Deadly Patient

No surprises here. From the get go we are introduced to the wacko of the week - a jilted guy who kills his ex Girlfriend then falls for the doctor in the hospital after he stages a murder suicide.

Sometimes a twist is good and this one is just too much plain sailing. The acting by the wacko is very obvious.

A typical stalking plot. The bad guy falls in love with the doctor who saved him. It wasn't too bad until about 15 minutes from the end. That's when they jumped the shark with the stupid, totally unrealistic conversation between the two of them talking over the computer. And then to rub salt in the wound, she has another conversation with him five minutes later. If it weren't for that, I'd give this a six. But I think I'm being generous giving it a five. I didn't have any complaints with the actors, they were fine. Although Detective Meadows character seems to take her role a little too serious.

If you enjoy soap operas, this is the movie for you!

Of the gajillion moments in this film that had me face-palming and throwing my hands up, it's the exchange that occurred just after the 67 minute mark that finally made me lose it with the sheer, maddening stupidity of every character in this movie.

The scene starts with the lead woman getting a video call from her psycho stalker in which she recognizes his location and says, "My God that's my house." Then... man, then she engages him in conversation with befuddlement like she STILL hasn't grasped that this guy has been behind everything the whole movie (the murders, the sabotage, the hacking, the break-ins) despite having already made that conclusion a few times by now in earlier scenes.

She checklists the deadly events of the film as he 'evil-genius' explains how and why he did them. All to her shocked bewilderment (again, despite scenes having already shown her figuring things out just minutes ago). And then, astoundingly, less than 2-minutes into this exchange she asks him, "Where are you?"

Seriously?!?

"Where are you?"

She goes from 'That's my house' to 'Where are you' in the matter of 100 seconds?!

She knows that her sick mother is at home, the same home that she recognized the stalker is currently calling her from. The same stalker who had just admitted to murdering her best friend, his previous girlfriends, a guy she met earlier, and got her fiance fired.

Yet she finishes the rest of this scene trying to respectfully plead with the guy to go find psychological help.

That scene is merely just one of many like it in this film and I still have another 17 minutes left to go.

Sigh.

***edit: WTF?! Literally another 2 minutes later this entire conversation happens again when she calls her sick mom, shocked to learn that there is a mysterious male nurse there with her now. The woman asks to put him on the phone and... to her shock and horror discovers that the nurse is actually... her stalker! And he's in her house!!

The very same stalker who had just video called her only minutes ago from that very same house. And once again she kindly pleads for him to seek mental help.

That's it. I'm done. I don't care how it ends. These back-to-back scenes have already killed too many braincells.

This one is an okay thriller. Typical Fatal Attraction-style film but not bad if there's nothing else to watch during what's turning out to be our Covid-19 quarantine decade lol.