First off, Lifetime is very good at making their movie previews look way better than the actual movie itself. The preview made the film look kind of promising with the dramatic music and other stuff. One of the few LTM's so far where the movie looked as good as the preview if not better was 'Beware of Mom, (2020) (is it possible to feel nostalgic for something that happened less than three years ago? I miss those times!) With all that being said, I was pretty disappointed with this one.
The plot is as follows: A girl and her friend go on a camping trip together and the friend ends up murdered and her death is staged as a suicide. The girl (Fey) gets knocked out and loses her memory in the process and throughout the movie she has these seizures that cause her to have visions of the island. Based on the title alone, I thought that the whole premise was about the island that Fey and her friend went to was infamous for having multiple murders take place there and that Fey's friend was one of the unfortunate victims. Sadly I was wrong and the title was unintentionally misleading.
I couldn't watch the movie live so I had to watch it on a video recording on YouTube. But it had so much zooming in and out and it kept on skipping certain parts and replaying scenes, so you can probably imagine all of the details I missed.
The lead girls acting was horrible, and the husband/father character irritated the heck out of me! He was so strict and controlling towards his daughter that I should've known from the beginning that it was him. No sane father would ever act the way that Frank did, literally getting upset and yelling at his daughter over a bird. It was just too obvious at that point.
*Spoilers Ahead!*
So what really transpired in the movie was that it was Frank the whole time and his motive was that his reputation was at stake and didn't want Fey to leave the island. And just when I thought his character couldn't get any worse! Curt was an accomplice too, and was the one responsible for Maddie's death. Not sure if the woman from the store (who turned out to be Curt's mother) was in on it too. Speaking of Curt, he looked both 20 and 50 years old at the same time.
In fact I don't even know why Frank had Curt kill off Maddy in the first place. Was it because she was a "bad influence" on Fey? And he had a reputation to save??? So dumb!
One positive thing I can say about this movie is that I'm glad that Andrea Bogart is acting in Lifetime movies again after her almost three year break from the channel. I wish they could bring back other actresses such as Hannah Barefoot, Dina Meyer, and Jamie Luner. They were all very iconic. Matt Pohlkamp, Laurie Fortier, and Jessica Morris have overstayed their welcome.
A side note: don't mean to get all political, but the husband character kind of reminded me of Tucker Carlson, the former commentator of Fox News. And he acted like him too in some way.
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