Title: Hidden in Plain Sight also known as Kill Me Twice
Director: Stacia Crawford
Lead Actor: Victoria Barabas (Anna) Jack Fisher (Danny)
Released: 2018
Genre: Thriller
Do you ever wish that if you could go back in time to do something different in your life? Maybe it was a bad decision or maybe you wanted to go back in time to when you were most happy. In this movie that wasn’t an option for Anna, the main character. This movie is full of crazy plot twists that you will never see coming. When I was looking for a movie to watch, it caught my eye because I never saw a serious movie where someone fakes their own death, or so I thought.
In this movie, a young woman, Anna, was in love with a man. They met at the art gallery and it was love at first sight. Little did she know that he was a dangerous man. In the beginning of their relationship, he treated her like a queen. By buying her expensive earrings, or by taking her out to a fancy restaurant. One night she was abruptly woken up by a man with a ski mask asking her where the money is hidden. He then began to choke her, as her boyfriend was in the next room, he grabbed a hair dyer and immediately started choking the robber. After the deed was done, Anna immediately wanted to call the police and say it was self-defense. Her boyfriend, Nick (Gino Anthony Pesi) began to yell at her saying that she cannot call the police or tell anyone about this situation. She then went home and began ignoring Nick. When she started doing this, Nick began to become enraged causing him to follow and stalk her. One threat that he said to her was “I’ll always be able to find you and if you leave me I will find your mom and hurt her. ” This is when she knew that she had to leave him. But how could she went she just found out that she was carrying his child? Her friend suggest that she knew a guy that can get get her a fake ID causing her to start fresh. But little did she know that it didn’t last as long as she hoped for.
While watching this movie, I wasn’t confused at all. The director did a really nice effect for flashbacks in order for the audience to not get confused. The movie was very suspenseful in some parts. I do love the story line, it is what got me so interested. If you are a type of person that loves knowing the story line before anything happens, this is a movie for you. This movie is predictable, and does not have any plot twists. If you like suspenseful but not a scary movie, I would suggest this movie for you. Unfortunately, I am not one of those people. I love being on the edge of my set constantly, and for this movie, it was only once or twice.
This movie is very dramatic and too cheesy for my liking. The movie doesn’t give background information on Nick. For example, they never go into detail on why he is the way he is. I personally think that I had no idea who the characters really were, there was no connection that I had with the characters. The director should’ve went into detail about Anna and Nick’s lives. Such as a backstory. This movie is very unrealistic, and I am very disappointed. There was no effort into making this a good movie, I felt as if it was rushed. As I researched, there are a lot of people that also feel this way about this movie. I personally think that the actors were awful, and that they didn’t know what they were doing. This movie is embarrassing. It is a shame that a movie that had so much potential, was given the opportunity to succeed.
I believe that this movie has potential, but it was a predictable story line. The main character, Anna, in my opinion wasn’t that good of an actor. It’s almost as if she was giving up the movie. I felt as if she was giving the audience hints about what was going to happen in the movie. Overall I don’t think the director went into depth with the story line, it all felt very rushed in some places. This movie had a lot of potential, but it wasn’t used, which is very devastating.
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