The Deadly Look of Love

I thought it was really good. I hate how it ended. But I thought it is worth the watch if u like lifetime movies.

"The Deadly Look of Love" is essentially "Fatal Attraction" with a couple of twists added onto the back half. The ending will not surprise anyone who has seen more than two or three Movies of the Week. It is yet another cautionary tale about succumbing to temptation, and it adds nothing fresh to the genre.

Brett (Vincent Spano) is engaged to a beautiful woman who just happens to have a sizable trust fund. Even though he has it all, he risks losing everything by starting up a steamy side affair with Janet (Jordan Ladd). Janet, a doe-eyed blonde from Cedar Falls, falls hard for Brett, and she does not take it particularly well when he comes clean about his engagement. Shortly after the wedding, Mrs. Brett turns up dead in the master bedroom of the large, luxurious home she shared with her new husband. When the police question Brett, he promptly points the finger at Janet. Following her arrest, Janet seems to get loonier by the minute - not that she was the picture of stability before. Her defense attorney (Holland Taylor) is convinced that Janet is innocent and is hell bent on proving it.

Did she do it or didn't she? How will it end? You can find out the answers to these questions the next time "The Deadly Look of Love" airs on your local station. And be sure not to miss the moral of this beautiful story: men are pigs, and women are crazy.

The only redeemable thing about this entire movie is Holland Taylor because she is an amazing actress. Everyone else (Jordan Ladd, Vincent Spano) were completely melodramatic and over-acting. Granted, television movies are not supposed to be of Oscar-winning calibers but this takes the bad-television movie genre to an entire level of horrible. Jordan Ladd's character was over-acted and too melodramatic even for a psychotic character. Other supporting characters like the mothers of Vincent Spano and Jordan Ladd made the movie worse by feeding off of their costars bad acting. The scenes were so predictable that my friend and I were anticipating the dialogue before it happened and then ending up to be right. The music made it even worse. It was your classic bad tele-flick, made worse by terrible actors. 0/4 stars

Nutjob (Ladd) forces herself on a horny guy (Spano) and kills his wife when he does not return her love. And all the jilted women of the universe cheer when he's convicted of the crime. Yes, jilted women have another cheesecake while LIFETIME television brings you a twisted version of reality. It doesn't matter if the man wasn't guilty -- WOMAN empowerment is more important than truth and justice. Send him to jail for cheating.

My mother was watching this when I visited her recently. The pathetic writer made up new laws for the trial lawyers. Allowing the murderer's lawyer to completely disregard reality.

A judge who was asleep during law school, a man perfectly framed by what was obviously a nut case female. The Bad Man cheated on her

--- Ohhhh ---

Isn't that a good enough reason for Nutjob to KILL HIS wife.

Just a foolish chick flick, the kind real people avoid like the plague. This is only for malcontents who sit on their bums feeding their face with cheesecake because they can't get dates.

It's not a cinematic masterpiece or anything, but it was enjoyable. I didn't find it to be overly predictable, and towards the third act, I wondered which way things would go. Sure, some aspects were exaggerated, like the courtroom theatrics-- but Holland Taylor brought a great performance into this lower-budget film. The main actress did a pretty good job as well.