Une vie de mensonges

The premise is great and shows promise. That alone drew me to this film. The acting wasn't great, that was clear at the outset. But I held out hope. This was a high concept with a lot of potential. What resulted, however, was a poorly-executed, very weak, convoluted, misguided effort that doesn't justify its premise. I was really surprised at how bad this ended up being--so bad that I had to review it, which I don't normally do. So bad that I want to research the filmmakers to find out how this happened. There's just so much so wrong about this production.

Starts off great. A daughter has issues with her dad, and hates being home. During a drunken night with her friend and boyfriend they come across a milk carton with a picture that looks like her. Like I said it starts off great, good acting, the lead does a good job, the direction and pacing is suspenseful. Everything progresses very quickly within the first 30 minutes, and I'm wondering where it could possibly go. Unfortunately the longer the movie goes the stupider it gets. It's convoluted and ridiculous. What the heck were they thinking. It turns into FBI secret service action cheesy nonsense, and it becomes a cheap version of ''taker''. Although I will say the lead actress looks much better with black straight hair. This was such a waste cause they had such a great thing going.

It is very good in the beginning but later the story goes in a predictable way.

Well, there was really only one redeeming factor to this movie and that was seeing Twilight's Victoria, Rachelle Lafevre, in a starring role. She did a fabulous job portraying a girl who comes to the realization that her entire existence has been a lie and then is thrown into a spiral of crazy events. Rachelle still shone, despite the lack of reality and massive plot holes in this movie.

The movie pretty much gets going right from the get-go. Rachelle's character Elsa/Sophie is getting drunk with her boyfriend and friend, when her friend notices a milk carton ad of a missing child who looks just like Elsa. As a drunken prank, they call the number on the ad. And from there, things just get plain weird.

Basically, this was like that old movie, starring Kellie Martin (The Face on the Milk Carton), on steroids. With the exception of Rachelle and maybe one or two others, the acting wasn't all that great and the storyline was pretty unbelievable (not in a good way) and hard to follow. Jeremy London, who I normally enjoy seeing in movies, gave a very disappointing performance. The movie jumps from scene to scene with minimal explanation of the events and ends with a supposed twist that I found to be fairly predictable. Overall, 4 out of 10 and that may be generous. Come on Lifetime, you've done better than that!

So I feel she should of went to the cop's and that the so called dea guy was up to something I felt like she didn't fight back much at all. She should of handled this better but it was an okay movie just kinda don't like lifetime movies that make the woman look stupid .