The Stepfather Reviews

I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I wonder if the original version starring Terry O'Quinn was any good but this remake was pretty weak, I’m afraid. Basically, it was supposed to be a rather creepy movie about some rather creepy guy but, to be honest, I wasn’t impressed by the end-result, in fact, far from it. The first issue was that Dylan Walsh was never charismatic enough when he was acting like a ‘good’ guy and he was never threatening enough when he was going full psycho. Another problem was that nothing much really happened through the damned thing. As a result, to fill up the running time, they apparently made the rather weird decision to add so many scenes possible involving Amber Heard around the pool in her bikini. I mean, Amber Heard was and still is extremely lovely to look at but, even if the stepfather was really weid and creepy, he wasn’t a sex predator at all (in fact, his motivations were never really properly developed) so it was definitely a rather dubious decision. Anyway, to conclude, I think I was actually rather generous with my rating here, the damned thing was pretty weak and I don’t think it is really worth a look.