn't have enough in it to support multiple viewings.

The storyline in "Evil Intent" was classic script book material. I mean, you knew exactly how the plot would play out and how the movie would end. And surprise, writer Hannah C. Langley didn't veer from that course one bit.

I will say that the acting in the movie was good, despite of the actors and actresses being somewhat restricted and limited in terms of the script and plot. But they definitely put on good performances, which helped carry the movie and making it stay afloat and prevented it from sinking into a grave marked "less than mediocre".

But that was it, wasn't it? "Evil Intent" was just mediocre. I mean, the movie at the hands of director Michael Feifer just failed to throw the audience off of the track. Everything was just so rigidly scripted and predictable.

My rating of "Evil Intent" is a mediocre five out of ten stars. This was by no means among the worst of thrillers that I have sat through, however nor was it among the best either.