I've heard the acting was bad, but i don't think that's true. The writing was worse then common scam scripts, the writing makes the acting seem much worse than it is. It's disappointing to because you can see the budget this movie had, watching it, the cinematography isn't half bad, its the writing that does it. When i saw the name and description i was counting on one of the classic, mass-produced, lifetime style thriller movies, and while I'm 100% sure that's what they wanted to do it felt more like something in between a parody and a student film drawing inspiration from these types of movies. The sub plot of the romance between the son and the neighbor is also wildly unnecessary. The characters presented aren't fleshed out enough to have you rooting for them, in fact i found my self most attached to the antagonist of the movie, the one with the most thought out story and background. Overall, the movie is choppy making time jumps every 30 minutes, and poorly written, i think had they given it another 6 months to really figure out the flaws in this movie they could have had something that was exactly what they wanted it to be and could have fitted right in with LifeTime.
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