Une Épreuve Dangereuse

From the header I put you may be able to guess that we didn't like this awful movie. It is the pits. Let me admit I am a UK movie watcher. The school system in the USA is rather different to here, so the dumbness of the students is rather unreal to us. It also influences us in accepting that this is a feasible plot or characterisation. The casting is to be questioned regarding the role of Madison; it weakens the believability of the character. The more I write the more incensed I become. The movie is rubbish. Period.

First of all the villain cousin plays a 17/18 year old when clearly this is a grown elder. She has to be at least 35ish. Horrible casting on that part; she sounds and looks like she could have played the mom or if this was a story about a creepy grown woman who wanted the dad I don't know but this wasn't the role for her. She also sounds like she smoked 100 cigarettes right before being cast; and her acting is bad. There are plenty of teens especially those in other lifetime films who probably wanted this role and would have been more believable. Even if they got someone in their early 20's.

Another reason for the one rating is because of course it's another typical lifetime story with the most oblivious characters. Let's switch it up lifetime. Let's create a movie with sharper characters.

The villainous role, played by Madison Willits, just goes too far beyond reality. I'm sure the actress is very talented but the script and director's role push this over the edge. But I think what got my goat the most was the closing remark related to compassion. Compassion was the furthest thing from my gut! How about some compassion for the poor guy in the driveway scene! The only reason I didn't give a one star was the overall talents of the actors. But they should have declined the whole thing.

First off, this is a Lifetime movie so one should know what to expect, and the rating can't go that high. But this is one of the better ones of the genre.

Sydney Meyer plays the villain excellently! It's effectively the main role and she does it so well. The way she uses her voice and her gazes are very well done. Would be nice to see her career move into more feature films.

I don't watch this sort of lowest common denominator stuff but am unwell in bed and it's on tv. It's pretty horrible acting, direction and story. But the worst part, is that the "killer cousin" of the title is meant to be a high school student of 16 or 17 - yet the actress playing her is at least 34 years old. Her petite stature doesn't fool us. That's just asking for a little roo much suspension of disbelief.