This is a real actor's movie, so why not hire some real actors for the job?

This movie features the type of story in it that seems more suited for a stage play. It focuses purely on its characters and the storytelling and it also definitely is a movie filled with lots of dialog. However, from the first minutes on already I get a really bad feeling about all of it. Both the dialog and acting was extremely lacking, from the first scene on already. It also became very obvious to me, in that very same first scene, that this would be a movie that wouldn't ever be going anywhere interesting with its story. And indeed, as the movie kept going on it started to become more and more apparent that this movie is nothing but an uninteresting and terribly pointless one to watch.

The story is even kind of annoying, once the movie starts its attempts to become a thriller as well. It's the type of movie that's about intertwined relationships, involving themes such as love, suspension, paranoia and hate. The movie however never becomes a very interesting or tense one and it even feels ridicules, how the characters behave and what actions they take at times. None of the characters are besides likable enough, mainly because they all have their bad sides, which overshadows their good sides and basically all characters are doing some despicable things throughout the movie.

And why, oh why, would you ever cast a porn star and Lindsay Lohan in a movie that involves a heavy dramatic story and some serious acting in it? Really can't say that Lindsay Lohan is a terrible actress but lets face it, she is not exactly A-list material. And this really is the type of movie that would have benefited from the presence of some better actors in it. They at least would have been more able to give their characters some more range and depth to them and potentially could have made things more interesting and engaging to watch.

This absolutely never becomes a very interesting movie to watch with anything. Even the nudity and all of the sex feels too gimmicky and can't spice things up and make things more interesting for the movie. It's one you can real easily do without!

4/10

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Youth, glamor, sex and Los Angeles, circa 2012. From: IMDb.com

Directed by:  Paul Schrader

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Nolan Gerard Funk, James Deen and others

Current release date: August 2, 2013

A couple begin to experience some unusual activity after bringing their newborn son home from the hospital. With the help of home-surveillance cameras and a team of experts, they learn they're being stalked by a nefarious demon. From: IMDb.com

Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee

Starring: Simon Rex, Ashley Tisdale, Charlie Sheen and others

Current release date: April 12, 2013

In this comedy film, a computer tablet full of the world's most hilariously offensive apps breaks through the borders of political correctness, stirring up cultural anarchy. From: IMDb.com

Directed by: Vince Offer

Starring: Rob Schneider, Michelle Rodriguez, Adrien Brody and others

Current release date: March 22, 2013

Directed by: Vince Offer

Starring: Rob Schneider, Michelle Rodriguez, Adrien Brody and others

Current release date: March 22, 2013

Three dancers -- one veteran performer and two upstarts who are also best friends -- vie for the lead in a new production from a snooty, aloof, imperious, and oversexed director. From: IMDb.com

Directed by: Malcolm D. Lee

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Charlie Sheen, Terry Crews and others

Current release date: April 12, 2013

In all fairness, this is something that could had worked out well and it wasn't a bad idea to start with. After all, the relationship between Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton always had been a very lively and interesting one but this particular movie does a very poor job at bringing it to the screen.

This movie basically does an excellent job at telling you absolutely nothing. I wouldn't even call this a biography, since it purely focuses on the Liz and Dick relationship but never on the actual persons, their careers or stories surrounding them. Please don't watch this movie expecting to learn a whole bunch about either Elizabeth Taylor or Richard Burton, or old Hollywood for that matter. Watching this is a very shallow experience and there are more reasons as to why that's the case.

The movie features some absolutely horrible storytelling. I don't believe I'm exaggerating when I say that none of the scene's in this movie last longer than 45 seconds. It's rushed and feels all over the place. It glosses over a whole bunch of stuff, as if it's nothing. Basically the way this entire movie feels is like a bunch of different and separate loose scene's that chronicle Elizabeth Taylor- and Richard Burton's relationship, without ever feeling well connected to each other. Because of this it also gets very hard to ever care about anyone- or anything, that's happening in this movie.

It's also annoying how the movie constantly repeats itself; Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton have the fight, the next scene they make up again. The following moment they are quarreling, the next they are buying gifts for each other to make up again. And this happens over and over again. It doesn't matter whether or not this also was the case in real life for Burton and Taylor but what does matters is that it works out tiring and not involving enough for this movie. It's bad and dull storytelling, that besides never gets deep and explains to you the how's and why's of their relationship and the effects it had on their further lives and careers.

And no, it's not at all like Lindsay Lohan is ruining this movie. Of course she is an odd choice to play Elizabeth Taylor because of her looks, age and acting range but I just can't ever say her presence ruined anything. Perhaps it's true that was all due to it that the story wasn't an all that demanding and well written one, so she hardly had anything to do and the movie pretty much got ruined by its own story already to begin with. If I still have to say something negative about her, it would be that it looks and feels too much like she is playing a caricature of Elizabeth Taylor with all of her little mannerisms but she never becomes the part. It's like she was too focused on behaving like Taylor but not focused enough on truly acting like her and acting in general.

But also since this is a TV production I'm really not complaining too much about its acting or production values. You already should have lowered your expectations when watching a made for TV production but still, even in that light this remains a very lacking production.

Just a too shallow and uninteresting movie experience, which all could be blamed for most part on its story and especially storytelling.

4/10

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Youth, glamor, sex and Los Angeles, circa 2012. From: IMDb.com

Directed by: Paul Schrader

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, James Deen, Gus Van Sant and others

Current release date: 2013

Youth, glamor, sex and Los Angeles, circa 2012. From: IMDb.com

Directed by: Paul Schrader

Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Nolan Gerard Funk, Gus Van Sant and others

Current release date: 2013