Encounter with Danger (2010)

Memorable, crazy movie

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

***SPOILERS*** Going to the resort town of Pine Mountain in Washington State for an accountant convention Jack Anderson, Mark Humphrey, mysteriously disappeared from sight on his way there! That has Jack's distraught fiancée Lori Parker, left out in the cold wondering if there was foul play or that he ran off with a mistress, that she had no idea about, he'd been cheating on her with.Things start to crystallized for Lori when out of the blue this mysterious stranger David Abbott, Neill Feannley, contacts her with information about Jack's disappearance. Abbott tells a confused Lori that Jack together with himself had uncovered a scheme by the top brass of their multi billion dollar computer chip company ACT, Advanced Cerulean Technology, to cook the books on its record earning which in reality have hit rock bottom. If that was made public it can not only land ACT's CEO Elliot Maine, David Nyki, behind bars but bankrupt the company throwing thousands of its workers out on the street and on the unemployment lines! At first thinking that Abbott is some kind of a weirdo Lori in meeting him realizes that there's some truth to his story when he's run down, and put into a coma, by a car at their prearranged, the Mountain Point Ferry Terminal, meeting spot! It's now up to Lori to not only find her missing fiancée Jack Anderson but prevent herself from being offed by those who want to keep from the public, and the FBI, the sleazy and criminal accounting practices by ACT that she's gotten, from the now comatose Abbott, wind of! ***SPOILERS***Not only that Lori also has a secret chip that Jack gave to her for safe keeping that reveals the true nature of ACT's earnings! It's, the chip, the only thing that's keeping Jack alive in him not revealing to his kidnappers, those thugs working for ACT, where the chip is! Passable made for TV crime thriller only worth watching in its star Shannen Doherty, as Lori Parker, convincing performance as the targeted victim of a business scheme. A Scheme that can, if made public, cause a major flagship company in the computer chip industry and the thousands that it employs collapses like a house of cards! In fact it's in knowing that which made a good part of the movie totally unbelievable!***MAJOR SPOILER*** Not that if revealed it could happen but why in hell would someone a career employee working for it-ACT-go along with Lori in causing that to happen! Without Lori, in her being the smart cookie that she is, realizing that she's being set up by him!

I found this made-for-TV movie to be a poorly disguised knockoff of Roman Polanski's film FRANTIC (1988). This one is a mostly slow moving "missing person" corporate conspiracy mystery.Shannen Doherty (Lori) checks into a small-town hotel while her fiancé, a corporate accounting consultant, skips the check-in and goes straight to a meeting. He immediately goes missing and is not seen or heard from again until almost the end of the movie. "Lori's" frantic search to find her man begins... with frustrations at every turn.This results in lots of meandering searching (virtually no dialogue) in the first hour and really makes the plot drag. Ho-hum. Fortunately, I watched it on my PVR (like TIVO) and resorted to using fast forward a lot. The last half hour is more swiftly paced and leads to the happy outcome of the corporate baddie getting his just desserts. No big surprise there!This is the kind of movie to watch on a rainy day at the cottage when you've watched everything else that you brought with you.