Sorry, this movie sucks

Sadly Over-hyped

I really don't get the hype.

Disturbing yet enthralling

I enjoy both Lifetime movies and the TV show Supernatural. I often use terms from the latter in reviews of the former, such as gank when someone is killed. This one tries to combine both and fails. It's stupid, but not in the normal cheesy way some of us have come to love about Lifetime movies, it is a bad stupid.This movie starts out standard Lifetime fare with Shannon Elizabeth as the female in jeopardy. Even her quasi-amazonian beauty (she's taller than almost everyone else) can't pull this one above 1 star. It's obvious who the Lifetime psycho (LP) is early on despite an attempt to paint the ex-husband as the culprit. This would have made a decent hour long episode, but it went off the rails in the second half.Alex was in jeopardy once from LP Michael and then he fell off a cliff. His spirit then jeopardized her and others. She lets a low budget Miss Cleo instruct her on dealing with the LP, or the spirit that is the LP. Bad advice, as it didn't work! She should have called Sam and Dean Winchester! In the end, she ganks Michael's spirit and accepts the ongoing marriage proposal from Chris.The plus side- her boyfriend has a cool C2 Corvette, but of course he's not smart enough (despite being a lawyer) to use jackstands under both sides of it.It's something of a running joke that many Lifetime made in Canada movie actors have guested on Supernatural. It's kind of like the Canadian Law & Order in that respect. I got a chuckle out of the fact for this one out of the main cast, only the villain/spirit Michael (Christian Campbell) had played on Supernatural.One other observation- this situation brings to mind and reinforces Barney Stinson's hot/crazy scale from How I Met Your Mother. Alex is hot, so she's expected to be a lot crazier than the average Lifetime heroine.Regular movie score: 1/10 (higher is better). Lifetime movie score: 2/10 (higher is stupider).

Another piece of junk TV movie from Canada, YOU BELONG TO ME is a film of two halves. The first is a typical and cheesy stalker thriller in which a young mother, played by American PIE's Shannon Elizabeth, finds herself stalked by persons unknown, a psycho who stands around outside her house and provides a few POV shots.This being a made-for-television movie, you know things are never going to get too serious or violent and so it proves. There are sex scene cutaways and about two non-violent deaths in total. The writer gets bored with the whole predictable stalker plot around halfway through, so throws in a twist and then turns the film into a supernatural horror film. Elizabeth's character is consistent in that she still isn't believed. There's one special effect in the film, right at the climax, and it's very cheesy indeed. Elizabeth was pretty much the worst actor in the American PIE films and so it proves in this hopeless effort.

*mild spoilers but read this instead of losing 103 minutes of your life* Like others, I started to watch this, had other commitments, and taped the last 90 minutes.. how do you define 'fast'? the speed with which I taped over that 90 minutes of media! the audience was expecting the 'new hire' to be the real culprit stalking our heroine when the 'plot' was pointing to the abusive ex-husband. of course, we were waiting for a twist so we could start to poke holes in the story. instead, we got some supernatural bizarre climax that looked like it came out of a short story written by a 10-year old... oh: and two people jump out of a speeding car and land on the grass with only a few bumps & bruises! hmmm -- I'm not sure which part of that conclusion was more juvenile.How sad: clever young writers of novels and screenplays are out-of-work and THIS gets made?Movietime? 'time' to get a real 'movie'...

SHANNON ELIZABETH is a young woman being stalked by a co-worker and there's no big surprise as to whom the stalker is once that plot development occurs. And the first half of the story is good enough to be convincing up until the point that something happens which destroys their relationship forever. No use going into the actual details which would spoil it for anyone watching for the first time.After that, the yarn has a hard time seeming credible although the suspense is mild enough to keep the viewer watching. ANDREW KENNETH MARTIN is convincing as the woman's boyfriend who wants to find out who is stalking his fiancé and Christian CAMPBELL does a good job as the man who creates all the problems.Technical credits are fine in this made-for-TV movie which strains believability but has enough intrigue to keep one guessing as to how it will all end. It all feels like something inspired by a Mary Higgins Clark novel--even the title.