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I was expecting better... some spoilers


I missed the first part of this when it was on Lifetime. The title said it was another movie- I had to come here to see what it was. Of the final hour and 15 minutes or so, there was some unrealistic stuff:
"Roy" chained Maggie barefoot to a kitchen sink pipe. First of all, a small child could pull a pot metal drain pipe loose. Most are connected to PVC plastic anyway. You can see the pipe moving when she is struggling.

A kitchen stove does not get hot enough to damage the hardened steel of a handcuff or leg iron. Also, notice later that the chain she is heating is small (link size), and when Roy goes back to retrieve it later, it is much larger.

When she flees the house, she is still barefoot. When she leaves the police station, she has shoes on.

How many police departments allow a woman to walk in with part of a leg iron w/chain on her, and the desk officer takes it off and it was like "Do you want to make a complaint?"

Roy wipes down 3 or 4 things and takes the address book with his phone number. Not likely the investigators would pull phone records and get it that way, eh?

It gets out of control after Maggie goes to Mobile:

After the Mobile incident at Sam's place, what police agency takes the distributor cap off a car? Impound it and process it for evidence maybe?

I got a kick out of Deputy Dopey going out to his police car to see how the siren and lights came on (knowing the suspect may return- his boss even told him so) and doesn't even look in the back seat?

Since Roy was a cop, you would think he would know when you approach a vehicle with someone inside you want, one thing you don't do is smash the windshield with your baton. Smash the side window and yank 'em out!

For having been shot the day before, Roy cleaned Sam's clock in the boat yard.

Good thing Roy stood still long enough for the coils of cable to immediately close around his foot!

The lead actors have done much better work before and after, it was a shame to see them in a low budget turkey like this one.


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