nomad472002

Now I know what people mean when they talk about "Lifetime" movies. The first hour or so is as predictable as a sunrise. It doesn't take long for suspicions to surface, and who it is who's up to no good. The only thing that is not obvious is the why, which comes up during the end. It's a twist that I did not see coming, but maybe ought to have.

It's during the last :15 minutes or so, when the whole thing falls down. This is the worst "last :15 minutes" I have seen in a long time. I won't give away the ending, but it's just totally implausible. People just don't act like that, especially police officers.

My wife and I watched this last evening, wondering all the while why the story was being told with the chapters in reverse order. We needn't have wondered. It becomes clear that the story wouldn't work well in reverse, as the big reveal comes in chapter 1. The story is interesting, and the acting passable, but where the movie falls down is in the casting. It becomes clear at the end that Alena and JB are of approximately the same age, whereas in the other chapters, this does not appear to be so. The actors portraying them have 14 years difference. With all due regret, it is also difficult to imagine Tom and Alena as a couple. JB and Poppy have 19 years difference. Jonas Chernick is simply too old for his part. He ought to have stuck with writing the story, which was fairly well done.

The central premise of this episode is the dumbest thing I have ever seen in my life, bar none. Now let me see if I get this straight... the Russian mob tells a guy, "If you fight one of our professional fighters and win, you can keep what's yours. If you lose, it's ours." Really? In a state where it's as easy to buy a gun as a pack of cigarettes, I would not wanna be the one to try telling that to someone who owns a million dollar slip, and a multi-million dollar boat. This was only the fourth episode of this Dreck that I saw, and it was the last.