Dangerous Intentions

Lovely Donna Mills stars as a battered woman who after leaving her abusive husband flees to a shelter. Corbin Bernsen acts cruel enough. Robyn Givens is effective as a battered woman she meets and gets killed by her ex. The system doesn't protect her when she has to go into witness protection.

Highlights flaws in the system. They made them better in the 90s.

Part Burning Bed part Sleeping with the Enemy Corbin Bernsen is chilling as the abusing spouse out to make Donna Mills life a living hell. Robin Given's role is small I wanted more. This movie about domestic violence is good but could have been better.

The horror of this most unwanted situation is the absolute hopelessness of the victim's case when she finds herself utterly powerless. When a man or husband turns off to a road of brutality, the question is, whether it is at all possible to make him turn right again. Unfortunately an overwhelming lot of cases refute that possibility. It becomes like an addiction, he just has to turn on again in that fury and go berserk again and again, until society has had enough and has to stop him. The wife is helpless, her awareness of it just goes from bad to worse all the way, the only way through is to endure it, and here at least she has the great opportunity to state her case at court, which is the highlight of the film - the court wants to charge her for contempt of court, but her case is too strong, too convincing, too real, for anyone to be able to raise any objection. And alas, her case proves too real and true, as she is not the only one whose husband tries to murder her - there are three million American women being abused by their partners on a daily basis, resulting in three deaths per day. This social problem is more than just outrageous.

I struggled to watch this movie because the sound is so awful. There's a loud wind noise throughout that was driving me insane! It's a shame as I enjoyed it otherwise, but I could never watch it ever again due to the sound issues. How could they finalise the movie without realising how bad it really is? It's very odd. The acting isn't great, but not the worst I've ever seen. I've seen this kind of storyline many times before, but I thought it was well written and believable. I really wish they could've reshot it, but I guess that would've cost too much money. If you can manage to handle the awful wind noise overshadowing it, then it's worth a watch. If you're easily irritated by background noises, maybe give it a miss.

There's a constant wind noise through most of the movie. This can be caused by failure to use a device called a "dead cat" (or "dead kitten" for a small one). This is a furry cover for the microphone that slows the wind before it hits the microphone and makes noise.