Do You Know Me?

Well, there was really only one redeeming factor to this movie and that was seeing Twilight's Victoria, Rachelle Lafevre, in a starring role. She did a fabulous job portraying a girl who comes to the realization that her entire existence has been a lie and then is thrown into a spiral of crazy events. Rachelle still shone, despite the lack of reality and massive plot holes in this movie.

The movie pretty much gets going right from the get-go. Rachelle's character Elsa/Sophie is getting drunk with her boyfriend and friend, when her friend notices a milk carton ad of a missing child who looks just like Elsa. As a drunken prank, they call the number on the ad. And from there, things just get plain weird.

Basically, this was like that old movie, starring Kellie Martin (The Face on the Milk Carton), on steroids. With the exception of Rachelle and maybe one or two others, the acting wasn't all that great and the storyline was pretty unbelievable (not in a good way) and hard to follow. Jeremy London, who I normally enjoy seeing in movies, gave a very disappointing performance. The movie jumps from scene to scene with minimal explanation of the events and ends with a supposed twist that I found to be fairly predictable. Overall, 4 out of 10 and that may be generous. Come on Lifetime, you've done better than that!

Well, this was... not so good. The story premise itself was intriguing -a college girl discovers via a missing child picture on the back of a milk carton that she is in fact 'that' missing child and her parents are imposters who have been lying to her, her entire life.

Unfortunately the follow through here was pretty terrible; As Rachelle Lefevre as 'Ellie' starts asking questions, calls the 1-800 # attached to her photo and triggers the bad guys. The story then becomes jumpy and filled with massive plot holes. The acting was bad, the dialogue terrible and the budget low, which didn't help matters.

Rachelle Lefevre (of Twilight fame) was probably the best part of this, she did a good job in a terrible movie -except for her running skills, she struggled there and unlucky for her as she spends most of this movie on the run from assorted bad guys and crazy events as she tries to find the truth about who she is. Jeremy London plays one of the baddies and was just terrible.

In regards to Rachelle's (lack of) running skills, this was obviously made before she leaned how to do her cool action hero vampire moves in Twilight. Anyways it's Lifetime, what are you gunna do? 08.13

Starts off great. A daughter has issues with her dad, and hates being home. During a drunken night with her friend and boyfriend they come across a milk carton with a picture that looks like her. Like I said it starts off great, good acting, the lead does a good job, the direction and pacing is suspenseful. Everything progresses very quickly within the first 30 minutes, and I'm wondering where it could possibly go. Unfortunately the longer the movie goes the stupider it gets. It's convoluted and ridiculous. What the heck were they thinking. It turns into FBI secret service action cheesy nonsense, and it becomes a cheap version of ''taker''. Although I will say the lead actress looks much better with black straight hair. This was such a waste cause they had such a great thing going.

Some college friends in Seattle think one of them (LeFevre) resembles the image of a girl on a milk carton, so she calls the hotline and starts to suspect that her 'parents' have been lying to her all her life. Jeremy London is on hand as a DEA agent.

"Do You Know Me?" (2009) starts out with promise, but becomes so contrived and complicated, it's eye-rolling. The locations are good, there's a lot of chase action, and Rachelle is an attractive protagonist (who wears the same purple pants for practically the entire runtime). Otherwise, this is a letdown due to laughable scriptwriting.

The film runs 1 hour, 29 minutes, and was shot in Vancouver and Surrey, which is across the Fraser River; establishing shots were done in nearby White Rock, as well as San Francisco.

GRADE: C-/D+

The premise is great and shows promise. That alone drew me to this film. The acting wasn't great, that was clear at the outset. But I held out hope. This was a high concept with a lot of potential. What resulted, however, was a poorly-executed, very weak, convoluted, misguided effort that doesn't justify its premise. I was really surprised at how bad this ended up being--so bad that I had to review it, which I don't normally do. So bad that I want to research the filmmakers to find out how this happened. There's just so much so wrong about this production.