The Girl in the Pool

What a disappointing film. Almost similar to the Alfred Hitchcock film, Rope, but unfortunately this is laden with cringe worthy acting, bad dialogue, and a jagged storyline. It's almost as if the film had moved along several minutes without informing the audience. There were major gaps and plot holes and it was just a mess. And I didn't realise until now what a bad actor Freddie Prinze Jnr is. Looking back on the films he's been in, he acts similar in most of his movies. That kind of deer in headlights look he always has. The killer isn't much of a surprise as there weren't many suspects in the first place. A massive let down.

...but goes awry halfway.

Although Freddy Prince's performance is solid, Kevin Pollack's participation is merely testimonial, which is kind of a let down, as Monica Potter (what happened to her face?) just cannot bear the weight of improving the movie. Truth be told, all the parts were not much to begin with...

The idea is good, but it develops really bad and ends very poorly.

I must admit that I did not see it coming (good twist), but the way the story is told makes You wonder if the people (director, screenplayer and writer) knew what they were doing, because NOW I understand that their intention was to make viewers connect dots in the Guy Ritchie style (all stories and characters end up connected somehow). They fail strepitously!

The ending is bland, at best, and the feeling is that I gave away 90 minutes for nothing.

I am just going to start off by saying that my expectations shouldn't have been as high as they were. When I was in high school, Freddie Prinze Jr. Was a top billed celebrity that ruled the teen movies. I often times forget that people that were super famous when I was younger are no longer at the height of their career, and in many cases, hardly even known. So, when I saw this movie with Freddie Prinze Jr, I knew it was most likely lower budget due to me not hearing about, but I still thought it was going to be a worth while independent movie. And what I got was something that could be technically defined as a movie.

I'm not going to go too deep into the plot or anything like that. But, there really isn't anything to dive deep into. Freddie Prinze Jr has to navigate a surprise birthday party while his freshly dead mistress is stuffed into a storage container. From there, he is just manically roaming around the party trying to figure out who killed her, while hoping that no one finds the body. He never asks anyone any hard questions to try and trip them up to discover who killed her. He just keeps asking people what time they got to the party. Somehow they got Kevin Pollak to sign on to this movie, and they use him to periodically pop in to tell Freddie Prinze Jr that he doesn't like him. Freddie Prinze Jr, in turn, is constantly paranoid about who drove Kevin Pollak to the party, even though he gets that answer very early into the movie.

This was not the worst movie I have ever seen. I mean, it has Freddie Prinze Jr, Kevin Pollak and Monica Potter in it, so the acting is well enough to keep you entertained. But the plot itself just seems to ramble on a little. After the third time Freddie Prinze Jr asked someone how Kevin Pollak got to the party, I started spacing out. The ending was abrupt but ok. They tried to make it meaningful.

I'm not saying to not watch this movie. I am just saying that you really have to set those expectations lower, especially if you grew up in the "She's All That" era. This would have probably been a better play than movie.

A faux, joyous surprise Birthday Party reveals adultery and a dead mistress as an unexpected gift is the story of this Lifetime Movie Like film. The film stars Freddie Prinze Jr (Thomas), Monica Potter (Kristen), Gabrielle Haugh (Hannah), Tyler Lawrence Gray (Alex), Brielle Barbusca (Rose), Kevin Pollack (William). With a great cast like that you expect a really good film, but it goes to show you great actors can't produce with a poor script, and poor direction which is such a shame. Just when a scene in the film wasn't too bad, a bad scene that made you question and think to yourself, what were they thinking?? It's so so at best.

Okay let's just start by saying, I knew this wouldn't be great, but I still love me some under budget movies.

Within the first 15 minutes of this...piece of work? I was already convinced it was going to be bad. Strictly based on the story line that Kevin Pollak (66) is apparently supposed to be Monica Potters father... She's 53, AND she actually looks older than him in most scenes... Him and Freddy look like they could be the same age at best... but this is the father in law? Okay...

Also, when did Freddy become so irrelevant? I guess I hadn't noticed because it's been that long since he's been in anything besides scooby-doo.

Better casting, better writing, this could have been a cheesy thriller/horror , at best. I was even underwhelmed by the ending. Next 👋