"Killer Ending" was a convoluted meta-drama on the life of a mystery writer, Agatha Sayers. Agatha is in the process of completing a novel that is "intercepted" on a computer chip by a devious mastermind who kidnaps Agatha's daughter Sarah and intends to appropriate Agatha's work for her own. The action unfolds as the author is in the process of writing her new novel on her computer.
The pacing of the film was sluggish as Agatha's assistant, Caroline Villos, emerges as the devious sociopath seeking to steal Agatha's work and her identity. The kidnapping was extremely confusing with Caroline's son, Stephen, unsure about whether to take his orders from "Mother" or from Agatha. The hysterical young Sarah is constantly being tormented while in captivity by Stephen.
A crazed fan named Harmon Gillette is stalking Sarah and discovers the truth about Caroline. Yet Harmon's character was never fully fleshed out. The climactic scene in the warehouse was clumsy in failing to identify what finally happened that prevented Sarah from killing Agatha. Did the weirdo Harmon finally come to her rescue? Or did Detective Roger Smith break free of the handcuffs placed on him by his partner Emily?
One of our favorite actresses, Emmanuelle "Lifetime" Vaugier, plays the thankless role of Agatha. For the beleaguered author, there were so many distractions that she barely had time to write! But the film's biggest flaw was the failure to show how the lives of Agatha and Sarah were saved. Was this a problem in the editing room or the screenplay? The password to Agatha's computer, as devised by Caroline was "do or die." Due to sloppy production values, it turned out that the film died a slow death.
The pacing of the film was sluggish as Agatha's assistant, Caroline Villos, emerges as the devious sociopath seeking to steal Agatha's work and her identity. The kidnapping was extremely confusing with Caroline's son, Stephen, unsure about whether to take his orders from "Mother" or from Agatha. The hysterical young Sarah is constantly being tormented while in captivity by Stephen.
A crazed fan named Harmon Gillette is stalking Sarah and discovers the truth about Caroline. Yet Harmon's character was never fully fleshed out. The climactic scene in the warehouse was clumsy in failing to identify what finally happened that prevented Sarah from killing Agatha. Did the weirdo Harmon finally come to her rescue? Or did Detective Roger Smith break free of the handcuffs placed on him by his partner Emily?
One of our favorite actresses, Emmanuelle "Lifetime" Vaugier, plays the thankless role of Agatha. For the beleaguered author, there were so many distractions that she barely had time to write! But the film's biggest flaw was the failure to show how the lives of Agatha and Sarah were saved. Was this a problem in the editing room or the screenplay? The password to Agatha's computer, as devised by Caroline was "do or die." Due to sloppy production values, it turned out that the film died a slow death.