Everything here is predictable. Predictable to the point of my being annoyed I watched until the end. How are women (it is Lifetime after all) still so gullible in these movies? Lifetime movies in the 90s could get away with this storyline but not in 2018 and not in 2022 (when I watched).
Melissa (I think) claims she social media researched her new boyfriend, and that was enough for her. Never mind the fact that he's evasive, he's always gone (with no obvious signs that he actually works as a pilot), he hasn't shared anything about his past...so many red flags and quite frankly, Melissa is too old to be so naive.
There's nothing really new here and I think we all expect some predictability with Lifetime, but it's so irritating here bc it's overly obvious. By the time she realizes he's been lying, from that point on, we're just waiting for him to attack her and give his villain motivation. Which if "that" scene was it...weak.
I think the movie was also overly complicated giving him a wife and child instead of just making him a creep. Why was he going through all this trouble? Can violent psychos really turn it off depending on the relationship? The wife twist was just unnecessary. Also a body count and all he's doing is flying a few towns away? Yeah ok. I can believe the married man who has a girlfriend in another place and doesn't want to be exposed...but murdering to keep his secret? That's overkill. No pun intended. I did not like that he killed his first girlfriend who was the reason Melissa became aware of the danger in the first place. So unnecessary. Same for the guy in the park. So much murder and attempted murder just for the sake of keeping a secret.
If I'm honest, I was hoping for there to be a twin twist or something to shake this movie up and it never happened. Even a twist with his wife knowing about his behavior would have been a welcomed twist. The climax was lame and you guessed it, predictable. It's always amusing to me when tv protags, find and take someone else's gun and immediately know how to use it.
Probably the most annoying part of the movie was Travis (the one Melissa is really in love with clearly) going all that way, discovering John/Christian's secret and then sitting outside of his house trying to reach Melissa. Who didn't know he would end up hurt or dead. There was no suspense because it was so obviously going to happen. I honestly didn't expect him to survive (expected Christian to sneak into his hospital room and finish him off), but the only reason he did was so he and M could be together in the end. Ugh, I mean there are worse ways to spend a couple of hours than this as background noise, but you're not missing anything.
I couldn't figure out why John looked so familiar only to see that I very likely recognized him from Hang Time. Good grief, does anyone else remember that awesome show? Wow I feel old.
Melissa (I think) claims she social media researched her new boyfriend, and that was enough for her. Never mind the fact that he's evasive, he's always gone (with no obvious signs that he actually works as a pilot), he hasn't shared anything about his past...so many red flags and quite frankly, Melissa is too old to be so naive.
There's nothing really new here and I think we all expect some predictability with Lifetime, but it's so irritating here bc it's overly obvious. By the time she realizes he's been lying, from that point on, we're just waiting for him to attack her and give his villain motivation. Which if "that" scene was it...weak.
I think the movie was also overly complicated giving him a wife and child instead of just making him a creep. Why was he going through all this trouble? Can violent psychos really turn it off depending on the relationship? The wife twist was just unnecessary. Also a body count and all he's doing is flying a few towns away? Yeah ok. I can believe the married man who has a girlfriend in another place and doesn't want to be exposed...but murdering to keep his secret? That's overkill. No pun intended. I did not like that he killed his first girlfriend who was the reason Melissa became aware of the danger in the first place. So unnecessary. Same for the guy in the park. So much murder and attempted murder just for the sake of keeping a secret.
If I'm honest, I was hoping for there to be a twin twist or something to shake this movie up and it never happened. Even a twist with his wife knowing about his behavior would have been a welcomed twist. The climax was lame and you guessed it, predictable. It's always amusing to me when tv protags, find and take someone else's gun and immediately know how to use it.
Probably the most annoying part of the movie was Travis (the one Melissa is really in love with clearly) going all that way, discovering John/Christian's secret and then sitting outside of his house trying to reach Melissa. Who didn't know he would end up hurt or dead. There was no suspense because it was so obviously going to happen. I honestly didn't expect him to survive (expected Christian to sneak into his hospital room and finish him off), but the only reason he did was so he and M could be together in the end. Ugh, I mean there are worse ways to spend a couple of hours than this as background noise, but you're not missing anything.
I couldn't figure out why John looked so familiar only to see that I very likely recognized him from Hang Time. Good grief, does anyone else remember that awesome show? Wow I feel old.