Love Me

I watched that movie because I wanted to check some Lindsey Shaw's works. I saw its rate in Series.ly and the movie had a 5! I'm Spanish and I supposed that it was because of there were no ways to watch the film in Spanish or subtitled- I hope-. When it ended I realized that I was surprised, it wasn't what I expected cause I was thinking about the 5 stars people gave it. Although I watched its VO and even not having subtitles use, I can't say it's a bad film. It seems to be slow at the beginning, and maybe confusing, but that's the thing! A surprising ending, an amazing story, love and crime joined in a enjoying film. It is short and quick since the middle of the movie to the end, and in that part surprises become the subject in each scene. It makes you feel scared, then it makes you feel happy and then angry. You change with the characters, which are very good built. Reading the title people can think that it is just a love story, but it isn't just like that. This movie tell us the story of a murder, we are sure about who the murderer is in the first 15 minutes, but then we have two or three more options, and then is when we start to live the story. Great film, good story and construction , of course great love story and a case worthy of Criminal Minds, it's a 9!

What can I say. This movie wasn't what I expected. The acting wasn't really that good, but the plot was great. It started out really slow and I was ready to pull the plug on this one, but as it keeps progressing, the story just kind of sucks you in. This was a nice Thriller that I didn't expect to like. The plot twist at the end actually caught me by surprise. I still can't get into Lindsay Shaw as an actress (Pretty Little Liars) but she does a pretty okay job in this one. I'm a sucker for a "bad-boy good-girl" love story. Jean Luc Bilodeau did a pretty awesome job in here and it was a step up from his usual good guy roles. So if it's a rainy day out, or just bored, rent this and give it a go.

There's not a lot that can be said for Love Me. It's not the worst made for TV movie I've seen but it's far from being stellar. The only surprising grace to the movie was the story line, which was intriguing till it seemed that the writer ran out of steam three quarters of the way in and just hashed up a conclusion in three minutes. It doesn't help that the pacing is slow, loose direction and portrayed by some first class awful acting.

Let's get over the good part first. The missing person angle may not be original and the start was hardly electrifying it does become more interesting. Additional details are slowly fleshed out which indicates that there's more to a simple case of a person going missing. There are some slight turns so as to keep the story going and while it works on a small part and on an overall perspective it's in the detail where things fall apart. There's problems with the so called prime suspect and the police are little more than idiots who have no clue how to conduct an investigation and are best traffic cops with a petty grudge. As the story becomes clearer it gets less interesting and the finale is clichéd and mundane that it's not even worth watching.

The character development is pretty poor. I didn't feel any connection with the main "cast." Sylvia and her friends hardly hang out on screen which lends great credibility to the term BFF and each of them are self centered and rather vapid. What's worse is the bad boy, no one understand me pained look bad news boyfriend who inexplicably attracts the attention of the main lead, Sylvia. Sparks fly but the romance is listless, awkward and painful to watch. There's a side character plot involving Sylvia which was pointless.

The acting is quite abysmal and I blame the director for not having the foresight to detect the lack of emotive quality, nor the decency to hire actors who can actually act. The 3 rating that I have given is for the story...at least for 75% of the plot that was interesting.

I'd like to recommend this but unfortunately the sum of mistakes outweigh positivity of the storyline. Watch if there's no rerun you want to muddle through, or if you just don't care.