Micitype Pretty Good

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Kaelan Mccaffrey Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

Sarita Rafferty There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.

Desertman84 Well,this Lifetime TV movie turned out a surprise.A surprise in the sense that it wasn't an "affair on Lifetime TV to remember" but rather a woman who is scamming a man as a revenge against him because she blames him for her sister's suicide.Brooke Burns,Tim Rozon and Ashley Jones star in this Lifetime TV thriller entitled "A Sister's Revenge".Brooke Burns stars as the female fatale Suzanne who tries to go against the restaurant owner Mike Miller.She first starts to seduce him to sleep with her until she succeeds and started to wreck Mike and his family from scamming a huge amount of money, providing calamities in his restaurant,becoming a personal trainer of Mike's wife Catherine in order to place tension on their marriage and finally trying to kill Mike and Catherine's newborn infant son.If there is one thing positive I could state about this TV movie,it is the fact that it wasn't the quotation that I said earlier.It wasn't an "affair on Lifetime TV to remember"-type of movie.Instead,it was an typical Lifetime TV thriller that presented a femme fatale in Suzanne who is trying to wreck another person's life and his family until she finally destroys herself in the end.It was also typical in the sense that we found a determined villain who would not take "no" for an answer which is ever present in many Lifetime TV movies I have seen.Didn't we witness how determined Suzanne was in seducing Mike? Despite of these common story lines mentioned,I felt that the movie could have been a lot better.Too bad it wasn't and it just became a typical Lifetime TV thriller as Brooke Burns is lacking in playing Suzanne.Obviously,she is sexy and good-looking as both Bruce Willis and John Cusack were among her ex-boyfriends in real life.But her acting was so shallow as a femme fatale.The viewer would saw more of a bitch rather than a manipulator.I doubt that viewers would ever feel for her in the entire movie due to her arrogance.The same is true for Tim Rozon as Mike.I felt that she was never deceived by a female fatale but fell to Suzanne not due to her charms but because of his stupidity.One would even feel that he just got lucky in the end.Overall,it was a thriller that would probably make the viewer laugh.

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** It's when the hostess Miss Amber, Caitlin Pasquet,of Michael Miller's, Tim Rozon, five star restaurant Michael's Bar & Grill was run off the road by the wide eyed and hyperventilating Suzanne Dunne, Brooke Burns,it became obvious that Suzanne wasn't just up to no good but wanted to get close to Michael to not only destroy his marriage but also his life as well. As were soon to find out Suzanne has it in for Michael in what he did to her baby sister Ariel, Allison Busner, some five years ago in San Francisco by in walking out on her that drove Ariel to kill herself. Now getting a job at Michael's restaurant replacing the injured Amber she's to make his life miserable and by infesting his place of business with vermin drive him into bankruptcy!There's also the matter of Michael's wife Catherine, Ashley Jones, and infant son Michael Jr that a vengeful Suzanne starts to work on that will in the end almost drive Michael not only out of his bird but into prison on trumped up charges of him trying to poison his wife. Suzanne also goes so far by both getting Michael drunk on a combination of gin & vodka and having him spend the night with her to sleep it off, while video taping the entire sordid episode, as well as becoming Catherine's personal trainer. It's Suzanne who together with her pip squeak boyfriend Jimmy, Joe Marques, who also plan to turn her against Michael on an infidelity rap.***SPOILERS*** The end couldn't come fast enough with Suzanne dropping her guard and going so far as having Michael Jr kidnapped and threatened with death if Michael didn't drop his wife as well as lose his business and become, It's the only thing I could come up with, her personal sex slave. By now even Jimmy, who seemed to worship the very ground that she walks on, had just about all he could take from Suzanne and checked out on her as things started to get out of hand. Suzanne now gone completely nuts who in a life and death struggle with Michael ends up shooting herself which saves Michael and everyone else involved in this film any more suffering.

rps-2 Okay. This is a pretty good nail biter even though it has all the stereotypes of the genre...perfect housewife...sexpot villain...good looking but shallow and sneaky husband...predictable ending. Gone With The Wind it ain't but it still was better on a snowy Sunday night than ploughing the driveway. But once again we have a film made in Canada and subsidized by the Canadian, Ontario and Quebec governments that is set in Philadelphia.(!!!) We prostitute ourselves repeatedly this way because with the remarkable inferiority complex of the Canadian film industry, we convince ourselves that nobody will watch a movie set in Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver or wherever. We create a few jobs for Canadian film editors, honey wagon drivers and second rate actors that way, but do nothing to enhance our national image. As a taxpayer in Ontario, why am I promoting Philadelphia?

