A Sister's Revenge (2013)

A different way of telling a story

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Well,this Lifetime TV movie turned out a surprise.A surprise in the sense that it wasn't an "affair on Lifetime TV to remember" but rather a woman who is scamming a man as a revenge against him because she blames him for her sister's suicide.Brooke Burns,Tim Rozon and Ashley Jones star in this Lifetime TV thriller entitled "A Sister's Revenge".Brooke Burns stars as the female fatale Suzanne who tries to go against the restaurant owner Mike Miller.She first starts to seduce him to sleep with her until she succeeds and started to wreck Mike and his family from scamming a huge amount of money, providing calamities in his restaurant,becoming a personal trainer of Mike's wife Catherine in order to place tension on their marriage and finally trying to kill Mike and Catherine's newborn infant son.If there is one thing positive I could state about this TV movie,it is the fact that it wasn't the quotation that I said earlier.It wasn't an "affair on Lifetime TV to remember"-type of movie.Instead,it was an typical Lifetime TV thriller that presented a femme fatale in Suzanne who is trying to wreck another person's life and his family until she finally destroys herself in the end.It was also typical in the sense that we found a determined villain who would not take "no" for an answer which is ever present in many Lifetime TV movies I have seen.Didn't we witness how determined Suzanne was in seducing Mike? Despite of these common story lines mentioned,I felt that the movie could have been a lot better.Too bad it wasn't and it just became a typical Lifetime TV thriller as Brooke Burns is lacking in playing Suzanne.Obviously,she is sexy and good-looking as both Bruce Willis and John Cusack were among her ex-boyfriends in real life.But her acting was so shallow as a femme fatale.The viewer would saw more of a bitch rather than a manipulator.I doubt that viewers would ever feel for her in the entire movie due to her arrogance.The same is true for Tim Rozon as Mike.I felt that she was never deceived by a female fatale but fell to Suzanne not due to her charms but because of his stupidity.One would even feel that he just got lucky in the end.Overall,it was a thriller that would probably make the viewer laugh.

***SPOILERS*** It's when the hostess Miss Amber, Caitlin Pasquet,of Michael Miller's, Tim Rozon, five star restaurant Michael's Bar & Grill was run off the road by the wide eyed and hyperventilating Suzanne Dunne, Brooke Burns,it became obvious that Suzanne wasn't just up to no good but wanted to get close to Michael to not only destroy his marriage but also his life as well. As were soon to find out Suzanne has it in for Michael in what he did to her baby sister Ariel, Allison Busner, some five years ago in San Francisco by in walking out on her that drove Ariel to kill herself. Now getting a job at Michael's restaurant replacing the injured Amber she's to make his life miserable and by infesting his place of business with vermin drive him into bankruptcy!There's also the matter of Michael's wife Catherine, Ashley Jones, and infant son Michael Jr that a vengeful Suzanne starts to work on that will in the end almost drive Michael not only out of his bird but into prison on trumped up charges of him trying to poison his wife. Suzanne also goes so far by both getting Michael drunk on a combination of gin & vodka and having him spend the night with her to sleep it off, while video taping the entire sordid episode, as well as becoming Catherine's personal trainer. It's Suzanne who together with her pip squeak boyfriend Jimmy, Joe Marques, who also plan to turn her against Michael on an infidelity rap.***SPOILERS*** The end couldn't come fast enough with Suzanne dropping her guard and going so far as having Michael Jr kidnapped and threatened with death if Michael didn't drop his wife as well as lose his business and become, It's the only thing I could come up with, her personal sex slave. By now even Jimmy, who seemed to worship the very ground that she walks on, had just about all he could take from Suzanne and checked out on her as things started to get out of hand. Suzanne now gone completely nuts who in a life and death struggle with Michael ends up shooting herself which saves Michael and everyone else involved in this film any more suffering.

Okay. This is a pretty good nail biter even though it has all the stereotypes of the genre...perfect housewife...sexpot villain...good looking but shallow and sneaky husband...predictable ending. Gone With The Wind it ain't but it still was better on a snowy Sunday night than ploughing the driveway. But once again we have a film made in Canada and subsidized by the Canadian, Ontario and Quebec governments that is set in Philadelphia.(!!!) We prostitute ourselves repeatedly this way because with the remarkable inferiority complex of the Canadian film industry, we convince ourselves that nobody will watch a movie set in Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver or wherever. We create a few jobs for Canadian film editors, honey wagon drivers and second rate actors that way, but do nothing to enhance our national image. As a taxpayer in Ontario, why am I promoting Philadelphia?

Exciting taut thriller with a woman hell-bent on extracting revenge against a guy who impregnated her sister. The latter killed herself.What makes the movie this good were the ways that this gal goes about in trying to destroy the life of the guy. Putting roaches in the restaurant that he owned and subsequently setting fire to it, drugging the guy and then getting him bed, having him arrested for poisoning his wife which she had done, and finally the kidnapping of his infant son.The head lead is vicious, cunning and an absolute joy to watch on the screen. How she methodically planned each step in her evil plan is exciting to watch. Did anyone notice that the wife of the guy is a definite Hillary Clinton look-alike?