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This was a ball of laughs. My 12 year old daughter and I were rolling over the bad acting, horrible plot, ridiculous logic and complete lack of real drama.

I consider myself to be a Lifetime movie aficionado and even this one was hard to finish.

I found it extremely humorous that the character of Julie wore the same outfit for the whole movie. I guess they couldn't afford a wardrobe budget for her! Laughable

This is awful. The acting is horrible like a low budget movie from the sixties. Boring plot. Don't waste your time.

Synopsis: A widower's daughter sets him up on an online dating site called RomanceMatch.

Story: Peter, 42, is a widower who is not really interested in dating. His college daughter, Julie, registers him for the online dating site called RomanceMatch. A little reluctant, Peter activates his account and immediately gets a message from Alexis.

DINNER AND A MATCH Peter and Julie go out to dinner to celebrate her getting into college. At the restaurant's bar, there is a lady, who seems to be on a date, possibly a blind date, with Ian. When Peter and Julie enter the restaurant, the woman at the bar keeps staring at Peter and ignoring her date. At one point, being frustrated by her date's aggressiveness, she slaps him out of his bar stool, literally, and leaves the bar.

It's during this dinner that Julie tells her father she signed him up or the online dating site. He's not happy about it but he promises her he will give it a try.

When they get home, Peter activates his account and immediately gets a response from someone named Alexis. He accepts the connection but walks away from his computer, at which point a message pops that he doesn't see.

The next morning, Julie sees the message and reads it to her father. He's still not interested, even after Julie tells him she's hot. He leaves for work. Julie decides to answer the message acting as her father. The background music played during this scene is very telling. Imagine Alice (from Alice in Wonderland) skipping along, but we the viewer know the rabbit hole is about to open up and swallow here. The music is a bit bouncy with a touch of creepiness and warning of danger in it.

Through the message exchange, Julie, pretending to be her father, sets up a date with Alexis. Not only does she set up the date, she picks the restaurant as well. Talk about being overbearing and pushy. Whose the parent and whose the child here?

Peter is at the restaurant waiting for Alexis when in she walks. She looks better in her profile picture than in person, but don't we all. She's supposedly a surgeon (doesn't seem old enough to be one). If she is in the medical profession, which I doubt, she's more of a resident than a surgeon. But the truth about Lexi does come out. We do learn she's A RN - REGISTER NUTE!

Peter and Lexi, as she likes to be called, end up go back to his place and sleep together. Who would have seen that coming?

The next morning Julie meets Alexis and doesn't care for her. Alexis offers to drive Julie to her boyfriend's house. Julie introduces Alexis to Billy to which Alexis says to call her Lexi for all her friends do.

During an afternoon tryst, Peter tells Lexi he has to get back to work. This doesn't sit well with her and gives him the boo hoo story of having trust issues. Peter leaves Lexi alone in his house while heads back to work. BIG MISTAKE!! Nothing really earth shattering happens in this movie you wouldn't see coming, but I'm going to end the recap here.

ACTING: The acting by Brianna Joy Chomer (Julie) is lackluster. She really brought the movie down. Watching her was becoming unbearable, especially in her states of supposed anger. And don't get me started on Tom DeNucci who plays Billy. He seriously overacts even when saying Hi. The extras in the movie that have lines are just as bad. I guess that's why they are extras.

However, the acting by Jullian Murray (Code Black, Murder in the First) is spot on as a devious crazy person with no soul. Need I say more? But at times, not even Jullian could save this movie.

EDITING ISSUES: There's a scene where Peter is in his office and his assistance brings him some flowers. He tries to avoid her questions and remarks regarding the flowers by saying he has a lunch date but it looks to be evening outside. Yet, in the next scene, we clearly see it's daylight outside. See images below. The one on the left is when he receives the flowers is trying to leave. The image on the right is the next scene where it clearly daylight outside. they must have filmed the flower scene at night and the other scene during the day, edited them together thinking no one would notice.

FINAL THOUGHTS: This movie has a good premise but a horrible execution as far as the actors chosen. Not to mention the flow of the movie. It seemed choppy and the ending came off rushed. As mentioned, the only one whose acting was believe able was Jullian Murray (crazy ass Lexi).

This is one movie I won't recommend to anyone. Usually, if a movie is bad, I will still recommend it because the outcome is worth the suffering and constant eye rolling from us, the viewers. But in this case, I did the suffering and eye-rolling for everyone. I took one for the team. You're welcome

A Dangerous Game came out in 2018 and should go right back in to never be seen again. Ugh!

I really shouldn't even review it, as I tried three times to go back and watch a little more, and each time just could not stomach the silly writing orthe awful acting=this has got to be the WORST Lifetime movie I have ever seen, and I have a high tolerance for garbage!

Seriously, where do they get these people ? Are good actors really that hard to come by , apparently so !

But really, the whole plot, the script, the so called "acting" and the direction was so funny, Oh , I almost forgot the camera work in parts ..... Hilarious !

