The Wrong Woman (2013)

Too much of everything

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

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

Former The Wonder Years mainstay Danica McKellar stars in this another "The Wrong _____" Lifetime movie about dental assistant that has been wrongly accused of murder entitled "The Wrong Woman".Well,after being into a lot of "The Wrong _____" movies this weekend that could probably be classified as average and mediocre while this review was written,I finally found something that I would probably consider a notch above mediocre in the sense that it was able to provide excitement in its plot twists and common story lines.Ellen Plainview is a dental assistant at a dental office that has been secretly taking pole dancing lessons at night to bring added joy and sensuality to her sex life with her husband Mike,who also works as a cop.Suddenly one day,two detectives arrested Ellen for the case of an attempted murder of Faye Walker.Things begin to look overwhelming as she starts getting represented by a seemingly incompetent lawyer and the amount of evidence goes against her.In the end,she decided to defend herself being a Law Student after her lawyer decided to leave her and decided to prove her innocence to the court and the viewers as well.The movie is basically the standard "The Wrong _____" having the protagonist being against a villain who is trying to put a trainwreck on her life;the least suspected person being the villain; and protagonist trying to put an end to the terror the villain is putting in her life. But what makes it a notch above the standard Lifetime movie and the "The Wrong _____"-type movies is the fact that we got involved in an interesting court room drama.The court room drama was good enough to be entertaining especially with Ellen representing herself as a lawyer.Danica McKellar did well in terms of performance in proving her innocence during the court room scenes.She made them truly entertaining despite being predictable or the viewer knowing that she will get the "Not Guilty" verdict in the end.She played Ellen with passion especially being her own lawyer.No wonder there was a sequel made for it entitled "Mommy,I Did Not Do It" which I will review later.

Awful premise, awful character interaction and what is up with the over the top glam makeup on housewife Danica? Don't waste your time. Just the police procedure alone was stupid as well as the ridiculous defender. Husband was a total puke and she cries when he leaves her. She should have said good riddance.

Lemme see... does "lame" even in all CAPS begin to describe how bad this movie is? Character development? No. Plot line? No. Logical transition? No. Direction? No. Decidedly no. Production value? No. There was absolutely no ROI in that arena. Can't believe anyone put up the loot to produce this.At no time in the scripting is the "heroine" (quelle joke) Mirandized. Nothing remarkably stunning is made of the photographic evidence found in the trunk when the car has been in impound since the defendant was arrested (did I mention without being mirandized?). I can't believe Fred Dryer, a former police officer himself, could have agreed to appear in this LAME movie with such shoddy plot development, poor investigative protocols and NO MIRANDIZING of the defendant. Suspects aren't presented to the victim in this fashion. How could you Fred? Really? Hunter would be so disappointed.And they wrap it all up with the real culprit knocked out by an oxygen cylinder to the head, laid out cold on the hospital supply room floor and no logical conclusion to the scene or the entire movie, perhaps showing the real culprit being arrested, mirandized and dragged away screaming obscenities, vowing vengeance forever? No, we get the heroine walking away with her best model's runway gait, camera focused firmly on a shot of her calves and her "two cats fighting in a sack" posterior. Yeah. That's important plot development.No, let's transition this with a sudden cut to a scene of the heroine playing a LAME tennis lesson with the lame daughter and cutesy public defender. UGH what a lame movie. Did I mention the only thing this LAME movie achieved was a very successfully executed version of a LAME ripoff of Hitchcock's "The Wrong Man"? I am sure Hitch rolled over in his grave, groaning at the insult. Don't waste your time on this incredibly awful movie.

This movie was extremely disappointing. Danica McKellar's performance was weak and annoying. Her voice was not strong, even before she was charged with a crime. Even in the supposed every day life she seemed weak and unsure. That made it difficult to watch from the start. She was poorly cast. Even had the character been played and someone unsure of themselves, the actor should have a stronger voice. There was no righteous indignation, something that would generally been seen in a suspect making McKellar, as the main character, poorly cast.I would not recommend this movie under any condition. We couldn't watch it through to the end because of the poor unbelievable script and the poor acting. This is one of the worst movies we have seen in ages. The poorly written script, poorly cast characters, poor acting coupled with very weak performances along with unbelievable character behavior makes this the dud of the year. There are a lot of good movies out there. Don't waste your time with this.