. . .every scene had a different distraction singer lamenting something. It is very annoying. I watch to view and not listen to the playlist. I am ready to shut the TV off.
10 Reviews
If I wanted to listen to a playlist . . .
dougdispiri20 December 2020
An average Lifetime
awwplutto21 July 2020
Ehhhhh
tomfsloan22 December 2020
Pointless motive on why the bad person was the bad person. No one believed the girl. The police, her friends, and principal all were jerks. I agree with the other user reviewer about the wooden cop actor, but at least he ended up not being an idiot. Typical stupid ending. Clobbered in the head with a wine bottle and having basically no ill effects. A real wine bottle that would shatter against a skull would be 100% lethal. The corkscrew was somewhat witty ala Emily Blunt in The Girl on the Train.
Entertaining but try to ignore the many dumb parts.
Plot had potential but the editing ruined it
sarawages19 July 2020
Emma and her daughter Bea return to Emma's hometown looking for a change. Bea faces cyber-bullying from the cheerleaders at her high school.
I consider myself a LMN connoisseur. I've seen really good movies and really bad movies on LMN. Murder in the Vineyard had great potential - suspenseful plot, mean girls, good guys, romance. Unfortunately, the execution ruined all that.
The acting was pretty much what you would expect from a Lifetime movie. The plot had a lot of potential. However, the problem with this movie lies in the editing. It was absolutely awful!
The movie starts off with a 2 minute scene of someone being chased through a vineyard and ultimately attacked. Sounds like every opening sequence of a Lifetime movie and I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking. Sadly, the rest of the movie devolved from there. It was one giant flashback to bring us to present but it included even more flashbacks. Not necessarily bad but the way it was done was what made it hard to watch. Randomly interspersed flashbacks with no lead in or preface, just randomly inserted scenes that made me wonder if I recorded all of the movie or if there was a problem with my DVR. And the music... the background music was poorly chosen and it was so loud most of the time that it drowned out the actual dialogue. Example, Emma abd Bea are talking in their kitchen while Emma makes dinner and there is jazz music playing, which I assume was meant to be ambiance but in reality it was so loud I missed actual dialogue.
Then there are the subplots. They are so vague it's hard to tell what the actual plot is as opposed to the subplots.
I don't know if Lifetime and the production companies are struggling to get out content quickly due to COVID or if the editors fell asleep when they pieced this one together, but they failed... hard. I'm only 40 minutes in to the movie and I was so disenchanted that I had to write this review without finishing the movie. I'm going back to finish it because I can't leave things unfinished. Be prepared for a possible scathing update to this review.
I consider myself a LMN connoisseur. I've seen really good movies and really bad movies on LMN. Murder in the Vineyard had great potential - suspenseful plot, mean girls, good guys, romance. Unfortunately, the execution ruined all that.
The acting was pretty much what you would expect from a Lifetime movie. The plot had a lot of potential. However, the problem with this movie lies in the editing. It was absolutely awful!
The movie starts off with a 2 minute scene of someone being chased through a vineyard and ultimately attacked. Sounds like every opening sequence of a Lifetime movie and I wasn't expecting anything groundbreaking. Sadly, the rest of the movie devolved from there. It was one giant flashback to bring us to present but it included even more flashbacks. Not necessarily bad but the way it was done was what made it hard to watch. Randomly interspersed flashbacks with no lead in or preface, just randomly inserted scenes that made me wonder if I recorded all of the movie or if there was a problem with my DVR. And the music... the background music was poorly chosen and it was so loud most of the time that it drowned out the actual dialogue. Example, Emma abd Bea are talking in their kitchen while Emma makes dinner and there is jazz music playing, which I assume was meant to be ambiance but in reality it was so loud I missed actual dialogue.
Then there are the subplots. They are so vague it's hard to tell what the actual plot is as opposed to the subplots.
I don't know if Lifetime and the production companies are struggling to get out content quickly due to COVID or if the editors fell asleep when they pieced this one together, but they failed... hard. I'm only 40 minutes in to the movie and I was so disenchanted that I had to write this review without finishing the movie. I'm going back to finish it because I can't leave things unfinished. Be prepared for a possible scathing update to this review.
Predictable
bangel33228 January 2021
Problem with these types of films is that they're all pretty much the same.
There is usually a typical suspect and it's always that person anyways, so there's no element of surprise anywhere in the film. To be honest I don't think I can watch anymore of these.
Feels like you're just watching the same film over and over again. Plus this one was riddled with plot holes.
So bad
deedrala26 July 2020
Warning: Spoilers
LMN isn't even bothering anymore to attempt an interesting storyline with a feasible plot and motive for the usual resident psycho villain:
"Because she acts like she's better than everyone else" ??! Seriously??! An 18-year-old male in high school thinking and acting like a whiny little pony-tailed teeny-bopper, getting jealous and petty over the new girl in school attracting the attention of his soccer buddy?? So he goes to all these elaborate wacko extremes to make life hell for her?! He has nothing better to do??!
Along with everything else (writing, acting, directing, music/soundtrack) being so wrong with this joke of a movie, the casting was horrendous. The writing was obviously done by drunken third-graders. I could go on...
You could almost see the lead actors trying to keep from bursting out laughing throughout the entire tortuous hour and forty-three minutes of this absolute travesty, but I guess they needed the paycheck.
A definite must-NOT-see. Skip it for your own mental health's sake.
"Because she acts like she's better than everyone else" ??! Seriously??! An 18-year-old male in high school thinking and acting like a whiny little pony-tailed teeny-bopper, getting jealous and petty over the new girl in school attracting the attention of his soccer buddy?? So he goes to all these elaborate wacko extremes to make life hell for her?! He has nothing better to do??!
Along with everything else (writing, acting, directing, music/soundtrack) being so wrong with this joke of a movie, the casting was horrendous. The writing was obviously done by drunken third-graders. I could go on...
You could almost see the lead actors trying to keep from bursting out laughing throughout the entire tortuous hour and forty-three minutes of this absolute travesty, but I guess they needed the paycheck.
A definite must-NOT-see. Skip it for your own mental health's sake.
Pretty good for a Lifetime movie!
Chartreuse119 July 2020
Emma and her daughter, Bee, own a vineyard and are re-adjusting to life there. Beginning to settle in, Bee starts up at school and is liked by a football player. Unfortunately, for Bee, not everyone at her school is happy with his interest in her and start victimizing her online and at school. Who is it and how will she fight back? You will have to tune in to find out. Enjoyable with some continuity flaws in the storyline.
CRAPPPPP!!!!
haroot_azarian27 September 2020
What a load of garbage! Terrible acting by everyone! Oh and the twerp playing the cop? He should get a job in mcdonalds or dishwasher in a restaurant!!!! Acting is not for him!!! And #helenamattsson at her worst. Only herself and God know why she accepted the part in this nauseating codswallop!
Why bother making such a terrible movie
my_escape30 March 2021
Bad teenage high school drama. Weak story line, bad actors and all characters mis-cast. Not a single portrayal was believable. Don't waste time watching it. Deserves zero stars. Possibly one of the worst movies ever made.
It's ok
trevorbumbarger24 December 2020
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