Driven Underground

I have watched some bad movies in my life but this one is absolutely the worst. Not only is the acting poor and non believable, the movie does not even follow the story line. The best acting in the whole movie was the horse. The fish in Molly's house,or possibly the first victim that was shot. I would have given it a 0 but 1 was as low as I could vote. The police department was a complete joke. Along with their investigation. Even the cell phone tracking was not plausible. Only one single bad guy from the "mob" was convicted. The new neighbor who owned a big ranch and no source of income just played his role with the same silly grin in every scene. I had to go wash my eyes out before I could even write a review.

I'm not a huge fan of Kristy Swanson to begin with. She seems like a very nice person but her acting is subpar at best. She often overacts any emotion she is supposed to be portraying in her character or maybe it's better to say she just doesn't come across genuine. She lacks sincerity in her facial expressions. I feel like every lifetime movie is very predictable anymore. The bad guy goes down or goes off to jail and two people fall in love. The one thing I really didn't like about this movie was Lochlyn Munro playing the bad guy. The mustache he had was so ridiculous, it was hard to look at. I like him so much more when he plays the good guy roll. I'm not sure who plays Kristy's daughter but she to did a horrible job of acting. She is standing right inside the barn door and she keeps sticking her head out knowing that the man that wants her dead is only a few feet away. I guess the flight or fight response was not working for her.. It wasn't the worst movie I have ever seen but it's definitely not in my top 10.

In Ridgewood, Washington, Christy Palmer (Emily Tennant) witnesses a murder in the woods and escapes. She and her mother Sarah (Kristy Swanson) are interviewed by Detective Reagan West and Detective Boyce (Lochlyn Munro). She pick outs contract killer Karl Harvey from the database. He is arrested and her family is harassed. He is released on bail. With the other witness disappearing and their home broken into, Sarah decides to run to a cabin in the Oregon woods. Mother and daughter befriend neighbor Tom Wilcox.

This is a Lifetime movie of the week in the women-in-danger series meaning every Lifetime movie. Boyce is far too obvious. There is some drama to have a shocking twist but he takes it all away. Otherwise, this is very standard with very standard writing. It would work better with a less creepy Boyce. This has nothing new. The tension is limited due to its predictability. When West figures it out, she should have put Boyce on most wanted. At the very least, she could notify the locals to send help. After Sarah get contacted, she should be on the run. This is formulaic without much care in the details.

This story line was so predictable and it possibly could have been entertaining to watch if it wasn't for that over bearing music score that tried to build suspense every single moment. Why don't these made for TV producers just rely on the actors delivering the suspense rather than a cheap music score that I have heard a thousand times before?

Kristy Swanson plays a bit of a dipstick mom who asks the dumbest question to the detectives, "If my daughter agrees to testify in open court and points this murderer out won't that put my daughters life in danger?" Duhhhh!!!!!!

So the hit man murderer is released on bail and he immediately goes on the hunt to first scare the teenage witness and her mom, and she persists in identifying him when the court date arrives the hitman seeks to find the mom and daughter and kill them both. Of course there is a dirty cop helping the hit man which provides the audience a direct but unrealistic mechanism to mistrust all cops and sympathize with the mom and her witness daughter.

While still on the run from the mobs hitman mom and daughter hide out at a horse farm run by a good looking young widower and sparks eventually fly from both guns and lonely hearts.

This is nothing special but I can't call it a complete waste of time so I will give it a 5 out of 10 IMDB rating.

I've seen a few b list movies. You know you take cheap cop movies at face value because they weren't written wit amazing twists and acting. You don't expect award winning plots and complex characters. but this was not just predictable. this was atrocious. I like the actor who plays tom from other movies. I even have seen Lochlyn Monro do some better acting. Swanson's character was appalling. the number of holes in the plot, the major flaws in the police department, too numerous to mention. there is no need for spoiler alert. this movie was spoiled the second it was produced.