Jenna and her mom move to a new town for her job and Jenna is a high school star soccer player who discovers that one of her teammates drowned and she's asked to take her place. Then another girl is pushed off a balcony and another turns up dead. Will Jenna be next? Who is causing these events and why? The acting was pretty bad and the story similar to other. Lifetime movies. You can skip Strike Her Dead! Nothing exciting.....
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A Soccer Team that Lacked Teamwork
lavatch4 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
The Fairmont high school championship soccer team loses three of its key players. Two are murdered, and one is left in a coma. Young Jenna has recently moved from Detroit to California, and she is expected to play a key role as the team's new goalie. But Jenna suddenly finds herself enmeshed in the murder narrative and improbably becomes the prime suspect.
The film relied on the formula of a psychopathic mastermind on the loose. But the pacing of the film was sluggish, and the clues were very slow in developing. It was curious that Alicia enlisted Jenna to find the killer, yet Alicia seemed unwilling to do any investigating herself.
In the film's subplot, Jenna is having trouble adjusting to a new school and environment, and she misses her dad. Her parents have separated, and the mayhem on the soccer team starts to bring the parents back together. There was a thoughtful relationship unfolding between the mother and daughter.
In the end, however, there were too many plot holes and situations that seemed implausible, such as the entire team somehow covering up the death of Lilly. It also was surprising that the team members would be so antagonistic to their new player Jenna. This group of cutthroat players was really not a "team" and thus not of championship caliber the we were led to believe.
The film relied on the formula of a psychopathic mastermind on the loose. But the pacing of the film was sluggish, and the clues were very slow in developing. It was curious that Alicia enlisted Jenna to find the killer, yet Alicia seemed unwilling to do any investigating herself.
In the film's subplot, Jenna is having trouble adjusting to a new school and environment, and she misses her dad. Her parents have separated, and the mayhem on the soccer team starts to bring the parents back together. There was a thoughtful relationship unfolding between the mother and daughter.
In the end, however, there were too many plot holes and situations that seemed implausible, such as the entire team somehow covering up the death of Lilly. It also was surprising that the team members would be so antagonistic to their new player Jenna. This group of cutthroat players was really not a "team" and thus not of championship caliber the we were led to believe.
This is not good with spoilers
d_adair6 December 2021
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Try and follow along because this plot is full of holes. Let's be clear even stupid people don't act this way. A soccer team is celebrating a victory at the beach. The goalie is being a party pooper. We never find out why, but the whole team apparently starts drinking though the beer cans look like grocery store brand lemon soda. The goalie dies I guess because she gets drunk and drowns. Instead of calling for help they push her out to sea and get rid of her car (not sure how they accomplish this as there was apparently no budget for those scenes. Why do they do this? They don't want to lose their scholarships to big time U. New girl shows up in town and takes over at goalie. She grows suspicious of what happened to the last goalie so she starts investigating on her own. She is troubled because her parents are divorcing. Also someone mysteriously steals the seat off her bicycle. Two other team members wind up hurt by some mysterious person. The coach gives what is supposed to be a rousing pep talk and tells the girls to hold hands and wade into the ocean. Somehow this brings the team together. It is clear the writers had zero ideas. New girl really starts poking around now though she never quite figures it out until she overhears the entire evil plan of the team's captain who is sleeping with the coach. That'd be creepy except the actors are all clearly pushing 30. Suddenly a police detective shows up after bloody clothes are found in the new girl's locker. This cop is not only incompetent, but seems to just fill up screen time doing nothing. He eventually disappears from the movie and you're left wondering why this character was ever there. Also the mom meets a new bf. In typical Lifetime fashion he is handsome, rich, and unattached. The new girl hates him. She need not worry because he just disappears from the movie too. Enter the father. His role is to show up with the mom and take a bullet at the exact moment the bad guy coach is going to kill his "teenage" lover and frame the new girl. New girl hooks up with hunky fellow student who I think was the bf of a teammate who is now in a coma. None of this makes sense. It all ends happily as new girl becomes a world class goalie, dad becomes the new soccer coach (no mention is made of him being shot) and mom is seen now with a new bf who has only showed up in the last 5 minutes. No one loses their scholarships to Harvard because of underage drinking or hiding the body of a dead girl. Cue happy good time music and roll credits. This is bad. They changed the title (never a good sign). I guess Lifetime needs to fill the schedule, but it is hard to figure out who will enjoy this. It has no respect for its audience and is hackneyed and boring.
Just a little hard to believe
hoops-5343622 April 2022
Ok, so it's feasible that a soccer coach would be involved with a HS girl- happens in real life. But, a HS soccer coach who pays the refs off to get wins and then, with the help of his HS sweetie, kills two of his own players and almost kills another one, and sets up his new player to be suspected of one of the murders....wow! He's greatly reducing his roster and they don't even have a salary cap!
Just too much to believe- a nice trip into fantasyland.
Also, if you're going to show soccer action scenes (or basketball or whatever) PLEASE get some real players to make the scene realistic. The soccer scenes were pathetic.
Probably doesn't deserve even a three. Who produces this crap?
Just too much to believe- a nice trip into fantasyland.
Also, if you're going to show soccer action scenes (or basketball or whatever) PLEASE get some real players to make the scene realistic. The soccer scenes were pathetic.
Probably doesn't deserve even a three. Who produces this crap?
What did I just watch?
ablondmoment12 July 2022
okish I suppose
haroot_azarian13 April 2022
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I'm not going to review the movie, apart from it being average. Rene's part at times was comical. Stacey was really annoying and she was never reprimanded for her suggestion about Lilly. In fact her and all her teammates who participated in pushing Lilly into the sea and moving her car should have been punished by the law for evidence tamperiing. Also we never get to see whether Jenna's mom and dad reconcile and get back together in the end, despite the final scene of the movie, which in fact threw more confusion to the unanswered question.
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