Midnight's Child

MIDNIGHT'S CHILD starts out with a bang -literally- when a young woman in Sweden is bludgeoned, then blown up! Her name was Anna, and she's replaced by her killer (Olivia d'Abo).

The scene switches to the US, where a busy wife and husband are expecting Anna's arrival as their daughter's new au pair. When "Anna" shows up, she starts causing trouble right away. The wife grows suspicious while her husband remains oblivious to "Anna's" creepiness.

Nothing overly exciting happens until the last 20 minutes or so, when "Anna's" true identity is revealed along with her secret agenda. This part is pretty good, and comes as somewhat of a surprise. It's rather absurd, yet fitting in a weird way.

As made-for-TV thrillers go, this one is worth watching, especially for the opening and ending sequences. Ms. D'Abo is perrrfectly demonic in her malicious role...

I do not under stand all the bad talk about this movie; I mean come on! this was not intended as a hollywood block buster, it was made for lifetime TV. If you actually watch the movie closely or more than once, you will see that it is really kinda eerie. I watched this movie the very first time it was aired on october 1992 and have watched every rerun on lifetime since. I give it a solid 8 of 10

Apart from being low-brow from the start, this film is not even merely interesting. It's just a waste of time and money. What bothers me the most is the fact that the makers seem to have picked a the girl's country of origin at random - since they weren't going to check any facts out before shooting.

I'm surprised they even got the car plates right. But it's downhill from there. The Volvo is clearly American, European cars arrange headlights differently. There are no catholic schools for girls in Stockholm, at least not of importance, since catholicism is a less important religion than Islam in Sweden.

The differences between Sweden and the US are not that great. I mean, she messes up the dinner because she can't use the microwave? Give me a break.

This film is not worth the 90-or-so minutes. Just fast forward through it and you'll do fine.

This isn't a bad movie when you consider it was made for TV and probably did not have the biggest budget. It keeps you interested until you find out all the secrets, then you are kind of disappointed. Basically the plot is a mix of 'Hand That Rocks the Cradle' and 'Rosemary's Baby' so after a while you can see where things are going. With a better script and actors, this could have been pretty good; instead it is just an average TV movie.

I've seen this film and I must say, the first 7 minutes of the movie are really awesome, and thats all I can say about the film. If the film could hold the atmosphere from the beginning it would have been a GREAT film, but I think the makers ran out of inspiration :)

I rated this film 6