The Stepfather (1987)
Overrated low-grade thriller that seems to have built its reputation on Terry O'Quinn's careful, well-modulated performance. He's excellent, true, but has nobody in the last fifteen years noticed what a crapwagon of cliches the rest of this is? (It even has the Obligatory Tit-Baring Shower Scene right before the Obligatory Unkillable Killer Climax. How rote can you get?) O'Quinn seems to be guiding it into different territory at times, but the lockstep screenplay always ropes him back in by only allowing us to see his character from the outside. By the time the film's better impulses take over (the montage with Jerry setting up his new life is fascinating), it's all for naught. If I had my druthers, I'd ditch Jill Schoelen and her magnificent breasts and take a character study of the stepfather instead.
Grade: C
Overrated low-grade thriller that seems to have built its reputation on Terry O'Quinn's careful, well-modulated performance. He's excellent, true, but has nobody in the last fifteen years noticed what a crapwagon of cliches the rest of this is? (It even has the Obligatory Tit-Baring Shower Scene right before the Obligatory Unkillable Killer Climax. How rote can you get?) O'Quinn seems to be guiding it into different territory at times, but the lockstep screenplay always ropes him back in by only allowing us to see his character from the outside. By the time the film's better impulses take over (the montage with Jerry setting up his new life is fascinating), it's all for naught. If I had my druthers, I'd ditch Jill Schoelen and her magnificent breasts and take a character study of the stepfather instead.
Grade: C
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