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I love Mary Elizabeth Winstead, but she looked confused and uncomfortable in this role. Annabella Sciorra was far more convincing in the original. And Maika Monroe has very little of the flaming menace of Rebecca DeMornay in the original. The updated storyline offers nothing that improves on the original either. And Raul Castillo simply is too dull in both looks and personality to be believable as a man sexy enough for a hot woman, successful in business, to want to create three children with; in short, he's no Matt McCoy. The original was simply much better in every respect, to the degree that it did not need to be redone for any reason.

Reviews on here are either based on comparing it to the 1992 original or assessed as a stand alone movie.

In both cases this movie was just dreadful.

The plot was twisted up to the point it became sporadic, nonsensical and meaningless, the cast felt like they all wanted to be somewhere else and the characters they played were all so unlikeable you didn't really care about what may happen to them or the reasons why.

1992's "The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" was a solid psycho-thriller... but its remake, despite starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Maika Monroe, sucks - written in lame clichés by Micah Bloomberg and directed with no darkness or tension by Michelle Garza Cervera (in her first English language film). Wealthy Winstead hires as her nanny struggling Monroe... whose alterior motives become apparent via various escalating sackable offences, but duh, nobody (especially dumb husband Raúl Castillo) believes Winstead when she claims there's a psycho in her house. Winstead & especially Monroe are fine & under-rated actresses, but they deserve much better than this garbage.

Honestly, the only reason I kept watching is because I was hoping that somehow, it would get better. It didn't. The two main women characters were uninspiring, the little girl was a brat, the husband was clueless and the story was not well explained. The only good actor in the entire movie was the baby, and all she did was cry and be cute.

Yet another movie where I played more on my phone than watched. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. 4/10.

Felt like a Lifetime television movie,the quality was average.

One of many problems was casting,plus also their acting.

Cinematography was fine,but not great & any soundtrack was poorly done.

Unlike the original movie,this nannies motives was clichéd.. Both versions are based on revenge this however,lacked any real suspense.

Why does every movie like this have the partner,quickly doubting the person they love over a stranger.

Found this movie boring,it actually dragged & just wanted a conclusion.

Was hard caring for anyone,including the kids.

If this is the type of movies/remakes being made,why even bother doing them.

Go watch the original version,you won't be disappointed.