Simply A Masterpiece

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

This is a very predictable and slightly bland horror film. It is not amazingly gory but it does have some violence. You can predict exactly where this is going long before it happens. I found it quite easy going to watch and the climax was suitably exciting to make it feel like it was worthwhile watching. There is nothing that you can take away from this film except the happy knowledge that he survives and there is a sequel. This takes itself seriously and there is no knowing comedy about the slightly tacky setup. There are better films than this but the relative blandness works in its favour giving you a slow ride to oblivion on the psychotic stepfather's path to ultimate annihilation.

I saw it on lifetime and thought it was a Lifetime original. That's really all you need to know.On the plus side, my boyfriend loved it because Amber Heard spends the movie in a bikini. So it's got that going for it I guess. So, 1/10 for quality, 7/10 for getting your boyfriend to shut up while you drink wine and watch bad movies.

A very average thriller that it's very entertaining. Too predictable, unexciting, and banal. No tension, no suspense.Whoever picked out the cast, is clearly not suitable to pick out actors for movies, and should be fired immediately. All wrong. The Mum's plastic nose was very distracting. And the girlfriend? Why was she even necessary? Her stumbling around half-naked in a tiny bikini for most of the movie, without actually adding anything to the story, served no purpose whatsoever. People watch thrillers for suspense; not to see a swimsuit model. The actor playing the troubled son was probably the most miscast actor here. It is hard to imagine someone less convincing than him in this role. The main character - the stepfather - was also miscast. This guy doesn't have what it takes to pass for a psychopath. I wasn't convinced by his acting or intimidated by his character for a second. In a word: an exceptionally lousily-cast movie.Don't even get me started on character development. There was none.The story sounded intriguing enough... but only in theory. It is sad how they took a promising plot and made it into something as flat and boring as this movie turned out to be.Stale, suspense-less, predictable, badly-executed wannabe thriller (read: snorefest). Basically, very average. To say the least. Wouldn't recommend.

I wasn't as big a fan of the original "The Stepfather" movie as some people are, but it sure looks better to me after watching this remake. The cast does try hard, but they can't overcome the fact that there is not much here. The director's main ambition, instead of trying to generate suspense and jolts, seems to be to make the movie look pretty. The movie looks too polished and slick; the original movie used its low budget to add some serious grit. But the real problem with this movie is that it is too slow and by the numbers. You'll be able to guess ever so-called plot turn before it actually happens. There's no suspense as a result, which may explain why the climax is set during a violent rainstorm, to try and generate atmosphere. It doesn't work, and neither does the rest of the movie.