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- Directed By: Monika Mitchell
- Cast: Alyssa Milano, Samuel Page, Colleen Wheeler, Matthew Finland, Lossen Chambers
- Distributed By: Netflix
So this is my first review of a film released in 2022, and has it started off good? Definitely not.
This film was simply too silly for it's own good, it's seriously awful at handling any serious emotions the characters have, and I don't even know what to call the rest of the film.
One of these scenes where emotions are wrote very poorly is in the first 10 minutes of the film. We travel with our protagonist to her sister's house where we hear she is dealing with a legal battle against her ex. The scene wasn't originally bad at first but the edit of the film cuts away as soon as the sister begins to feel upset. It's like the editors thought "this film is getting a bit too serious, we don't want that". It's even more insensitive because the scene cuts away to an awfully choreographed robbery and it immediately dismisses any dignity the previous scene had. Ultimately it makes the death less impactful because we shared no more than a couple scenes of the sisters together.
The romance of this film was deep fried in cringe and felt incredibly forced. We spend barely anytime with the two people before they share their first kiss which makes the relationship feel as though it was strictly physical attraction. It's not that this is a bad start, but the officer takes on the case because of his feelings for the victim, feelings that we've barely scratched the surface of visualising.
The fact that this film completely ignored it's mystery genre was the nail in the coffin. Usually when there's a murder in the mystery genre the right thing to do is not reveal too much too soon. Whereas this film decides to show us how the murder happened with nothing missing. The worst thing about this is that our protagonists don't have this knowledge of what happened. But the audience know for over half the film's duration which also dismisses any empathy we could have for these protagonists because we aren't wondering the same thing, the characters are still finding out whilst we're a step ahead.
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