YouHeart
I gave it a 7.5 out of 10
Platicsco
Good story, Not enough for a whole film
Grimossfer
Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%
Fairaher
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
tommyboy938
My girlfriend has got me into Nora Roberts / Lifetime movies, and they're a lot of fun in the way that bad horror or action is.Boiled down, this is the story of a famous violinist Caroline returning to small town Mississippi and falling for millionaire playboy, Tucker Longstreet. Sounds pretty straightforward, but the thing that made this movie for me were the red flags on Tucker as romantic lead and how Caroline just rolls with it. I might have these a bit out of sequence, but here goes (SPOLIERS):Red flag 1: Tucker almost causes a near fatal collision with Caroline.Red flag 2: Caroline finds out one of Tucker Longstreet's ex-girlfriends has been murdered.Red flag 2: Caroline finds Tucker alone on her property and he acts weird to her. Red flag 3: Caroline finds the body of Tucker's other and most recent girlfriend on HER property. Red flag 4: She's playing a violin solo in her house,Tucker walks in unannounced and starts clapping, she turns around startled. The first thing he says isn't "Hello" or "Sorry for startling you". He says: "I didn't kill those women."Red flag 5: Immediately after this, someone starts shooting at them in HER house.Red flag 6: The next day, Tucker crashes his car into her property and destroys her gateRed flag 7: Tucker then hires the son of the guy who tried to kill them to do... jobs around the house?It keeps going. Accents drop in and out. Lines are delivered horribly. But Carnal Innocence is never boring. Oh yeah, the name of the small town is Innocence. Lol.Also, if you drink every time somebody says TUCKER LONGSTREET's full name, I promise you'll have a very toasty afternoon.
SnoopyStyle
A woman is found dead in the river near the small town of Innocence, Mississippi. Famed violinist Caroline Waverly (Gabrielle Anwar) returns to her late grandmother's home to escape problems. She hasn't been back since 9 years old. Tucker Longstreet (Colin Egglesfield) is the local playboy from the rich family in town. Josie (Jud Tylor) is his sister, Dwayne is his screw-up brother, and Della Duncan (Shirley Jones) is his longtime nanny. Edda Lou Hatinger believes Tucker is marrying her and she makes a scene at the diner when he rejects her. The killer lures her out to the river and kills her. Sheriff Burke investigates with newly arrived FBI Agent Matthew Burns. Both women were Tucker's exes and he's the prime suspect. Edda Lou's father Austin is arrested after shooting at Tucker.Romance writer Nora Roberts moves towards the crime drama in this one. I'm not a fan and I couldn't claim to know her writing. As crime drama, this is not good. Caroline shows no sign that Tucker could possibly be the killer. In fact, it's the opposite and the tension is all gone. Why would Austin come after Caroline instead of Tucker? The characters don't always make sense. This is too desperate to make it a romance which only makes it a bad romance. The production is weaker TV level. The actors are mostly second tier. By the second half, the story and the killer's identity stops mattering.
rightwingisevil
i rarely encountered a movie, i mean, well, a B movie, could be so bad like this one. the screenplay is so bad, the dialog, holly molly, the worst, the acting....eh....since the dialog is so bad that definitely affected the actors to perform unnaturally bad, and truly that everybody acted so badly that almost became an eye sore to watch. if there's a director, then this guy should consider changing his occupation since there's definitely no future at all for him to make a living in movie industry. this a very pretentious and stupid to the extreme A movie (since it's worse than a B movie), "A" abbreviated as "Avoid", so avoid it as best as you could. there's nothing to be reviewed since it deserves not to be reviewed. a famous female violinist? a southern township full of retarded morons and gossipy folks? and worst of all, a serial killer in a small town kept murdering town folks? worst of the worst, the serial killer might tie up with the homecoming violinist? what a stupid scenario and plot? show me some brain, will you? i rest my case.
blondehrtbreakr
Then this movie is for you. There are A LOT of cheesy accents (I even heard one of the actors mistakenly do a BOSTON accent at one point!).Despite these accent issues, if you like a Southern setting (think, 'The Skeleton Key', but with a Lifetime feel) - then you will probably dig this movie.I would not consider this a suspense film, as there are no suspenseful moments whatsoever. It's a very PG "mystery". I would allow my daughter to watch it (she's 11).They didn't make this movie to win any awards. It is what it is, and the makers of the movie know it. Lot of cute male eye candy too ;) Perfect for a lazy afternoon on the couch. Give it a shot.5/10.