Best movie of this year hands down!

It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

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

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

OK, so when I went to buy one of my favorite films from Blockbuster, I found out that it was one of those Buy One, Get One Free deals. The only other movie, which had at least a dozen copies left, was a Lifetime original movie entitled The Craigslist Killer. At first, I had no intent of actually watching it, but will nothing to do, I watched it. To start off, it is much better than I thought and probably one the best if not the best Lifetime film ever (remember, it's Lifetime and the movies are cheesy and bad). About the first 20 to 30 minuets of the movie are all about showing how Phillip Markoff (Jake McDorman)and Megan McAllister (Agnes Bruckner) met and fell in love. Then, the film takes off. Bruckner and William Baldwin who plays Detective Bennett provide very believing roles, but McDorman's is mediocre. None the less, the film becomes very intriguing with Markoff living a double life as a good boy doctor and a criminal. Then the last ten minuets happen. In real life, Markoff didn't actually love McAllister but used her as cover. In the movie, obviously a Lifetime trademark, they make it this corny, mushy movie in which Markoff takes his own life and writes his so-called love's name on the wall. The music is terrible, the acting is decent, the story is very interesting, and the romance is horrible. Could be a 7 or 6 without the end, but a 5/10 which is none the less watchable. If it's on TV and you have nothing to do, you should watch it.

Jake Mcdorman, besides being ridiculously attractive that he is unlike the real bad guy, did a decent job portraying the role of Philip Markoff in this movie by hiding his psychotic other personality from others for a significant amount of time. It was a role that he definitely knew how to act out without trying too hard which made it an overall good movie besides being easy on the eye. His TV wife however, was a bad actress, and honestly didn't have much charisma for the role. Perhaps a more well established actress could have been considered, who knows? He isn't a big actor either, but does a thorough job. I had a hunch that a movie like this would come out onto Lifetime just because Lacy Peterson and Natalie Holloway were also made into movies and were broadcasting on Lifetime. No big shocker there. Still this was a sexy thriller that i definitely enjoyed even though i normally don't watch Lifetime.

Though very much different, why did the last scene evoke memories of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in 1951's "A Place in the Sun?"Philip Markoff had it all. Brilliant beyond belief, a winning personality and a girl who loved him deeply, and yet he threw it away due to the fact that he was a complete psycho. Amazing that he was able to balance his life for as long as he did.The film didn't concentrate on his family life other than to say that his parents separated and his mother showed up at his engagement party. As quickly as she showed up, that's how fast she evaporated from the film.Once the police were on to Philip, he goes downhill very quickly.You wonder how is fiancé could have been naive. Love is certainly blind.

Like the rest of the world (it was a trending topic on Twitter) I was anxiously awaiting the world premiere of The Craigslist Killer. I'll give it this: for a Lifetime movie, it wasn't half bad. Could it have been better? Yes. At times the acting was bad, the music was cheesy, and it was a bit slow for the first thirty minutes. I was expecting the killing scenes to be a bit more intense than they were, but I guess that's what you get with a woman's network. I think if this had been taken to the big screen and directed by Scorsese it would have been a box office hit. You have to remember that Lifetime is a network directed towards women, so the movies are directed towards women as well (hence all the romance in the beginning.) All in all I'd say it was a decent movie. It wasn't something I would pay money to see, but it was something that filled my time and kept me semi interested.