Every Breath You Take

A deeply pedestrian psychological thriller that uses the hoary old cliché of a dead child as its emotional ballast.

Little of what follows makes sense, but we learn that director Vaughn Stein enjoys the visual appeal of floor to ceiling windows, ominous piano scores and a blue-grey colour scheme that suggests a need for Vitamin D.

It's gloomy and dull, and a little bit up itself.

If you're going to make a potboiler like this, restraint isn't the right way to go.

It's disorienting and very, very dumb.

a domestic potboiler with a story ripped straight from a Lifetime movie.

It’s a psychological thriller that leaves most of the psychology buried and unexplored. So we’re left with undercooked characters, thinly sketched motivations, and a story begging for more attention and detail.

Good looks aside, this film is a bit of a mess, and it is hard to suspend your disbelief when so many questionable things are happening up on screen.

Both the writing and filmmaking do very little to make the story creative, and the results are a lethargic narrative lacking any sense of urgency in its pace are intrigue with its characters.

The clunking predictability of the plot makes it impossible for director Vaughn Stein to generate any suspense, but he does make the most of the atmospheric scenery.