mgconlan-1 I watched a Lifetime movie that was having its so-called "world premiere" last night: "A Sister's Revenge," a pretty standard-issue bad-girl thriller for the Lifetime channel that shows how much Christine Conradt has set the format for these things and essentially become Lifetime's auteur, to the point where a film that she had nothing to do with (this one had someone named John Serge as the writer and Curtis James Crawford —though IMDb.com leaves out his middle name — as the director) nonetheless hits all the major points of her formula. It begins with a woman in a light SUV running down another woman riding a bicycle; we don't know who either of these two people are yet but the woman in the SUV runs down the woman on the bike and she ends up … well, we presume she's badly injured and is going to be laid up for quite a while. Then the scene cuts to a restaurant called Michael's Bar and Grill, which despite the unassuming exterior and the proletarian name is really a pretty upscale place once Crawford's camera dollies us inside. The proprietor is Michael Miller (Tim Rozon, not exactly drop-dead gorgeous but a good deal handsomer than a lot of Lifetime leading men), who's happily married to a woman named Catherine (Ashley Jones), though she's getting restive because their son Evan was just born and Michael has insisted that Catherine take the first year of Evan's life off work and mother him. Unfortunately, Michael needs to hire a new hostess because his previous one was in an unexpected accident and is going to be laid up for a while (and if you're a veteran Lifetime movie-watcher you don't need two guesses to figure out how that happened), and after turning down the first applicant (she tells him, "I can bench 250 pounds," which makes me think she'd have been a good candidate for the job: with that amount of strength, she could be both a hostess and a bouncer) he hires Suzanne Dunne (Brooke Burns), a blonde who walked in on the job without bothering to turn in an application first but because she's flirting with him (just because he's married doesn't mean he can't look!) and his gonads are in play he hires her anyway.At first I thought this was going to be another one of Lifetime's "Perfect" movies, in which the unscrupulous bad girl goes after the good guy's money and/or his bod and doesn't let the fact that he's already married to the good girl stand in her way one bit. Then we get a scene of Suzanne at home with her boyfriend Jimmy (Joe Marques) and it appears that they're in some kind of plot to scam money out of Michael. Suzanne does everything she can to sabotage both Michael's restaurant and his life, and it's not until about two-thirds of the way through the movie that we finally learn what this is all about: before moving to Philadelphia (where the film takes place), marrying Catherine and building the restaurant, Michael lived in San Francisco and had a relationship with Suzanne's sister Ariel (Allison Busner). We've only seen Ariel on computer videos Suzanne obsessively watches when she's alone at home, and we weren't sure who she was — and for that matter we weren't sure whether these were old tapes or they were Skyping each other in real time (one nice thing about this movie — which hasn't always been true of Lifetime — is at least the communications technology is up to date; there've been Lifetime films set in high school in the mid-2000's which asked us to believe that none of the students had a laptop, a smartphone or a Facebook account). Now we find out through some exposition from Suzanne and a few flashbacks (in which Tim Rozon actually does look credibly younger than he does in the main part of the movie) that Ariel took the relationship a lot more seriously than Michael did. When Ariel got pregnant she expected Michael to marry her; instead he rejected her and went to Philadelphia after leaving her the money for an abortion, and instead of having either the baby or the abortion she committed suicide. That is what Suzanne has been bent on having her titular "sister's revenge" on, and in the film's most chilling scene Michael pleads with her and asks what he can do, to which she replies, "Suffer." "A Sister's Revenge" is one of those obsessive Lifetime movies that isn't terribly good as a movie but is redeemed by a marvelous villainess performance from Brooke Burns, who makes her twisted psyche believable and even a bit understandable (her background is that both she and Ariel were molested as children by their father, and when she saw her dad raping Ariel she killed him and got three years in a mental institution for her pains), but she can't undo the effects of slovenly writing and by-the-numbers direction that portrays Michael's Kafkaesque fate in all too matter-of-fact a manner.