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That was an excellent one.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

First off, this is a typical Lifetime movie. Both the acting and dialogue is so-so. That having been said, I don't regret seeing this film.This film is based off a book by Jeffrey Deaver and does maintain his use of a twist and a sinister villain. Like I said, the film isn't top notch but for fans of Deaver's, his story elements aren't betrayed. I also thought the subplot about the main character's custody battle and the reasons he didn't want to go back to helping law enforcement were well handed.I guess what I'm saying is the core is good, even if the execution is not.

Well, got to tell you why: 1) Their screenplays always with very bad dialog, making every character's speaking and talking a bit of unreal, like recited from memory, and everybody speaking with pure American English without any accent. Nobody got any background accent like everybody grew up in the same house, same school, same neighborhood, same area, same city and same State.2) Horrible nonsensical sound track. The background music in every movie alwayssounded like the same. Lot of time the sound track started without anynecessity and stopped abruptly without any reason.3) The funny thing is every role in the Lifetime movies is just so polite and sounds like well educated.4) The female characters are always played by pretty women, you just can't find any ugly ones, even the young kids are pretty.5) Very lame directing.This movie is no exception. You might get brain tumor if you force yourself to keep watching it, just by listening to the pure American English without any accent by everybody would drive you nuts.

I understand the need to prevent the loss of human life and the need to try and determine where the killer "The Digger" is going to strike next.I also understand how important the document is.What I DO NOT understand is this: 1. What happened to the cell phone the guy made the call with? 2. Why was there absolutely NO EFFORT to try and determine WHO the dead guy (presumably the BRAINS behind the operation) was? *****SPOILERS***** That should have taken priority over all. If you could identify the guy, you MIGHT be able to identify his friends, acquaintances, etc. Even though it came out in the movie later that the dead guy was a "patsy," there had to be SOME kind of contact information between him and the REAL brains behind the operation.Other than that big plot hole, it was a very "family oriented" crime drama. Something you could watch on a rainy Saturday afternoon with the kiddies and talk about how your family compared to his family, etc.The most fun I had out of the movie was watching how they made Toronto stand in for Washington. Oh, and BTW, the Winter Garden Theatre is not just a few doors down the street from The Royal York Hotel.

This is a decent although unremarkable thriller in which the FBI recruits an ex-agent who is an expert in verifying and examining documents. He has a lot of personal issues including an ex-wife who wants the kids and a son who is still suffering the after-effects of being terrorized by a murderer he had put in prison several years before.Although director Norma Bailey does a decent job in all departments and the actors handle their roles competently, the movie itself soon falls into fairly predictable patterns and scenes and the potentially interesting idea of showing how the analysis of documents and profiling of killers actually works is reduced to a few gadgets and flashes of insight. Instead we are distracted by family drama.I cannot tell if the poverty in the script is due to Jeffrey Deaver's novel or to Ron Hutchinson's adaptation. I am not familiar with Mr. Deaver's works and the two other movies I have seen written by Mr. Hutchinson -- who also co-produced this TV-movie -- have not been very interesting, so I suspect it is not Mr. Deaver's responsibility. However, whoever is responsible, unless you are a fan of the genre, you can give this a miss.