The Age of Commercialism

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Cyberstalker also known as Offline is a made for cable Lifetime television film starring Mischa Barton who plays Aidan whose parents were murdered 13 years earlier. The killer was never caught which still taxes the detective in charge. Now she spends time as a reclusive artist but it seems the cyberstalker is back to terrorise her.The film is low budget, quickly shot, formulaic but rather watchable if you switch your brain offline. The culprit could only be the characters we have been introduced to which could be the detective, her new boyfriend, the Svengali gallery owner or the wheelchair bound computer expert newly employed by the police.I reckon there is no need for Columbo or Sherlock to solve this whodunit. There is plenty of silliness as our cyberstalker can hack into and control traffic lights for example. Still Lifetime know which audience to aim their films at, its female friendly with enough thrills to keep you mildly entertained.

This film was one of the worst I have ever seen. Felt like a made for TV low budget poorly acted film. Honestly I kept watching it because it was like a train wreck. It was like they had gone to a film school and said, now we have a really poor idea for a film, do you want to act in it for free and make a film so terrible you will be embarrassed to put it on your cv, and they all said yes. I would be beyond mortified if I had been a part of that film. Worst of all is that you never find out how/why the stalker started stalking her in the first place. Truly truly terrible. Not even sure what to write now to fill in how much I didn't like this film. For me it was right down there with Blair Witch Project.

This is a terrible movie. I watch a lot of movies and this one has no real life base.It's one thing to try and scare people into being careful, but it's another to totally shield the audience from reality.The cinematography is totally horrible. I am still not sure what Lifetime Channel had hoped to achieve form this movie.Even the leading actress is working half way - - at no point do we see her authentic self.Was it the company? The production? or the writers?I have no clue. But I feel like I want my dollar back from red-box (it was that bad).

(I'm not sure this is a spoiler but don't want to take chances.)***************Nothing in this movie makes sense. The stalker breaks in by decoding the burglar alarm, lies down in the girl's bed, drops a cell phone that somehow clues the parents (with a few numbers) that the alarm system has been breached. He then emerges to kill the girl's parents and in a flash he's gone.Next we go to a scene 13 years later where a detective is still struggling to solve what would have been a very cold case. And the home invader, well, he's still at it.Did the script writer expect us to believe that a cell phone app could turn a series of deadbolt locks at the apartment of a tech-phobe who wouldn't get near anything related to electronics? Yes, we're talking plain old brass deadbolt locks. Step right up suckers. See him turn them from the outside using a cell phone! And, yes, he manages murder the woman's only friend (her therapist) by messing with the walk light at a busy intersection. Another cell phone app, it seems. You'd think the lead character would have reacted with some sadness. Well, don't expect logic here.It took at least a month to film this piece of pure rubbish. How do I know? The lead actress's hair is blonde to the roots in some scenes and has a one-centimeter outgrowth of untreated hair in others. That takes a month.A budget of under $2 million is low for movies, I know. But it should be enough for an $8 bottle of hair dye. Never mind. Not worth it.Worst TV movie I've seen outside the intentionally-bad SciFi channel stuff. Ghastly awful.