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I submitted the 2 goofs earlier today after watching this movie for the second time (which I sometimes like to do with certain flicks), and decided to write a review when I saw Stoshie's review about the invisible knockout.
I played it back multiple times in slo-mo also, and I saw her drawing her left leg up as he climbed on top of her, then she turned on her left side and raised her right hip to his inner thigh. Apparently that was supposed to be the move that debilitated him and kept him from hitting her with the axe, but it was awfully weak and wouldn't have stopped anyone in real life. So a huge gaping plot hole that they didn't even bother to mask with an actual believable obstacle preventing him from killing her with his weapon (tsk tsk, Lifetime's getting lazy) - only the fact that it's the first most important rule of LMN movies, that the lead actress/heroine can NEVER EVER be killed by the bad guys. Injured, bleeding, hit/punched/slapped/kicked, starving, tied or chained up, sometimes (but rarely) even raped, but never killed.
The other gaping plot hole was the sister, Becky, magically finding Sandra out in the middle of nowhere. She even said near the end when Sandra complained that no one would ever find them - "I found you, so...." I expected her to go on to explain just how she had found her, but of course she didn't. So I went ahead and filled in the blank by assuming she had somehow waited around near the gas station and followed Carl there since she arrived at the cabin shortly after he had, but why she would do that not knowing he was going to the location of her sister, I don't know. I can only fill in the gaping plot holes up to a point, since I didn't write the thing to begin with.
Other than those 2 plot holes and the 2 goofs that I posted elsewhere here, the movie was pretty good with good acting all around and a unique, original plot.
7 out of 10 / Grade B-
score 7/10
deedrala 10 October 2020
Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6164332/ |
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