Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

The acting in this movie is really good.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Honestly, Lifetime has a habit of making after-school-specials unintentionally funny. I just watched this movie for the first time with some girlfriends, and this is by far the dumbest/funniest Lifetime movie ever made.. Followed by the movie ' Born Bad '. I can't even begin to explain the movie without laughing hysterically. Every other person I was watching it with took it too seriously, all of the 'Omg'(s) and 'Who does that'(s); hence why it came off as a hilarious comedy to me.-MAJOR SPOILER ALERT- A sixteen year old Justin Peterson makes all-state at his high school swim team and suddenly goes from the kid no one gave a crap about, to cool enough for the school- ditching party-goers and a few football jocks to want to have him in their clique. He ends up getting invited to one of the guy's parties and brings along his religious girlfriend, Amy, to see people at the party getting hopped up on beer (probably lite) and albeit, SOFTCORE porn. Girls and guys watching it. Who has parties like that? Justin seems to fancy girls strutting in front of the camera for minutes twisting the laces of their corsets. Then he takes a peek at Monica, the school slut whom has a site of her own where she strips and does 'naughty' things in front of her webcam, is sitting across the way, making goo-goo eyes at him. Of course Justin stares at her for a moment and then is being pulled away from the party by his girlfriend. Naturally the camera then shoots back to Monica whom has already looked away, giving her boytoy, Dooly, the impression that virgin little Justin's trying to jump on his girl. On Justin and Amy's walk home, she explains to him that she wants their first time with each other to be special. However, Justin feels they should just do it and get it over with. That same night he gets sent a couple of links to some shitty porn sites from Timmy, one of the jocks. From then on, he begins his unhealthy addiction of porn and, what Lifetime substituted for masturbation, binge drinking energy drinks.First, can someone please tell me why a sixteen year old boy would watch any kind of promiscuous videos with his door open? And his mom... If she was so concerned for son watching porn, why the hell wouldn't she confront him on the spot? Instead, she rushes to her bedroom and wakes her husband (at 1:09 in the morning) to say their 16-year-old son is looking at porn and asks if they should have a talk with him. This part, I found myself dead from laughing. The father is such a dweeb, he gives such an answer as " About what? Naked women? ". When the mother asks if he talked to Justin, his first reply is " I told him there's more to life than big boobs ". Justin's life then goes on a downward spiral as he's staying up super late on nights before his swim meets, even watching porn on his girlfriend's PDA and drinking other caffeinated beverages during a swim tournament, that he came in fourth place at. He even shows some footage to his much younger brother, Alex, whom soon mimics his brother's porn addiction. The young brother is even lame enough to take a disc burned with footage of pornos labeled " Virgin Vaginas ". --And gotta love the fake Lincoln Park song in the movie too. His mom attempts to completely block porn sites from her sons and eventually even takes away Justin's computer, he still manages to get his fix by going to cafés with internet access and blowing off his girlfriend to hang out with Monica.Once Justin loses all access to the Internet when his mother finally gets a smart idea to restrict him from leaving the house, he goes to Amy's for a study date and tries to get her to give it up, pinning her down, trying to take off her clothes. He creates all hell for himself and his parents as they receive notice that his grades are slipping and he's been suspended from his swim team after an outburst directed at his coach and teammates, banned from using the school computers for hacking into the facility's firewall- all to watch grown women twirl around in their bra and panties. To make matters worse, he starts to buy more shitty Internet porn using his mom's credit cards. (The hell was she thinking leaving her wallet by the family room computer all night anyway?) Justin ditches class to meet up with skanky Monica at her house and discovers she has sick fantasies and realizes she's too experienced for him. When Justin rejects her, she literally scares and rushes him out of her house in a psychotic way. Cue to the scene when she deliberately bashes her head against her bathroom counter. The same afternoon, Justin's parents arrive home and get a call from one of their credit card companies about suspicious activity.. I knew this part wasn't intended to be funny.. Just the entire family argument was so terribly acted, I had to bury my face into my pillow to laugh shamelessly. His parents, after an awkwardly silent dinner session, allow him to go and make amends with Amy. Afterward, Justin practically gets kidnapped by the jocks from school, who believe he's physically assaulted Monica. Guess you can safely guess that girl has major issues with rejection that she had to go tell Dooly and his friends that bullshit lie. They beat him senseless and the movie ends with an bruised up Justin jumping into the school swimming pool, and starts reminiscing good times in his life. A cliffhanger as usual. The funniest line in this movie was " I SAID I WAS LOOKING AT PORNOGRAPHY! ".Thanks a heap, Lifetime.

