The Girl in the Pool

I'm going to give away any spoilers. All I will say is, is the movie isn't perfect. Now with that said ppl will give something as bad as jungle cruise a 9-10 because it's fun. Then give a movie like this a 1? You gotta then ask yourself if you enjoyed the movie and rate it on that. I personally don't understand how people rate movies anymore? Is it because their favorite actor is in it so they don't want to be critical of their favorite actor? It's ok to like and not like a movie. Reading some reviews and ppl saying that they don't like old Freddie is ridiculous. He had a lot of health issues.

So... Freddie Jnr looks like an old scrotem who still hasn't found a good acting school. Monica Portter left acting for a reason. Her hair extensions were almost it's own bad character. So the story. Wow wee what a total waste of time. Poor acting, lame script. Kevin Pollock whom I normally enjoy was just uninvolved in the story. 2demrional characters whom I just don't care about in the first 30 minutes and I still had another 60 minutes to go. And so I persued and boy oh boy ...do it deliver on boredom. I honestly don't know how I survived to the end. End of the day id rather drink pool water than this garbage.

Clearly, this movie was not intended to be a five star movie that was going to win an Oscar, it's just a good fun, psychological thriller. The only reason I'm giving this movie a seven and not a four, is because I personally like Freddie Prinze Junior. He is a super nice guy, but the acting was not so great. In fact, the acting was bad by everybody, except for their son, and may be a little bit by the daughter and Monica Potter and Kevin Pollak. I think it would've been better with just brand new actors who were actually good. I really like the cinematography, so the whole look of the movie was perfect. Whoever wrote this movie just did not do a great job. You had me up until like 75% through and then the last 25% was just unusual, and not unusual in a great way. It just seem like the boss said hurry up and finish an ending, and this is what they came up with. Maybe the acting would've been better if they would've been given a better script. Freddie Prinze Junior just doesn't quite have the acting down, and it needs to be a little bit more natural, but in his defense, these type of lifetime movies don't usually have primo acting. It's almost like a soap opera mixed with a suspense thriller. Kind of like back in the 1940s and 1950s when they had to do everything over the top. So I don't know who to blame the actors or the script But at the end of the day I could watch movies like this all the time, because they're entertaining, and I like the thriller aspect of it, it was kind of juicy, but a little bit light on the acting in the plot, but otherwise, really enjoyable. That guy who played the son, perhaps has a future. People need to be a little bit more relaxed, the over the top acting just doesn't seem authentic.

When I saw the trailer I knew this movie was going to be fast paced and full of suspense, dread and mystery so I rented it and I am so glad I did. The trailer made the movie seem to obvious such as we already know what happend and probably what's going to happen so why bother? However, that wasn't the case at all. As soon as the movie came on and it didn't begin where I assumed it would, I thought to myself, that's smart. The twist comes towards the beginning and it's only a twist if you've seen the trailer. What I enjoyed about it the most and why I gave it 9 starts out of 10 is because of the suspense watching him trying not to get caught with a dead body and guests all over the premises. He can't focus on his birthday which adds another layer to the uncomfortableness (in a good way) we feel for his character because everyone can see something's not right with him and he knows this but he can't snap out of his sense of dread of being caught. He's constantly going around trying to prevent guests from finding the dead body. He suspects that someone might already know what happened so it makes everyone look suspicious. I figured out what the second twist would be but I definitely didn't have any evidence to prove it, I just know movies. But I wasn't disappointed because technically it wasn't obvious and the way everything transpired towards the end isn't what I was expecting. I felt like I was watching something really different from all the other movies that was exciting with a knot in your stomach. Now, why I didn't give it 10 stars is because of the ridiculously stupid things that the characters did that we're so unbelievable. This isn't a spoiler but why are you having an affair in the daylight on your property that you share with your wife and kids? One of whom you were expecting home soon. Anyone could have saw them. There are some other things too that made me go, really? That's so stupid but hey maybe some people really do behave this way in real life. Actually I'm quite sure they do but it's different watching it in a movie. But other than the stupid choices that were made, the whole movie was fast paced, exciting, dreadful (in a good way), suspenseful, dramatic and full of mystery which was a pleasant surprise that I wasn't expecting going into it. Also, I don't like to say this because I like Freddie Prinze Jr but his acting is a bit off. I mean he can act and I totally believed him but the sound of his voice doesn't match the look on his face. It sounds almost corny. Y'all remember that line from "I know what you did last summer" right? His character said "I got a letter!". It was so awkward the way his voice sounded and yeah it's like that throughout this movie too. But it was fine because I like him and I know that's just how his voice sounds. He definitely made me feel for what he was going through. He had that dread look on point. The father in law was a funny surprise. His personality made things more fun. So, just know these characters do very stupid things especially the main one but if you can overlook that and just get into the movie from the main character's perspective then you'll have a really good time like I did.

