CranberriAppl

With all due respect to the cast and crew, this was just weak. The protagonist was boring, the whodunnit was boring and obvious and the movie just dragged on. Why would the killer wait an entire year to try again? The protagonist was able to move to another country and live danger-free until she moved back home.

I don't think we ever saw any of her fashions or nor were we given any believable context that justified any of the killer's actions.

Don't recommend.

First off, this is yet another "inspired by actual events" movie where you can't even find a story unrelated to the movie. I wish Lifetime would stop saying this.

Kyla P was the entire draw of this movie. Her character was clearly deranged immediately which meant the movie had to keep escalating her behavior. Rebecca popped off at any and everything. By the time the five months passed, I was over her. The movie did move a bit slow given that it couldn't help but be repetitive since Lorie was buried underground but they then rushed the ending. It took a great deal of suspension of disbelief to accept that she wasn't the prime suspect until months later. She was clearly never being surveilled even though she was going back and forth to that farm.

The affair with her daughter's boyfriend was entirely unnecessary. My guess is the writers figured that just having him around doing chores wasn't going to be enough to make her let her guard down enough for him to be able to snoop around the house. That said, if you have to make sure the audience understands that a character is 18, you know you are walking a tightrope. Not to mention, the daughter was already never going to forgive her mother for the kidnapping and attempted murder so sleeping with her boyfriend was not gonna tip the scale any further. Although I do appreciate that his absence at the end meant Lorie told him to beat it.

I actually didn't find it unbelievable that Rebecca was abused as a child however the movie would have done itself some justice had it showed flashbacks to her childhood and informed us about it all instead of just having her monologue. There was no valid reason she should have treated her daughter the way she did much less the actual criminal treatment. Why was she in competition with her? Was she like that when Lorie's father was alive? I would have appreciated answers to these questions over an icky affair.

Even though the ending was rushed, I am glad the movie didn't force Lorie to understand her mother. We totally deserved to see Rebecca in handcuffs and a prison cell though.

Kyla Pratt or not, this is a typical Lifetime movie.