Le mal par le mal

I swear this movie is designed for emotional people who have very little logical capacity.

The plot makes no sense. The point of extortion and kidnapping is to get the victim's family to do something, that the kidnappers themselves cannot do. In this plot, they can do it themselves but just want someone else to do it essentially (which makes no sense).

Of course the title suggests "two wrongs... don't make a right"... but that is absolutely silly. Self-defense, war, criminal justice, these are all committing acts against another human to correct a WRONG by doing something that is usually WRONG. So what you do doesn't matter unless it's particularly heinous but WHO you do it to, does matter.

Behavior itself is not immoral. Context of the behavior and the perpetrator and victim can make something moral or immoral. If a mom bear kills the wolf threatening its cubs, that mom bear is not immoral.

The only person talking sense in this movie, is the man who did the worst crimes possible...and the old mother who's too weak to just do things herself. A perpetrator who's a coward.

It's just a bizarre drama for the sake of drama.

Nurse Sarah Harris (Gillian Zinser) is a single mother to her young daughter Lauren. Someone has kidnapped Lauren and he has a demand. First, she has to take her new patient Gerald (Aidan Devine) captive. As she waits for her next instruction, she finds that Gerald is hiding a secret.

I like the premise. There are some issues with the early pacing. The grandmother is generally a problem. I don't like her budding in. I don't see her getting a confession. She is all kinds of problems. She should have one concern above all else, her granddaughter. As for Sarah, I don't know what she is thinking either but at least, she is going in the right direction until she's not. The last act is all wrong. I don't know why the movie wants these two to have a buddy action thriller. It ruins a pretty interesting premise.

As psychological thrillers go, this low budget effort isn't bad; certainly it doesn't lack for originality. Sarah is a medical professional and harassed single mother. She spends her working day visiting seriously ill patients in their own homes until one day her daughter is snatched. Before she can take meaningful action, she receives a phone call from the kidnapper. Call the police and the girl dies. As Mr X is clearly not a sexual predator, the obvious question is what is his motive, like what could he possibly want with her?

The answer is that he is not interested in Sarah but in one of her patients, a mystery man living under a false name. There are strange men watching the house, so is this guy in witness protection? Not quite, he was convicted of killing a young girl who, surprise, surprise, was about the same age as Sarah's daughter. His conviction was quashed on a technicality, so the question is, did he or didn't he? The kidnapper wants revenge, an eye for an eye, but like the man said, that leaves us all blind, and two wrongs...

So what happens? Redemption of sorts. Don't expect any thrills with a capital T, but don't believe the bad reviews either.

This movie is even better than the best episodes of "Dexter" I've ever° seen. (Just kidding.)

Holy freakin' cow, how in the (the worst possible swearing you can conceive of) do things like this get made? And who in the (just regular swearing) could possibly be the audience for this, um, stuff?

Loved the Real movie score and Lifetime movie score system. Of far more value than the show itself.

To be fair... nope, can't do it. Sorry. Good night everybody!

°normal people use "ever" for emphasis, morons (my, actually, sincerest apologies to BoJack on that)

Worth a watch if you like a decent crime thriller. Decent acting mixed with thriller plot twists. An overal worth it watch if "catch the bad guy" is your type of movie.