I usually like this type of suspenseful drama but this was by far one of the worst movies I have ever watched! I actually paid $4.99 to view it or I would have turned it off at the start. The acting is awful, the plot is ridiculous and the directing is even worse. I don't understand how anyone could have liked this. The premise being that a man's mistress comes to his home for his birthday. No one is home so he decides to do things with her out by the pool - what??? The storyline is completely ridiculous and the further you watch the worse it gets. Wh can't American producers make movies and show like the British.

I love me some Monica Potter, and I'm not exactly an enthusiastic fan of the whole "flashback" trope - just tell the story (although I completely understood the decision to do so). And I could not believe the stress/momentum this movie built us all up to - only to so disappointingly have it fall so FLAT at the end. So much for the "good plan" the son was rooting for, which was OBVIOUSLY meant to save HIS immature skin (but sometimes we parents think and do things we'd never even HEARD of prior to the spontaneous life-altering event that suddenly renders us SUPERHUMAN in terms of action for our child(ren). They should've gone with the ending we all expected - - frame the hubbby BEFORE he wakes up on your bedroom floor, memory of how he got there FULLY INTACT - and make it stick. Not fantastic to say the least. And it had SO MUCH potential with that cast and a great storyline/plot.

Forget the pretentious reviewers and raters! For the average person who just wants to have fun watching a good movie, this should be on the list of movies to watch. This is a very entertaining movie. Is it going to win an Oscar? Absolutely NOT! It's a comedy / drama / thriller / cat and mouse...all in one. It's a multi-genre movie that's a bit tongue - in - cheek, but absolutely worth the watch! There's the set-up, the plot, some hilarity thrown in there... I found it to be one of the more entertaining movies I've seen recently. Not the best!!! But it's actually good! I'm going to recommend it to some of my movie buff friends. There's a little bit of everything for ALL movie lovers. This would definitely be a fun date movie for both guys and gals from teens to mature adults. I loved it!

This was actually a really good suspenseful thriller. I was on the edge of my seat the entire movie. Watching the trailer you got exactly what you saw with a little twist at the end. I do agree the end felt rushed and I had a few unanswered questions. The coworkers were annoying as well but other than that the three vets killed it in these roles. They were very believable and I loved the way Monica Potter spoke and was in charge. This was a great little warm up for Freddie's return for IKWYDLS. I loved this film and thought it was something different. You couldn't predict what was going to happen next which I loved. My only real dislike was the end felt rushed they could've made it an extra 10 mins to answer some of the questions I still have.

I spent money to see this..... and spent an hour and a half of my life to see a very poor movie. I don't post a lot of reviews but felt I needed to warn others on this movie. I wish I had read the reviews on here before I paid to watch it. It started out ok and I thought this was going to be a good thriller; but then it just went downhill from one stupid scene to the next. At the party, grown men acting like teenagers; very dumb. It kept getting more ridiculous as the movie went on. This is one of those movies that they must have all of a sudden decided they needed to end due to budget costs and without rhyme or reason.... it ended with a very weird ending. There are so many loose ends at the end. Do not waste your time on this one.

This is my first review here. I watch a lot of movies and especially like smaller films. I saw this and thought I'd give it a try. It was billed as a drama suspense movie, but I found it rather entertaining in a dark comedy kind of way. Freddie Prinze Jr.'s character, Thomas, finds his mistress dead in his backyard pool. Not knowing how it happened, he stuffs her corpse in a storage container. Hours later, his wife throws him a surprise birthday party. Tom attempts to put on a happy face but fails miserably. I liked that this movie wasn't too long and never found myself bored. There were a couple of parts that I found hard to believe, but it didn't matter to me because I never took the film too seriously.