Killer Mom (2017) Reviews

• Super villianess

  geoffox-766-4184672017-04-27

  The minute I saw her appear on screen I hated her. She's that good. Of course, you can't wait for her demise but it is fun watching her do her dirty work. And she looks like the evil Queen in Disney's Snow White. Extreme make-up although she must take it off sometime. The movie is pretty predictable. You sort of know who will be knocked off from the beginning. You can see it coming. Most of the actors did okay, but the leading lady was fantastic. She never missed a beat to show her evil side and her phony side. I did think the little girl was a bit sickening. Sort of the whining type. I did like the girl who played her grown up sister. Feisty dame and good in the role. Again, LMN makes the males look like idiots and behind the ball when it comes to smarts.

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• An Inheritance Worth Killing For

  Desertman842017-05-03

  After watching Arianne Zucker and Brando Eaton in a "Killer _____"- type movie known as "Killer Assistant",I get to see another one starring Karen Cliché, Kirby Bliss Blanton and Maddy Martin in another of this type movie entitled 'Killer Mom".This movie is about a mother who intends to kill for her daughter's inheritance. Fourteen year old Allison Timmons is going to inherit $40 million soon after her father dies in a plane crash just recently and her mother died two year ago.Things get complicated when Allison gets to know that her mother doesn't happen to be her real mother and realize that she just happens to be a result of an affair that her father had years before.Unexpectedly,her real mother Jessica enters the picture and tries to make up for the many years she has not become part of her life.Unknowingly,Jessica has not-so-good intentions and tries to eliminate everybody that becomes an obstacle between her and her daughter's $40 million inheritance.Meanwhile,Allison's half-sister Sydni sees all of these and plans to stop Jessica before it is too late. Regular viewers would definitely be used to these types of stories about nefarious family members who are up to no good and who are going after for a millions worth of inheritance in many TV movies.In this "Killer_____"-type movie "Killer Mom",it is obvious that the real mother is the one who is up to no good.But in spite of this clichéd and predictable story as well as the weak conclusion wherein characters particularly Allison and Jessica had immediate character transformations to make the story end and having Syndi - a non- police character - being able to figure all out together with some funny impatient members of Jessica's criminal team, it was evident that it had some moments of entertainment.Karen Cliché did well as a in playing the villain Jessica.She had some subtlety and was believable in playing a caring mother and villain at the same time. Maddy Martin was also worth mentioning as Allison.Her lack of acting experience was not seen throughout the television movie.Overall,it would still be a nice TV movie despite the familiar story being presented.

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• ****

  edwagreen2017-04-29

  Terrific thriller with two sisters losing their parents in 2 years and the younger one, who thought she was adopted, finds out that her real mother had a brief affair with the father and has now returned. The mother, Jessica, is one of the most diabolical characters I've met in a long time. Her scheme to gain control of the vast inheritance left to the younger daughter leads her to all sorts of mayhem, especially getting rid of people who are in the way of her ultimate goal. Wait until you find out that the father's death in a plane crash wasn't an accident. The older sister-wise but rebellious realizes that something is amiss so Jessica has drugs planted in her car to get her out of the way. A wonderful thriller, greed was never better.

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• Killer Mom - the ultimate narcissist who will stop at nothing to get what she wants

  jrv19642018-04-16

  I watched this mad for T.V movie from Lifetime and was impressed with it's entertainment value. Karen Cliche, who plays Jessica the estranged mother, is very attractive but is hell bent on getting hold of her daughter Allison's multi million dollar inheritance is one of the worst twisted narcissists and evil villains I have seen in a film. Cold, conniving and calculating she manipulates people and gets rid of those that stand in her way and what she wants in the true style of a dangerous malignant narcissist and Jessica soon becomes a character you love to hate. Sydni, played by actress Kirby Bliss Blanton, is the half sister of Allison is very street smart and does not trust Jessica from the outset and the movie becomes a showdown between her and Jessica in a battle of wits with plot twists and turns. Yes the movie is an age old story of people motivated by greed and who will do anything to get it but is a well played,. enjoyable thriller, not a bad effort for a t.v movie. Watching Jessica plan her schemes and the cold way she executes it, but at the same time putting on a pretend sweet side to her daughter Alison, is sickening but very convincingly played by Karen Cliche, put it this way I would not like to meet a person like 'Jessica" in a dark alley and be on her 'get rid off list". Some may say this is a second rate movie with a story that has been re-hashed many times over, but it is done in the modern way and is a good 2 hours worth of entertainment, rate it a 7 out 10. Don't under estimate a conniving, evil woman, they can be worse than bad guys!

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• Well paced well written thriller

  phd_travel2017-08-29

  A woman who has lost her money goes after the daughter she gave up for adoption to a wealthy man. The story is quite logical so it's actually quite exciting. Although she has ulterior motives you kind of want them to get together happily so it's quite involving. Also there aren't some of the typical cheap scare tactics and too many killings that plague some Lifetime thrillers. Only thing the ending is a little formula - could have been more clever. But 90% of this movie is good so it's worth a watch.

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