I must admit, I didn't get through this one. I had to quit when my suspension of disbelief was stretched too far. I was hoping this was going to be another great Lifetime revenge flick, but boy was I wrong.
The movie starts with a hard working, compassionate waitress, who is so kind that she even covers for a mother & son who try to commit a dine & dash. She's also an aspiring actress who is getting lots of small parts lately, and is up for a big one.
Enter the antagonist, another aspiring actress, who has been losing parts to our heroine, and decides to sabotage her latest audition by slashing her tires. She thinks this will guarantee her the role, but since she shows up half drunk, and pregnant, she wouldn't have gotten it anyway. But since our heroine is such a nice person, someone loans her a car, she gets the role, and becomes rich, famous, married with a four year old daughter. The bad girl gets run over in the parking lot where the audition took place, gets scars on her face, loses her baby, and her husband turns into a complete jerk.
The fact that this happens in seconds, with no real transition, except three words on the screen "FOUR YEARS LATER", makes this movies clunky and hard to watch.
Another big problem is that they push the stereotypes waaaay too far. The good girl has blonde hair & minimal make-up; the bad girl has black hair and goth make-up. The bad girl's husband has long stringy hair, wears too much denim, and is constantly drinking. Come on! To get us to care about these characters, you have to have more character development than that!
So now that it's four years later, the good girl is a big star with a huge house, and a husband & daughter. The daughter is having a birthday party, and the bad girl has tracked them down. She plans to crash the birthday party, and kidnap the child. The bad girl has had some kind of psychotic break, which is quite sudden. It's been four years, why does she suddenly go crazy, kill her husband, his girlfriend, and decide to go after her nemesis? There are so many plot holes in this train wreck.
But where they really lost me is the kidnapping at the birthday party. The bad girl kills the entertainment guy, takes his costume, and crashes the party. She drugs the mother, and snatches the daughter. We're supposed to believe that the drugs kick in just as the last mother is leaving. Not one of the mothers picking up their kids notice she is incopacitated, but they are so strong, that they render her unconscious just as she closes the door on the last guest. Wow! Those are some specific, intelligent drugs! They knew just when to fully kick in!
Guess what! We don't get to see hardly any of the kidnapping, just the bad girl putting the child in the basement with the dead bodies. No hunt for the kid, no nothing, just more words on the screen. Yup, you guessed it, TEN YEARS LATER. Give me a break.
So now the good girl has lost everything, and is working back at the same diner we opened with. She has been in a hit show for several years, was living in a HUGE house, and we're supposed to believe that she's now broke?! Oh, and also that the diner is still open, and is willing to rehire her. Are you freaking serious?!
This is where I checked out. I don't know how this ridiculous story ends, because I just couldn't take anymore. I love Lifetime movies. There is real entertainment in their library. If you want real guilty pleasure entertainment, I recommend the "Stalked by My Doctor" anthology, "Watch Your Back", Sometimes the Good Kill", "Stalker Club", "Killer Reality" and "Sea Change" to name a few of the good ones.
But someone should have stopped this travesty when they first read the script. It's just bad, and never should have been made.
The movie starts with a hard working, compassionate waitress, who is so kind that she even covers for a mother & son who try to commit a dine & dash. She's also an aspiring actress who is getting lots of small parts lately, and is up for a big one.
Enter the antagonist, another aspiring actress, who has been losing parts to our heroine, and decides to sabotage her latest audition by slashing her tires. She thinks this will guarantee her the role, but since she shows up half drunk, and pregnant, she wouldn't have gotten it anyway. But since our heroine is such a nice person, someone loans her a car, she gets the role, and becomes rich, famous, married with a four year old daughter. The bad girl gets run over in the parking lot where the audition took place, gets scars on her face, loses her baby, and her husband turns into a complete jerk.
The fact that this happens in seconds, with no real transition, except three words on the screen "FOUR YEARS LATER", makes this movies clunky and hard to watch.
Another big problem is that they push the stereotypes waaaay too far. The good girl has blonde hair & minimal make-up; the bad girl has black hair and goth make-up. The bad girl's husband has long stringy hair, wears too much denim, and is constantly drinking. Come on! To get us to care about these characters, you have to have more character development than that!
So now that it's four years later, the good girl is a big star with a huge house, and a husband & daughter. The daughter is having a birthday party, and the bad girl has tracked them down. She plans to crash the birthday party, and kidnap the child. The bad girl has had some kind of psychotic break, which is quite sudden. It's been four years, why does she suddenly go crazy, kill her husband, his girlfriend, and decide to go after her nemesis? There are so many plot holes in this train wreck.
But where they really lost me is the kidnapping at the birthday party. The bad girl kills the entertainment guy, takes his costume, and crashes the party. She drugs the mother, and snatches the daughter. We're supposed to believe that the drugs kick in just as the last mother is leaving. Not one of the mothers picking up their kids notice she is incopacitated, but they are so strong, that they render her unconscious just as she closes the door on the last guest. Wow! Those are some specific, intelligent drugs! They knew just when to fully kick in!
Guess what! We don't get to see hardly any of the kidnapping, just the bad girl putting the child in the basement with the dead bodies. No hunt for the kid, no nothing, just more words on the screen. Yup, you guessed it, TEN YEARS LATER. Give me a break.
So now the good girl has lost everything, and is working back at the same diner we opened with. She has been in a hit show for several years, was living in a HUGE house, and we're supposed to believe that she's now broke?! Oh, and also that the diner is still open, and is willing to rehire her. Are you freaking serious?!
This is where I checked out. I don't know how this ridiculous story ends, because I just couldn't take anymore. I love Lifetime movies. There is real entertainment in their library. If you want real guilty pleasure entertainment, I recommend the "Stalked by My Doctor" anthology, "Watch Your Back", Sometimes the Good Kill", "Stalker Club", "Killer Reality" and "Sea Change" to name a few of the good ones.
But someone should have stopped this travesty when they first read the script. It's just bad, and never should have been made.