Murder on Spec
Murder on Spec
| 27 August 2006 (USA)
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Kate Graham believed to have a perfect marriage, but after not touching her for months her husband Duke Fairbanks, who had an affair with her friend Diana Coles, demands a divorce. She waves the prenuptial-fixed sum of nearly a million dollars, so he lets her have the house temporarily while he lives on the yacht; his corpse is found there shortly after. An unknown man who claims he killed Duke 'for her' demands 10% of his vast inheritance. When her gay friend is arrested, without bail, she asks her lawyer to defend him. The killer orders her to have dinner, shakes the Seattle PD detective Paul Tannon, proves he knows her preferences, explains how he set Jim up and doubles his tariff to 20% now she has two lives to pay off. The unknown killer is actually a tax official called Mathis...

Reviews
Alicia

I love this movie so much

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Matrixston

Wow! Such a good movie.

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Pacionsbo

Absolutely Fantastic

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Scarlet

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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JaneDoe6147

I thought this was a good film for the LMN channel. It had me guessing throughout.Like HOW did this guy get to listen to all the transmissions? How did he get to hook into all the surveillance cameras? How was he able to leave work at free will while being on the payroll? Was his motivation merely money? I loved the ending when there was retribution, and really wanted to smack his face when he broke into the prison's computer system to make phone calls. (And WHY was he able to merely roam about the prison like that?) I gave it a "9" because it did have me wanting to see more. And I really liked it.

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caa821

Where to begin commenting on this flick? It was thoroughly enjoyable, but more on the level of science fiction than the mystery/suspense/"noir" genre as intended.The lovely Brooke is the young wife, estranged from a very wealthy (9 figures) husband, being divorced, but with the dreaded "pre-nup" precluding her gaining a lot of loot upon parting.Hubby is murdered, her best friend (a gay! man) is incarcerated as her lover/murderer by the witless cops, and she is under surveillance/suspicion, also.Enter a swarthy stranger - a man with a greater genius for computers and electronics at a level to make Bill Gates seem average - who wants $10-mil from the inheritance she can gain versus zilch if he incriminates her further. This guy has talents which, if hired by the CIA, could effect a solution to all Mideast problems, and with respect to terrorists, in perhaps a month or less.Anyway, Brooke learns this guy has done the same thing previously - murdering rich guys with young wives, little or no family, and has shaken them down like he's attempting with her.Along the way, for example, when she's approaching a woman in another city (she travels extensively on her mission), the cops there alert those at home. The detective from her home base travels there, and in company with a local tec, refers to Brooke as "One slick broad!" Actually, he may have said "clever broad;" but I laughed so hard, and then later wasn't certain which was the adjective used..The "villain" is one interesting piece of work, who appears everywhere (as a friend's grandfather used to say, "like horse****), and whose fore-mentioned surveillance capabilities seem almost miraculous. He provides a synopsis of his family history and motivation to one intended victim. It's positively amusing.The cops (or rather, one of them) finally begin to get the thought that someone other than Brooke might be perpetrating the events, but not until the last 1/6 or so of the presentation.Again, interesting and entertaining, but for reasons different from what the creators intended.

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fiore2

I'm sorry, this movie is very bad.I just watched this on Lifetime so I should have known better. As much as I love looking at Brooke Burns, this movie is terrible.Let's start with the screenplay. Horrible. Completely not believable. The whole premise of the story is ridiculous. Could something like this go on? Maybe. But the way the screenplay is written, there's just no way. It's just so outrageous. Actually, it's comical when you watch it. The acting is pretty funny as well.If you want to laugh at bad writing, bad filming, bad screenplay, watch this movie. It should be shown in all filming 101 classes about what NOT to do in film-making.

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Killa42

This is was an Okay mystery thriller... aside for a few things:1. The only person that believes that Brooke Burns' character didn't do it is her best friend who knows better... being that he's placed in jail; accused of had been hired to kill her husband, from her. Every single person that she tries to convince that there is a guy out there killing rich husbands and collecting from widows by blackmail: either denies it or calls her crazy. That alone is very unrealistic, if I'd believe her I know that one out of the hundreds of other people that she told in the film might just have given her the benefit of the doubt… but no, rather it's the freaking world against "Kate Graham." I know, its a movie... but something's in film these days are just too blasé. It's sort of like in that show Tru Calling how no one listens to Eliza Dushku's character when she says that she can hear messages from the dead. Even though that was a good show, that part was annoying.2. The killer doesn't even bother to use gloves... ever! They seem to miss this in several movies these days. The fact is that with forensics the way they are you'd think that the newer writers would try a little and place at least gloves on their hairy killers.Aside from that the movie was decent and worth watching.

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