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Very disappointing...

Truly Dreadful Film

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

How this movie made it beyond 4 is beyond me. Not one watchable or believable scene, pathetic direction, can't blame the actors for the otherwise sordid movie this is. The screenplay writer needs to be sent to Syria before he/she releases the next one. Even Asylum movies are better than this - wait I didnt check if this was by them b4 I wrote this so the joke might be on me

I've never seen a Lifetime Chanel film before, but I've heard them mocked as poorly made thrillers typical featuring women in peril. That pretty much sums "Fatal Defense." I'd set a series recording on my DVR to record anything that Sherilyn Fenn is in and this made-for-cable film showed up, so I gave it a watch. Fenn wasn't the main character. That would be a pretty blond haired single mom, Ashley Scott ("Into the Blue" and "Jericho"), who signs up for a self defense class and is charmed by the handsome instructor. But guess what? He's a psycho and goal all Fatal Attraction on her. Fenn has a supporting role as a police detective trying to help Scott. Ridiculous dialogue, poorly constructed suspense, laughable action sequences, and general incredulity abound. One star for Fenn and Scott, who are better than this dreck.

One may be justified in saying that the story spirals out of control. Nonetheless, we have a spine-tingling thriller here with a woman, a victim of a home invasion with her child in the house, signs up for a self-defense course.Obviously, she gets much more than she ever expected with the hard-nose instructor-even some romance at the beginning until the latter shows his true colors.The guy has committed previous murders and actually thinks that he is helping in his instructions with the macabre that descends upon our woman in question.Apparently, we see that she learned her lessons too well as we see by film's end.There are plenty of plot twists along the way with the fiend discovering who has been committing all the burglaries in the neighborhood and forcing him to plant drugs in the woman's house when she protests to the police about his extremely rough methods.

The premise alone is so eye-rollingly rote that even if it were to have been executed competently I'd be surprised if the feature was anything other than cripplingly mediocre, an uninspired amalgamation of every day-time television trope one can think of forced into the constraints of a blandly acted and boringly shot mess of a piece that features a constantly overbearing and oddly pop-infused musical score which is almost hilariously over-wrought and inexplicably loud to the point where dialogue is often near inaudible; the apparent 'experts' in the flick are so ridiculously unconvincing as they clumsily try to convince us that they are trained killers by flailing their arms or rolling around on the floor - until they're exposed to their ultimate weakness, that being slightly wet moss, of course - and every character lacks any legible arc beyond the basics of beating the bad guy for example, but it is really the absolutely awful script that drags this down to almost unwatchable levels because no one ever says anything remotely interesting or, worst of all, anything that a real human being would ever even think to say. 2/10