So my journey to writing this review has been long. Several months ago I walked in on my 14 y/o son and his best friend jerking off to porn. AWKWARD. I never limited my son's media access, we have cable, internet, and I figured if he wants to watch porn he'll find a way since he's the only one in the house who knows how to work that magic remote control, unlike me.So I started doing my Dad investigation on what is proper control and parenting wrt internet porn. In my teens it was Cinemax and HBO after 2am and my friends and I would stay up late to watch. I'm not a prude. Then I come across this flick.What garbage. If this is supposed to help parents with horny teenage boys, then it is a major fail.The whole writing is a mess. First of all you have your typical normal horny kid who discovers chat rooms and sites on the net. He watches them religiously in his bedroom, WITH THE DOOR OPEN. So one night Mom walks past his door, sees the Red Bull and she KNOWS what that means, and runs to her husband, wakes him up, and freaks out that he's looking at naked women on the net. She cries "Is that normal?". Oh god. I'm already losing my focus on this movie, because it is so out of normal human behavior.Then we begin the descent into the world of teenage porn addiction, or something like that. The boy is an all-state swimmer and right before a race, just to drive home the severity of his porn addiction, he's watching porn on his girlfriend's Iphone. I was a swimmer, and BELIEVE me, when I was a few minutes from getting up on the blocks in a tiny speedo in front of everyone, porn was the last thing on my mind. So unrealistic.Also, there are only two types of young women in this film: The Madonna and the Whore. No in between. No wonder this kid was struggling.This is just a terrible movie, and no parent should watch this for help. I loved Kelly Lynch doing a PSA at the end, this was the actress I fapped to as a 14 y/o in Blue Velvet who was naked the entire time.The message boards on this flick are hilarious. Speaking as a normal guy who looked at his fair share of naked women and men as a teen, porn is not BAD. I'd rather my kid fap four times a day, then become sexually active and get someone pregnant. He's now fifteen, and the number one rule of the house is: DO NOT GET A GIRL PREGNANT. It's the only rule, as far as I'm concerned, but I'm still stressing good grades and excellence in all other areas.Do not watch this as a concerned parent. It's only good for a RW chicken-little sky-is-falling dramatica. It could be humorous, except it wasn't the intention.

Well one thing is for sure: to this movie, porn is the most evil thing in the universe. More evil than Hitler.Looking at a single nak.... well actually, they aren't even naked in the photos, so it isn't porn in the first place. But a single look at a scantily clad woman is enough to SERIOUSLY PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARM YOUR CHILD and HE WILL BECOME A STARK RAVING SEX ADDICTED PSYCHOPATH... AND it will destroy your family too... and he will go on to cause world war 3.... and he will end up causing the human race extinction!!! oooOOOOOooooo... Give me a break.What's funny is the f***ed up hypocrisy with the parents. The parents allow both their sons to play GTA, a game which requires extreme violence to play. Stealing cars, blowing people up, spraying crowds with a minigun, robbing stores, etc... But god forbid they see something NATURAL, such as a woman's figure (sense remember, in the movie, it's not actually porn), they might get an ADDICTION and go insane!!!!! But GTA, nah they can handle that, nothing wrong with it at all. Go kill some more tourists little Timmy, but don't you dare go and do anything natural! And the fact that he's "addicted" to it... Heh, if you can get addicted to that, you might as well be addicted to anything: candy, sports, television, pogo sticks, yodeling, FARMVILLE, whatever.I wish I could laugh at all this, but I know people hold those same viewpoints. It never made any sense to me when I was his age, and it still doesn't as an adult. Now, I'm not encouraging anyone to break the law, but my point is that it's just about as ass backwards and stupid as you could get.I also think it's funny how nobody knows how to use computers. At all. No one. I'm surprised the parents weren't beating the keyboard with their head shouting, "DUUUURRRRRRRRR" at that scene with the popups. Honestly, my grandmother knows how to use computers better. This whole movie is a joke. In fact, I think I'm going to go hit my head with a brick for a while to try and dislodge the stupid implanted by this movie..

It is incredible that something like this has been made in the 21st century. Firstly, the awful title initially sounds like some porn film. Think about it! Secondly, the script is so clichéd, clumsy and moralistic as to have absolutely no artistic merit whatsoever. Thirdly, the acting is wooden and terribly performed. Poor Kelly Lynch. Hard to believe how great she was in Drugstore Cowboy (1989).I won't even bother going on about the actual plot. The creators of this have offered no original artistic voice, no real analysis of addiction, no depth to their characters and, well, no point. It smacks of cynical opportunistic filler between commercials.If anything in this film disturbs you, it's the waste of talent, time and money.Horrific stuff, really. All connected with it ought to be ashamed. But I bet they sleep like babies.