Silent Hours

Friends of mine watched this and loved it. I watched it on their recommendation just to be polite. I wanted to turn it off after the first sex scene because I felt like this was a B movie using * actors to flesh it out, no pun intended. The acting is appalling. The script is laughable. You know that when the lead actor touches blood on a dead body and then wipes it all over the front of his sweater things are only going to get worse... And they did. As others here have mentioned it is so old fashioned. I mean I hate all these WOKE/PC for the sake of it movies but this is offensive. Utter amateur night dross. And now I have to go away and think of a way of telling me friends what I thought about this turkey without hurting their feelings!

For those who have reported about the length of this TV movie, this was a TV series of 3 episodes first shown in 2017, turned into one movie. Actually, I think that it works better as three separate episodes. And, you will not guess the ending.

This movie is not very good and the main character is an intensely unlikeable, misogynistic sex pest with no redeeming qualities to balance it out. The sex scenes were truly dreadful and painful to endure. Watching this film made me angry, but I persevered until the bitter end. I'm nothing if not tenacious.

This story drags on for way too long - viewers will have guessed 'whodunit' way before the end (about an hour of unnecessary play time there) . The acting is mediocre and some of the conversations are not at all believable. A number of mutilated bodies and sex scenes try to compensate for the rest.

Poor dialogue, ropey acting and unbelievable sex scenes but the puzzle kept me intrigued despite the fact that the direction and script was so poor. Some aspects were clunky, especially the use of a therapist to provide context.

Other reviewers talk about all the graphic sex scenes in the movie. The reality is disappointing. Despite the protagonist being a hit with all the ladies, he only knows how to fornicate with them in doggy. And you don't get to see very much anyway. Half a dozen heavy thrusts with each one and our hero is spent, collapsing face first onto the bed.

For a * film, this has a relatively coherent storyline. A supposedly suave private detective possesses an inexplicable ability to cause women to become instantly 'in heat' if he so much as looks at them. Are we to believe he's as intriguing, captivating, and dangerous as James Bond? Actually, he looks more like the guy who tiled my bathroom. But in between all the sausage-hiding, there is a decent story. Just be prepared to dig deep for patience to find it.

If you have 2 1/2 hours for a who done it flick, I would recommend this movie. It is not a fast pace movie, nor are there any big explosions etc. Keeps you guessing..... you gotta pay attention though. There are a number of hot & heavy sex scenes, I would say its a R rated movie. But it describes it as a TV movie... surely not here in the USA. I give it a 6-6.5 stars.

Set in the early 2000s, but worthy of a misogynistic 70s US TV movie; relentless soft * (all the women desperate to have rough sex with him, why? ) extreme violence to women and at least an hour too long. Why some excellent British actors were involved is utterly mistifying. The denouement was equally bizarre, the final scene being a wtf?? Moment. Don't watch it to see if it's as awful as the reviews claim, it is.