The flashbacks on the beach just cracked me up , that whole scene I would love to see again, beacause I laughed so much !!

I think you might get the message that this movie is one of the worst, but good for a few laughs !

A busybody girl sets her widowed lawyer father up in a date with a sexy young surgeon. She turns out to be a wacko who years ago obsessed about them in hospital when the wife was dying. But the girl regrets it when things move too quickly. David Chokachi plays Dad and Brianna Chomer plays the wacko. The daughter and wacko are both dark haired - a little similar looking which can be confusing.

It's fun to watch how things unfold in this tongue in cheek thriller.

Worth a watch.

The acting was poor, but I don't blame the actors, I blame the writer and the director, poor writing, they tried to make the script clever, but they rushed the process, and made the story terribly unnatural with no natural depth, it went from 0 to10 in about 30 mins, the concept was obvious, they copied the "Stepfather" concept, the director was either just getting paid to do a job, or he's not into films or maybe it's he's first film, because a decent director and better editor could of rescued that story, trust me!! I don't know how people get the funding to make those sorts of films, it's crazy 🤦🏽 What a waste of 2,500,000.

This is a good story; heartbroken and lonely, a man finds comfort in an attractive, lively woman that brings back a spark he's been missing since his wife passed. Little does he know that there's more than meets the eye. I think it's a good story. The acting was spotty at times, and the editing took me out of the zone of watching at points. I liked the villain's story and would have liked it to be explored more. Solid movie. Nothing amazing, but very entertaining and I liked how real it felt. Not necessarily with every detail, but there are definitely relationships like this unfortunately, and for a man who has felt so lonely, it makes sense why he was blind to the truth.

Was hoping for suspense at least. It sounded good... unrealistic plot. I don't want to give away too much but it's okay with the caveat that a working brain is not necessary, this is a way to pass time only!

One of the worst lifetime movie I have seen so far. The plot was dumb and stupid. The acting was poor apart from the daughter.

Terrible doesn't cover it. You could make matchsticks out of the wooden actors and the attempts at scripting were laughable.

Pitiful.... Acting was just laughable! The whole movie stupid! What a waste of time!

This movie was so awful it had laughing so hard, especially the climactic part. It made absolutely no sense, and it felt like I was watching a drama or soap opera rather than watching the usual lifetime thrillers. This movie should've been called "A horrible movie that should be avoided by all"



2/10 stars: don't waste your time

I was excited to watch this! And after 5 minutes I could not deal with the horrific acting anymore! OMG!!! WOW! Wtf? I LOVE Lifetime moves! The casting director of this movie should NEVER work again!

I went into this movie expecting not to like it, because it was a Lifetime production after all, but I didn't have anything to watch. And to be honest, the premise did sound kind of adorable. Julie (Brianna Joy Chomer) is a teenager who wants her dad Peter (David Chokachi) to get back out into the dating scene. They live in California, so he has plenty of attractive women to choose from, but he just doesn't feel like he's ready. It's understandable that she cares about him and worries that he's not happy, considering she lost her mom, so there was a lot of emotional pain involved, but I found her to be so obnoxious. Right off the bat when the movie first starts I was annoyed by her whistling. She had her earbuds in and was on her laptop, so when he walked up and scared her that was funny, but nothing about this movie is worthwhile. They have a close bond, which is nice to see between a girl and her father, but they were like friends more so than parent and child. She's dating a guy who's in a band, and he's okay with her coming home from his concerts at any time of the night she wants. I feel like him not setting boundaries is why she was persistent about trying to convince him that he needed a girlfriend. Her reasoning was that she was going to college in Maine, so she didn't want him to get lonely. I can see the logic behind that, but he's an adult who's capable of making his own decisions. If he said he wasn't ready to date, she should've left it alone. I couldn't figure out why she was being so intrusive anyway. When they're out at a restaurant having dinner, she gives him the information for a dating website. Meanwhile a woman sitting at the bar next to a man who keeps bugging her to go back to his place is eavesdropping on their conversation. When he gets home that night, he does go on the computer to check out the site, but he ultimately decides not to go through with pursuing it more. The weirdo chick who was watching him sent a message, but he didn't see it because he had already gotten up and walked away. The next morning Julie sees the message, and starts telling Peter come on she's hot you should get to know her etc., but he says no, then she's like when are you going to be ready. He tells her that he'll think about it and leaves for work. She opens the woman's message and replies, pretending to be him. She then calls Peter to tell him that she set him up for a date, and the Dodgers game they had been planning to go to that Saturday evening, she's now going with her boyfriend. The characters in Lifetime movies are always sneaky. If I was him, I'd break her hands as soon as I got home. He wouldn't have found himself romantically involved with a psycho if she hadn't went behind his back. I suppose the moral of the story is be careful with online dating, but really, it's make sure you log out of websites. You might think you can trust the people in your household, but if you're living with someone who's just overly nosy, you can't take it for granted they're not going to experience the urge to snoop around at some point, and that includes going on your social media pages if they're still on the screen and you're not around. This movie was stupid, unrealistic garbage.