My Sister’s Serial Killer Boyfriend (2023)

Warning: Spoilers
IDK, I usually appreciate when the villain is known, but this movie was so basic. Rib and Lifetime clearly enjoy him as a villain. When was the last time he played a good guy? I think I enjoyed his psycho weatherman and conman with a random Boston accent more.

This movie would have been better if Hayden had one face for Olivia and another face for Maddie. He seemed like the kind of nut who would enjoy taunting her and running game on her sister, driving a wedge between them. That was a missed opportunity.

This movie fit every stereotype of the “journalist,” the boss who doesn’t let them run loose, and the redshirt IT guy. Oh and the landlord who bc he wants his rent money and says so, has to be a creep that they look down on. He ended up dying for them. The scenes of Maddie and Jack were so hypocritical. She’s so ethical hooking up with a guy she’s “investigating.” Safety conscious too. I don’t like characters like Maddie. Pushy, rude, users, but are always shown in these movies to be right. No matter how off-putting their behavior is. I do appreciate though that the conflict of interest wasn’t ignored by the police. That was lowkey surprising. Also glad she got a dressing down from her boss after her “friend” slash colleague died for her. I’m honestly over innocents getting killed for the protags in these movies. Why should a character die and the main get nothing but bumps and bruises? Two men died for these sisters who only used them both for what they could get.

These two actresses are popping up in a lot of LMN movies lately. Revell’s acting is super stiff for most of the movie, which I guess fits Olivia’s unbothered way of living. She does sell me on her terror when she realizes what her fate might be. She was the same way in that nanny movie last year (yes, I use LMN as background noise during the work day). Maddie’s actress was decent. This role seemed more appropriate than another movie I saw her in as the mother of a high school student.

This movie would have been ten times better if it had turned out like the Podcast Murders. Perhaps a storyline where Maddie had a psychotic break after the kidnapping (and presumed death) of the baby sister. It seemed primed for it, and I would have liked that twist.

Something positive: finally in a Lifetime movie, the shadowy, hooded figure is actually not a fake. It’s such a pet peeve of mine when they try to trick the audience and use a stuntman or woman that is clearly not the character it’s meant to be.if that wasn’t Rib, then it was clearly someone with his body type.

I actually walked away probably within the last fifteen minutes to do something and ended up missing the movie’s end. Decided to watch it all over again so I could review it after a complete viewing. Which probably says something about how gripped I was by the climax?

Lifetime movies are graded on a curve, but they’ve aired better movies than this within the last several months. So it’s hard to give it a complete pass. Even if I do like Rib. These sisters are no prizes and the movie telling me they are the heroines is not enough for me to go for it.