Fatal Reunion (Video 2005)

Fatal Reunion: Directed by George Erschbamer. With Erika Eleniak, David Millbern, Michael Bergin, Juliet Landau. Eleniak is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to “spice it up” a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.

“On occasion, even the big mega-buck films, with A-list stars and 9-figure budgets, have to contain ridiculously silly omissions to further the plot.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut it seems that these u0026quot;Lifetime,u0026quot; stories, with far from A-list-staffed personnel, do this about 95% of the time.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHere, about a hundred or so words of clarification and conversation between the two leads could have precluded all of this nonsense. Of course, then the contact between Laura and her sociopathic former classmate would have been precluded, and the story would have ended after 15 minutes or so. Incidentally, if this had occurred, and they would have just shown a test pattern for the last 100 minutes, it would have been about as entertaining.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eRussell is a hard-working ad executive/husband, and wife Jessica feels heu0026#39;s cheating from things she has heard, from her stilted observations, and inferences drawn from his erratic, often late work schedule.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut for cripes sake, a one-minute conversation between them, and the fore-mentioned 100 words, could have informed her of the fact that he was on the verge of concluding a deal which would have them all set for life, necessitating long hours and occasioning dining with an attractive woman (about which sheu0026#39;d heard from one of her equally-shallow friends).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eEven this vacuous woman should have understood that. Hubby could have offered a few words of explanation of his own volition, but frankly, the hot -shot ad exec pretty much matched her in the u0026quot;vacuousu0026quot; department.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eSo enter the sociopathic former classmate, and his equally (or more) sociopathic companion, and you now have twice the number of vacuous personages on-screen, a story which a challenged 12-year-old could predict, and a whole slew of characters about whom one couldnu0026#39;t care less.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003e(Incidentally, after Jessica initially meets Marcus, and he – purporting to be a big-deal real estate mogul, invites her to dinner – where she chortles about this upcoming assignation with her friends, the dialog here is something which would make the conversations among the nerdy teens in the old beach blanket flicks seem like something highly-intellectual by comparison. And the inevitable brandishing of various weaponry at the conclusion could have been culled from any number of Lifetime u0026quot;sociopath-menaces-innocent-familyu0026quot; past presentations.)”