A View to Kill For

2023's A View to Kill For might contain the most Gothic-looking set location in the history of Lifetime TV. It's a mansion with stairs to it that seem endless. Said set location is obviously the star and yes, there is a vista out back (hence the title). Heck, you wonder if the Addams Family undoubtedly hung there back in the day. Starring Tiffany Montgomery, Samuel Whitten, and Brittany Goodwin, "Kill For" is the ultimate WASP endeavor, populated by snooty, upper-class denizens constantly being at each other's throats. In truth, it's like the members of Falcon Crest and The Stepford Wives decided to get together and make colluding magic. "I would be very careful and watch what you say around here". Okay easy sister. Attached to a production company called Almost Never Films Inc. (what??) and feeling it was inspired by the board game Clue (what the heck happened to the creepy housekeeper?), A View to Kill For is about a woman and her family who are left millions and a big-arse abode after her rich daddy dies. Murder and B & E chaos ensue because everyone is out to make the family in question miserable. The villain (or villains), well it's a long list of suspects. It could be the snotty next door neighbor. It could be the realtor that sold the mansion. It could be the fiance of the dead father. Finally, it could even be the overly friendly husband (I don't know why I sensed that). In the end we the viewer (no pun intended) finally know who the antagonist is. It's almost deflating and the result is the filmmakers running out of ideas while showcasing the bad guy (or in this case, bad girl) as a plot device scapegoat being ill-defined as a Hedra Carlson type. What's worse, we see said antagonist doing every evil act through tired flashbacks towards "Kill For's" coda. Talk about patent and amateurish. "View askew".

The movie definitely isn't the greatest. The actors are so-so. It really is hard to tell in the beginning who the villain or villainess is. There are so many that it could be. Maybe it is the snobbery of most all of the characters. Just goes to show that being yourself doesn't always work out. This movie left me wanting to fast forward to the end of it. There was no way to do that though, unless I had it prerecorded. Unfortunately, that was not the case. At the end though, it left me wanting them to make a second movie to see what happened to the family after everything happened. I'm sure that won't happen. I can't stand it when movies leave a person with a cliffhanger like that.

The Nolans are a beautiful family in which Molly and Charlie have two wonderful children, Heather and Finn. They are just barely making ends meet when a visitor arrives at their home to inform them that they have inherited a multi-million dollar estate and mansion from Molly's father, whom she never met after she was given up for adoption. The family relocates to the posh community of Blanca Bay that has all of the earmarks of exclusivity of a Martha's Vineyard. The audience knows from the prologue that Molly's father was murdered. Now, it is clear that someone in the community is targeting the Nolans. The filmmakers were successful in evoking the smugness and snobbery of an elitist community. The actors were clearly enjoying themselves in developing characters dripping with condescension and attempting to humiliate the newcomers. There was even a trickle-down effect to the bratty children of the snobs of Blanca Bay. There was not an enormous mystery in figuring out the villain. And the denouement was less than satisfactory in failing to disclose whether the Nolans might chose to make a beeline for their former home to escape the hornet's nest of Blanca Bay. Perhaps a sequel (or even a franchise) is in the offing to chronicle the further adventures of the Nolan clan in the snakepit.

2023's A View to Kill For might contain the most Gothic-looking set location in the history of Lifetime TV. It's a mansion with stairs to it that seem endless. Said set location is obviously the star and yes, there is a vista out back (hence the title). Heck, you wonder if the Addams Family undoubtedly hung there back in the day. Starring Tiffany Montgomery, Samuel Whitten, and Brittany Goodwin, "Kill For" is the ultimate WASP endeavor, populated by snooty, upper-class denizens constantly being at each other's throats. In truth, it's like the members of Falcon Crest and The Stepford Wives decided to get together and make colluding magic. "I would be very careful and watch what you say around here". Okay easy sister. Attached to a production company called Almost Never Films Inc. (what??) and feeling it was inspired by the board game Clue (what the heck happened to the creepy housekeeper?), A View to Kill For is about a woman and her family who are left millions and a big-arse abode after her rich daddy dies. Murder and B & E chaos ensue because everyone is out to make the family in question miserable. The villain (or villains), well it's a long list of suspects. It could be the snotty next door neighbor. It could be the realtor that sold the mansion. It could be the fiance of the dead father. Finally, it could even be the overly friendly husband (I don't know why I sensed that). In the end we the viewer (no pun intended) finally know who the antagonist is. It's almost deflating and the result is the filmmakers running out of ideas while showcasing the bad guy (or in this case, bad girl) as a plot device scapegoat being ill-defined as a Hedra Carlson type. What's worse, we see said antagonist doing every evil act through tired flashbacks towards "Kill For's" coda. Talk about patent and amateurish. "View askew".

The movie definitely isn't the greatest. The actors are so-so. It really is hard to tell in the beginning who the villain or villainess is. There are so many that it could be. Maybe it is the snobbery of most all of the characters. Just goes to show that being yourself doesn't always work out. This movie left me wanting to fast forward to the end of it. There was no way to do that though, unless I had it prerecorded. Unfortunately, that was not the case. At the end though, it left me wanting them to make a second movie to see what happened to the family after everything happened. I'm sure that won't happen. I can't stand it when movies leave a person with a cliffhanger like that.

The Nolans are a beautiful family in which Molly and Charlie have two wonderful children, Heather and Finn. They are just barely making ends meet when a visitor arrives at their home to inform them that they have inherited a multi-million dollar estate and mansion from Molly's father, whom she never met after she was given up for adoption. The family relocates to the posh community of Blanca Bay that has all of the earmarks of exclusivity of a Martha's Vineyard. The audience knows from the prologue that Molly's father was murdered. Now, it is clear that someone in the community is targeting the Nolans. The filmmakers were successful in evoking the smugness and snobbery of an elitist community. The actors were clearly enjoying themselves in developing characters dripping with condescension and attempting to humiliate the newcomers. There was even a trickle-down effect to the bratty children of the snobs of Blanca Bay. There was not an enormous mystery in figuring out the villain. And the denouement was less than satisfactory in failing to disclose whether the Nolans might chose to make a beeline for their former home to escape the hornet's nest of Blanca Bay. Perhaps a sequel (or even a franchise) is in the offing to chronicle the further adventures of the Nolan clan in the snakepit.