Blackwater Lane

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Fã d Until I watch this movie I wasn't a person that quite agreed with top actors being paid a fortune by movie. But now I think they diserve every penny! Because this acting is just atroucious! Stiff, with spitted dialogues. No pauses, no sink in some feelings... just a plastic stereotype performance. I kept imagine what a Nicole Kidman would do with the main role, another actor playing the role of the husband that would not do that terrible emotionless crap... The book is such a delight to read. In the movie you miss some parts that would be ESSENCIAL for us to understand better the character and the drama. There is no real message about the closiness of the friendship between the two female leads. The tention that could have built from the baby shop incident - if they had included it in the movie - would be a short cut for a lot of dialogue they put in there but made no sense. The amount of screen time they spend forcing us to watch the lead protagonist face just pacing, or going to sleep, or remanescence... that's two extra scenes right there, easily! The main actors were like machine guns: shooting the script at each other. The main character is not likable and carries little resemblance with the woman in the book. Her "eternal passion" guy looked like he was more interested in men. In the midle of all this terrible acting performances ONE stood out by showing of credible and well done: a major secundary part played by Pandora Cliford (Susie). She was stunning in the middle of that acting swamp. Please, don't make movies if you don't have good actors. Directors also. In this case the sonoplasty RUIN the movie. ALmost every scene that SHOULD NOT have that "suspence" melody had it everywere. Ruin it all! We could tell who the guilty ones were just by looking at the stiff performance of the "husband" and the way the director decided to capture him on camera. No affection or love or caring between the characters. The part that he took her breakfast every morning in bed - that it was CRUCIAL for the story since he was poinsoning her - undetected in the movie. A cold fish husband with a wife that spends the all movie making suprise and scary faces. Her lovability that is perceptive in the book - gone. No one understands why people should even care about her or believe her clames. In this movie you just don't. And casting a 61 years old to be her husband when they were suposed to be the same age - just doesn't work! I don't care if he was in a famous sitcom that was s#i£ anyway. He delivered a stiff performance. Horrible adaptation to an otherwise nice story. Hope it gets re-done by A list actors and directors. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 11/05/25 Full Review Erys P This movie felt like I was watching the same scene play over and over. I left without finishing it and I don’t think I missed much Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 08/06/25 Full Review Irene C Save yourself from watching this movie. Clichés, a predictable, and bad script. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 07/26/25 Full Review Jeffrey P “Trust the journey, both good and bad” it says. Unfortunately, this journey is all bad. Wow, what a dumb movie. Another what I refer to as a “Lifetime After Dark” movie. If the people who made this movie would have drank black water instead of making this movie we all could have been spared having to see it. Our predicament does improve slightly in the back half as the psychological aspects begin to take effect only to end up not psychological at all but something on another level of mental. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 06/19/25 Full Review April C You know what would surprise me lately? If Dermot Mulroney played a good guy! Every movie for the past two decades with which he's involved he's ALWAYS the "surprising good guy," because he's still pretty good looking. BUT, for those of us who pay attention, with every movie (I think) since Magnolias, he is ALWAYS the "bad guy" and he's always trying to kill a much younger wife or step daughter. Lol Bitte, y'all are just SO lazy. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 05/26/25 Full Review Bryan C Thought this looked ok I was actually going to rent it awhile back but was on SYFY this morning. I will be honest this is really just a horrible movie, the main character lady is very annoying and dumb almost as annoying as her phone ring tone. The plot, if you could call it that has been done at least a few hundred thousand times and I would wager this is one of the worst. This is one of those movies that I ended up watching just so I could make fun of it. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 03/16/25 Full Review Read all reviews

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