Revenge for My Mother
Title should be "Revenge for My Parents" since the female lead/LGG (Lifetime Good Girl) was indirectly responsible for the LBG's (Lifetime Bad Girl) father's death also, when the shock of seeing his wife's killer online caused the heart attack that led to the stent surgery that he did not survive.
Anyway, the entire movie is based on a huge contrivance that's not likely to happen in real life: LBG getting out of jail and finding a job listing for the business owned by the exact same woman who accidentally killed her mother twenty years ago.
Not to mention how it was completely glossed over with no mention of how she was instantly hired with not even a background check done by LGG, especially because of LBG's valid concern that it wouldn't be easy finding a job right after getting out of jail.
So thanks to those two glaring plotholes, we have yet another psycho-vengeance-scheme focused on the undeserving sane, normal, decent victim - with a baby, no less. In other words, more of same-old same-old re: over-the-top LMN fictional flicks. But the acting all around wasn't bad and it gets an extra point for the stiletto high heels bit because it was clever and original, unlike the other usual rehashed tropes of framing the husband/boyfriend and ruining the career/business of the unsuspecting victim, etc.
I also liked the log wrapped in the blanket as a concealed weapon until I realized that that, too, was a contrivance that wouldn't happen in real life since the baby would most likely be bawling at the top of her lungs after her blanket was taken off her and her mom left her alone in the stroller. Actually, the baby rarely ever cried throughout the movie, unless it was for convenience to the plot, like when the crying distracted the villain from her forced-suicide murder of the victim, giving the vic the upper hand which, of course, saved her life.
So because of the few yet fairly major plotholes/contrivances - no matter the well-done direction and acting - it only rates as fair..
Grade C - 4 out of 10.
Title should be "Revenge for My Parents" since the female lead/LGG (Lifetime Good Girl) was indirectly responsible for the LBG's (Lifetime Bad Girl) father's death also, when the shock of seeing his wife's killer online caused the heart attack that led to the stent surgery that he did not survive.
Anyway, the entire movie is based on a huge contrivance that's not likely to happen in real life: LBG getting out of jail and finding a job listing for the business owned by the exact same woman who accidentally killed her mother twenty years ago.
Not to mention how it was completely glossed over with no mention of how she was instantly hired with not even a background check done by LGG, especially because of LBG's valid concern that it wouldn't be easy finding a job right after getting out of jail.
So thanks to those two glaring plotholes, we have yet another psycho-vengeance-scheme focused on the undeserving sane, normal, decent victim - with a baby, no less. In other words, more of same-old same-old re: over-the-top LMN fictional flicks. But the acting all around wasn't bad and it gets an extra point for the stiletto high heels bit because it was clever and original, unlike the other usual rehashed tropes of framing the husband/boyfriend and ruining the career/business of the unsuspecting victim, etc.
I also liked the log wrapped in the blanket as a concealed weapon until I realized that that, too, was a contrivance that wouldn't happen in real life since the baby would most likely be bawling at the top of her lungs after her blanket was taken off her and her mom left her alone in the stroller. Actually, the baby rarely ever cried throughout the movie, unless it was for convenience to the plot, like when the crying distracted the villain from her forced-suicide murder of the victim, giving the vic the upper hand which, of course, saved her life.
So because of the few yet fairly major plotholes/contrivances - no matter the well-done direction and acting - it only rates as fair..
Grade C - 4 out of 10.