Just perfect...

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

So, I'm not a Lifetime fan, but my roommates are so I was subjected to a large range of Lifetime movies to watch this past weekend and it was...horrible. But, out of all the movies I watched, this one was the least cringe-worthy. Don't get me wrong, I still cringed the entire movie, but since this is based on a true story, they actually had something fairly decent to write about.So, the movie begins by emphasizing the normal average life of almost-50 year old, Thomas Montgomery. We see his factory job, his two little girls who he loves so much, and his loving but hard- working wife who is a nurse. During this introduction, we also see the awkwardness between both the actors and the characters. There's so much awkwardness it's unreal actually. I don't even know if it's real or not because everything is that uncomfortable. It gets worse when we see them attempt sex and flop awkwardly back onto the bed, looking at the ceiling unsatisfied. I know your supposed to show that Thomas is not happy with his life, but Jesus!Then we learn that Thomas and his friends have poker night and even though his wife, who obviously needs a break too, turned down her night with the girls to let him go. So, Thomas goes and plays poker and finds out that his friends play poker online, so he goes and gets involved at home. That's when he meets Tallhotblond, a sixteen year old girl, who piques his interest. Pretty nasty, right? Oh it gets worse. Long story short. Thomas starts becoming obsessed, not with poker, but with Tallhotblond. He talks to her every night, sends her pictures of his younger self, and even goes against his wife and leaves her high and dry to sleep alone. Once she questions him about using the computer so much, he decides to use the money they don't have to buy himself a laptop, just so he can chat with Tallhotblond whenever he wants.The story becomes even more insane when you see Thomas creating a younger version of himself and pretending he's that young boy in the army again. He imagines that he's full of strength, rich, and good- looking. He works out more and even imagines he and Tallhotblond in a sexual relationship. They actually had sexual chats during the movie where you watched him (Cringe Moment) masturbate to her texts, imagining her voice in his ear. It gets even worse when she sends him "care packages" that includes a personal letter and panties, where he runs into the woods to smell them and rub them on his face. And because he's so full of love and emotion, he buys a phone with money they don't have, and goes to propose to Tallhotblond in their family bathroom. It's all so bad, you wonder how it even carried on for this long. (I'm just going to say it, this movie gets worse as time goes on. It's so wrong that I can't even come up with words to express how worse it gets.) Now we get towards the middle of the movie, yes that was all in the beginning, where FINALLY, the wife notices something. After all the signs and the constant advice from her co-worker (smartest person in the movie), she enters his computer and finds all his goodies that he saved, even the messages he exchanged with Tallhotblond. And she does like any distraught wife does, she cries. She looks at him and watches as he acts like a totally normal father, but knows it's all true when he says he's going to "go on for some computer time." The next day, when Thomas and the kids arrive, she confronts him and doesn't even think about the fact that the kids shouldn't be listening to this. So she punishes him to the couch in the garage and guess what? She also mailed Tallhotblond their family pictures and explained to her who Thomas really was. Thomas gets mad and explains to Tallhotblond how much he loves her, but it's all a waste after he finds out she's talking to his friend/ co-worker who played poker with him. Now I'm not going to spoil the ending and the "twist" because it'd just be a waste. All I have to say is, this movie was so over the top and outrageous that you kinda can't believe it's true. But it is. I read up on the actual story and the movie follows closely to it. It's just as stupid. I feel like I didn't enjoy the movie because of the bad acting, the rushing plot-line, and the events and how they took place. Thomas was such an unlikable guy and even his wife, who's supposed to be the victim, is unlikable in the sense that she let this carry on for this long. And you knew she knew what was going on because she's too close to him and she questioned him too much. She was just too blind and didn't address it beforehand. I hate the review is long but the nonsense had to be said. If you like romance/murder movies (about half of Lifetime), then this movie is for you. I'm biased in the fact that I just don't care for the channel at all, but even then, I probably wouldn't have liked it if it was shown on another channel. So, watch if you want but I wouldn't recommend if you're looking for a decent gripping movie about a romance gone wrong.

If it wasn't for the awful acting, I could maybe give it a 4. In this day in age, the plot was very intriguing and would reach out to a lot of different people. However, the main actor was literally one of the worst I've yet to see. He was supposed to be a very laid back teacher that got suckered into the Internet, but he reminded me of the main actor in Napolian Dynamite. He ruined the entire movie, and the other actors were very weak as well. This was an extremely low budget film that had maybe 10 different scenes in it. Over 50% of the movie takes place in the house. Anyone could have written and produced this movie that has ever accessed the Internet. The other big problem I had is it's all based off of an online Poker Site. I've played these sites for 10 years, and you never run into this kind of thing. Had it been based around Craigslist or something more reasonable, it could have been a lot more entertaining. As it was, it lacked a lot, and has a very disappointing ending.

Based off a true story (most are) but I remember this case in the news last year. A family is totally turned around when 47 yr old married father of 2 Thomas Montgomery becomes obsessed with a certain chat room and then becomes fixated on a young blond woman/Kate . He develops a keen interest in her too so he pretends he is a 21 year old marine sniper.This online affair last almost a year and then it starts to get out of hand when his wife used his computer and found a couple days worth of chat logs. She confronted her husband and informs this young woman her husband is not who he seems. So both Thomas's relationships are in serious trouble. He cannot seem to stay off of the computer so he signs on and actually again chats with Kate. Kate tells him she intends on seeing a much younger man Brian, a friend of Thomas's. He gets incredibly jealous and then tragedy happens. This is a surreal story of people who cannot separate fantasy from reality and they caused an absolute disaster.

An excellent film showing a mild-mannered 47 year old man lured into an internet affair with supposedly a young girl.This is a guy who basically can't accept that the years are going by and he is getting older.Laura Giacomo, as his homely wife, and a loyal co-provider to their children, gives a wonderful performance.Though he never meets the girl, their computer affair alters his personality and creates a tremendous obsession with her. A fellow worker is dating the girl and tragic consequences result in this true story.By the end, you know that there a lot of people who lie on the internet while promoting themselves. In this case, tragic consequences resulted.Anyone notice that the cop who pulled our guy in is the same gentleman who plays the mentor to our young cop Jamie in the hit-series "Blue Bloods?"