Even though this is just one of the many "Wrong" Lifetime flicks, it could've been a halfway decent movie but for all of its drawbacks, namely:
1) The backstory with Amanda was a mess. So Psycho Rob was kicked out of/left her school for hitting her, and then he stalked her and came to her house and "attacked" her as she told Jen and Becky later on? But then why wasn't he found and arrested and jailed for the attack, especially since her father was a successful attorney? And then he overheard her telling them about him and stalked her and killed her? Ridiculous.
2) It was too implausible that Psycho Rob would be lurking and hiding in so many places in time to overhear all the key conversations about him.
3) The best friend - Jen - and her boyfriend just stood there staring after Psycho Rob hit Becky at the party, even after Becky ran off and Rob followed her. Um, shouldn't they have followed them to protect Becky in case Rob got violent with her again??
4) How did the call go to the psycho boyfriend's cell phone when Becky's mother dialed the school's phone number to return their call, when she got to work the morning after Rob had broken into her house? She didn't even look it up first, unless the secretary had written the phone number down that he told her to have the mother call, but then you would think the mother would realize it wasn't the school's phone number.
5) The mother identified herself as 'Eliza' when she thought she was talking to the vice-principal at the school, after the envelope addressed to 'Liza Snyder' was clearly shown just a few minutes prior to that scene when Rob held it up at their house after he broke in, so either it was a typo on the envelope - which looked like it contained her paycheck and so should have the exact correct name - or the actress forgot her character's name.
6) The detective told Psycho Rob that he would be "going away/off the streets for a long time" and told Becky that he would be "chasing her in his walker" when he was finally free again. But in the very next scene and the last scene of the movie, he was free, at the same age (but with a different hairdo), hooking up with a new girl.
Those were the salient points of this particular movie, along with my usual ongoing complaints about Lifetime movies in general:
7) Why does everyone in every LMN flick live in massively huge mansions that most of them couldn't even begin to afford? They look more like hotels or resorts than single-family homes and are too enormous for the one or two people who always live in them. Most LMN audiences can't identify with such overly obvious displays of wealth.
8) The narcissist Vivica Fox and the fact that she's so over-exposed in so many frequently-shown "wrong" movies, playing so many different characters with different occupations. Couldn't she maybe just once stay behind the scenes and let someone else be in front of the cameras?? What a useless, vain thing to be remembered for - saying her same sassy silly trademark line at the end of all these dime-a-dozen movies: "You picked the WRONG ___________!!"
(And this time, the "wrong" character she mentioned was not the villain as it is in all other "wrong" LMN flicks - it was the 'Lifetime Good Girl' main character.)
Speaking of Fox, at least her overdone plastic surgery wasn't as noticeable as the cheerleader's mother - Liza/Eliza. Her plasticized mannequin face wasn't even capable of any human expressions, and her upper lip protruded over her lower lip - so fake-looking and unattractive, which defeats the whole purpose of cosmetic surgery, lol. Some people go too far overboard with it.
And while we're on the subject of appearance, Psycho Rob looked too old to be a high school senior, unless he had to keep repeating his senior year over and over again for a decade. And the hi-def TV of today's advanced technology unfortunately showed both his and Becky's bad complexions.
Other than all that, it might've been a movie worthy of at least a 6 out of 10 score.
Grade D / 3 out of 10
(P.S. A few of the other reviewers here were incorrect about some things, such as the father taking his glasses on and off - that was another of the many LMN cheerleader movies, not this one. And the one who said this had "too much sex" - there was no sex at all in this movie, just some light making out.)
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