The reviews here are pretty harsh for this movie, and unfairly so in my opinion. The movie covers subject matter that has definitely been done before, so it's not exactly a movie that breaks new ground. But the cast does a decent job of delivery on the material, and if you like Wes Bentley, there is no particular reason not to like this movie. There is some good dramatic tension and the main actress does a good job or navigating the situations that come up.
shareOh you poor soul. You feel offended that we trashed your crap movie? Yes it covers subject matter thats been done before many times - only problem is all these other movies were better movies. You really call this a decent acting performance? How low you must set the bar. All Wes Bentley had to do was just give the same psycho stare throughout the whole movie. This is as low trash gets, this is Z grade at its finest.
shareOh my god, I couldn't agree more! No matter how much you like Wes Bentley, there are a lot of reasons NOT to waste your time on this movie. Why introduce characters who's arc goes nowhere? The characters who are important don't have any depth or development. Too many plot holes. Terrible acting, boring dialogue, I felt like I was watching another bad episode of Blindspot.
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shareIt is indeed that bad.
shareI agree that the reviews are way too mean for the movie. These are a bunch of "smart guys" IMHO, who don't have the faintest idea how much women fear and dread stalkers. This may be a well-worn plot, but it's always fresh and scary to girls and women who get stalked far more often than you hear about.
These tough reviews are looking at the movie mechanically, while women tend to view it emotionally because of the prevalence of guys who won't let go and basically set out to ruin a girl's life --- either with cyber revenge and stalking --- or in person. So I think the movie reflected the victim's sense of paralysis and helpless terror in the face of an obsessed nut case. As well as her friends' futile efforts to intervene and help.
One of my girlfriends in college was stalked and murdered by a man who terrorized her until he finally reached a point where he went to her house and stabbed and shot her dead. She had only gone out on one platonic date with him, but he flipped after that; the cops could only protect her sporadically. I think this movie is not exactly a classic of the genre, but it held my attention well enoughbecause it resembled what my friend went through --- although she didn't even have a boyfriend to protect her.