Offline (2012) Reviews

• Liked it

  lookwhosknocking2012-09-19

  I'm a sucker for these Lifetime popcorn movies and Cyberstalker is another fun one. I used to think it was cool to have good looking guys stalking me online, now not so much LOL. Dan Levy as the ultimate computer nerd puts in a great performance as does the dreamy Marco Grazzini as Ms OC's boyfriend. I found myself yelling at the screen "Don't go in there" a couple times, which I'm sure freaked out my neighbors haha. I was torn on the whodunnit, still always thinking that it was going to turn back to the art dealer (great interrogation scene performance by the way). The last shot I wasn't sure if they were setting it up for a sequel or just saying that we're all being watched all the time. Ambiguous can be good I guess. It definitely got me to check the locks on my door a couple extra times before I went to bed. As most of these movies, it suffers from budget issues but that's the nature of the LMN beast. Where it lacks in production value, it makes up for in good old suspenseful fun.

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• Decent

  valensia30002012-09-19

  Based (or maybe inspired by is more appropriate) on a true story, Cyberstalker puts a modern spin on a traditional Fatal Attraction type story as we find a man obsessed using the internet and technology to stalk, harass, and ultimately kill Mischa Barton's character Aidan. To me, it was reminiscent of Untraceable with Diane Lane but on a smaller scale. Surely shot in Canada, Cyberstalker has its ups and downs and a few good twists. Notable standout performance are put in by Marco Grazzini and Mark Caven. It was better than I expected it to be and is worth the watch if you like TV thrillers or mysteries.

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• Undeveloped Character and Plot

  blingatme2013-04-11

  This is a terrible movie. I watch a lot of movies and this one has no real life base. It's one thing to try and scare people into being careful, but it's another to totally shield the audience from reality. The cinematography is totally horrible. I am still not sure what Lifetime Channel had hoped to achieve form this movie. Even the leading actress is working half way - - at no point do we see her authentic self. Was it the company? The production? or the writers? I have no clue. But I feel like I want my dollar back from red-box (it was that bad).

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• Mischa Barton Is So Gorgeous

  Desertman842013-05-05

  Cyberstalker is a TV movie thriller that stars Mischa Barton.She plays Aiden,a young artist living in seclusion since her parents were murdered by her stalker thirteen years earlier; and then her peace is suddenly disturbed by his reappearance.It also stars Ron Lea,Dan Levy,Marco Grazzini and Natalie Brown.Curtis Crawford directed the film. The TV movie is formulaic and totally predictable.Which of the men in Aiden's life is the stalker come back 13 years after his first atrocity to try once again to coerce the object of his desires into a relationship - or else? Is it her new boyfriend? Is it her friend who has been bankrolling her artistic career in his gallery? Is it the computer expert who has been helping the police track down Aiden in her new identity? Is it the detective to the case or one of his deputies? While it trots out the usual suspects,one obviously knew who the stalker was an hour before the it ends. Added to that,the acting, script, and directions are as generic as the title and the conclusion comes no surprise to everyone.The only thing good about it is the fact that it is basically watchable and it definitely had its moments.I could have given it a low rating BUT Mischa Barton is so gorgeous that I had to give it an average rating instead.LOL

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• A budget of $1.8 million? Please tell me nooooooo.

  diddleysquat-12012-12-02

  (I'm not sure this is a spoiler but don't want to take chances.) *************** Nothing in this movie makes sense. The stalker breaks in by decoding the burglar alarm, lies down in the girl's bed, drops a cell phone that somehow clues the parents (with a few numbers) that the alarm system has been breached. He then emerges to kill the girl's parents and in a flash he's gone. Next we go to a scene 13 years later where a detective is still struggling to solve what would have been a very cold case. And the home invader, well, he's still at it. Did the script writer expect us to believe that a cell phone app could turn a series of deadbolt locks at the apartment of a tech-phobe who wouldn't get near anything related to electronics? Yes, we're talking plain old brass deadbolt locks. Step right up suckers. See him turn them from the outside using a cell phone! And, yes, he manages murder the woman's only friend (her therapist) by messing with the walk light at a busy intersection. Another cell phone app, it seems. You'd think the lead character would have reacted with some sadness. Well, don't expect logic here. It took at least a month to film this piece of pure rubbish. How do I know? The lead actress's hair is blonde to the roots in some scenes and has a one-centimeter outgrowth of untreated hair in others. That takes a month. A budget of under $2 million is low for movies, I know. But it should be enough for an $8 bottle of hair dye. Never mind. Not worth it. Worst TV movie I've seen outside the intentionally-bad SciFi channel stuff. Ghastly awful.

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