I had intended to list out all of the many gripes I was accumulating with this film, but by the end the idiotic characters just miffed me way too much to want to bother.
The movie is very disarming in how it is presented as it almost lulls you into thinking you're watching a smart auteur movie. With its professional crisp cinematography, overall atmosphere, the ambient soundtrack, deliberate editing, a suitable enough cast, and actors making choices.
You'd never imagine the characters here to be such ignoramus dimwits.
Watching it you'd be forgiven to believe the main protagonist lady was sharper and smarter than usual since the movie really wants to give us that impression... Much of which is really the actress's doing who honestly succeeds in looking like she's always putting the puzzle together behind those eyes of hers...
Except she isn't. She's not. As new scenes and developments build on top of old ones and the movie continues to chug along toward the end, we're left to discover that she hasn't grasped onto anything. The only certainty she knows and acts on is "I don't like that Hannah lady." Every single other twist, surprise, sabotage, backstab, and reveal all come as a OMG shock to her.
Just one example:
She hears the nanny's suspicions that her husband may be seeing someone in NYC, then in the next scene her husband tells her he has to leave on a surprise "work trip" to NYC for a few days, and then the very next scene after that her work rival Hannah also tells her that she is going out of town for a few days having just made last minute plans to NYC...
The look on the wife's face says she is suspicious...
...But nope.
She literally pieces NOTHING together the whole movie. Not until her husband finally drops an obvious plot twist bombshell on her with about 20 minutes left to go in the movie. The sudden realization dawning on her leaves her so shellshocked that the movie (literally) time jumps to...
2 WEEKS LATER.
Now the cast of idiotic characters are all happy and acting as if the credits were about to roll, despite everybody knowing that the movie's villain is still out there and was never caught. And in those 2 weeks, no one has taken any precautions, added any protections, involved police at all, or ensured that their baby and nanny were somewhere safe instead of being left home alone. Nothing. They've done nothing...
Then they're all blindsided and somehow shocked when the psycho lady returns and kills some people and steals their baby. If only they could have foreseen something like this happening.
................. MY RATING SCALE .................
- 1. Reserved for Poorly Produced/Amateur Video
- 2. Utterly Terrible
- 3. Really Bad
- 4. Mediocre
- 5. Perfectly Average
- 6. Surprisingly Entertaining
- 7. Very Good
- 8. Incredibly Good
- 9. Exceptionally Great
- 10. Reserved for my Personal Favorites.
