The Baby Stealer / A Deadly View
Movie all-around is dumb and unrealistic - like most Lifetime movies - but what ruined it entirely was the horribly miscast husband. He stood out like a sore fhumb throughout the entire thing even though he wasn't in every scene. ANYONE would have been MUCH better and more believable in the role. Why would they choose such an overweight, unattractive, jowly, whiny actor like him?? The pretty lead actress did not match at all with him as her husband - they didn't look right together.
So that was off-putting from the start.
The villain character was so badly-acted and boring that she made me yawn several times. And why was the wife so compliant to her mother-in-law's rules and commands? She wasn't in prison! She was a married woman in her own house. She should've stood up to her and told her to mind her own business. The husband and his witch mother acted like her parents to the point that she was increasingly in the role of their wayward child who needed constant discipline. So the whole thing was way off base and highly annoying with the wrong tone, bad acting, and bad casting - not to mention a rehashed-to-death plot point.
And only in Lifetime World does a woman get shot in the back at fairly close range and jump back up a few minutes later and keep talking and moving around as if it never happened... *eyeroll*
Grade F / 1 out of 10.
Movie all-around is dumb and unrealistic - like most Lifetime movies - but what ruined it entirely was the horribly miscast husband. He stood out like a sore fhumb throughout the entire thing even though he wasn't in every scene. ANYONE would have been MUCH better and more believable in the role. Why would they choose such an overweight, unattractive, jowly, whiny actor like him?? The pretty lead actress did not match at all with him as her husband - they didn't look right together.
So that was off-putting from the start.
The villain character was so badly-acted and boring that she made me yawn several times. And why was the wife so compliant to her mother-in-law's rules and commands? She wasn't in prison! She was a married woman in her own house. She should've stood up to her and told her to mind her own business. The husband and his witch mother acted like her parents to the point that she was increasingly in the role of their wayward child who needed constant discipline. So the whole thing was way off base and highly annoying with the wrong tone, bad acting, and bad casting - not to mention a rehashed-to-death plot point.
And only in Lifetime World does a woman get shot in the back at fairly close range and jump back up a few minutes later and keep talking and moving around as if it never happened... *eyeroll*
Grade F / 1 out of 10.