Mother's Instinct

[VoR]

Well this was an enjoyable slice of campy nonsense.



It felt like a very knowing tribute to classic early 90s potboilers like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, but played admirably straight for the first two thirds.

It really ticked all the boxes - terrible child actors, distractingly ropey driving scenes, and a descent into complete ludicrousness in the final act.

Certainly no masterpiece, but for a 90 minute slice of silliness I was thoroughly entertained. Worth the price of admission for some of Anne Hathaway's ensembles ALONE, frankly.

 

[Ellie]

Great gowns. Beautiful gowns.

I too was hoping for a The Hand That Rocks The Cradle style showdown. It kind of let me down in the end.

 

[Jacques]

This was a wild ride.

The last movie that I saw prior to this was "Anatomy of a Fall" a couple of weeks earlier, and I loved that this was the second movie I was watching in a row that was about the aftermath of someone falling to their death from a height.

 

[Kratz]

I am very excited to see this

 

[Suomi]

Well, this was just utter nonsense wasn’t it?

Spoiler

Things got so silly that I wondered whether it might have merited an extra twenty minutes of Anne Hathaway going around indiscriminately killing people.

No, overall I’m glad that evil won for a change - Anne put in the werk mama sweetie and she deserved that RuPeter badge way more than that pathetic blonde woman.

A solid 7 - it needed to go full blown silly for it to get any higher. I’m surprised it got made.

 

[Suomi]

Spoiler

also where can you buy chloroform

 

[Kratz]

Well this was absolutely everything I wanted it to be

 

[Kratz]

And OMG the driving scenes!

 

[Art Decade]

 

[Suedehead]

Finally watched this. What trash. I loved it naturally

 

[Kratz]

Now the Number 1 film on Netflix!

*drives erratically*

 

[PercyPig]

Boring AF