Invasion of Privacy

I saw this on HBO years and years ago and can't find it anywhere to see it again and see if it's still good or I'm just making it sound a lot better than it really was. I used to really like "life time" type of movies and this movie falls in that category. If I remember right the acting wasn't all that good and some of the lines were cheesy but what really hooked me was the story line with the classic boy meets girl, fall in love and boy is really a crazy guy. Only this one went even farther because it was about her choosing to get an abortion and the crazy boyfriend steps up and tries to stop her. So in a way you think that he's not all that bad even though he is and she's trying to do something that not everyone approves of. I remember just seeing it and thinking wow this is something new to the whole abusive relationship type of movie. So I really want to see this again so I can if it's a good movie or not. Because when I first saw it I was just starting middle school maybe.

The first half of this movie was 'wooden'. The first half of the movie reminded me of a poorly produced high school play, The second half would have been a little better if the director had not decided to multi-screen it continuously ruining the section that might have redeemed the plot.

For a guy whose name is synonomous with the word psychotronic, screenwriter and sometime director Larry Cohen almost always delivers the political goods. He took on the FBI in The Life and Times of J Edgar Hoover, out of control police in Maniac Cop (a series that needs resurrecting in these days of Reichsfuhrer Giuliani), religious mania in God Told Me To, and, er, giant flying reptiles in Q. Invasion of Privacy echoes back to Cohen's It's Alive, only this time the monster isn't the baby, it's the father. What could have been another trite 'my spouse is an axe-wielding wacko and I found out too late' straight to cable exercise is actually a very interesting look at abortion, men's 'rights', and 'family values' in contemporary America. Recommended.

The movie was very intriguing and had very good high's and low's. It was a bit predictable nonetheless an excellent film. The movie's plot and script over-all was fabulous but the constant multi-screen and the way it was put together seemed to fail itself. Over-all, the script gives me a bias opinion to rate it excellent.

I am currently suffering through this wretched waste of celluloid as it airs on one of HBO's various channels. I can't believe that its IMDB rating is as high as it is. It's just another "boyfriend from hell" movie that only works if each of the characters behaves in ways that no rational adult ever would. The plot holes are big enough to steer the Titanic through, and the real shame is that decent actors like David Keith and Charlotte Rampling are mired in this slop. The only redeeming value of this disaster is that it proves that ANYONE can get a movie made.