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The main protagonist is a nitwit and is so incredibly annoying at every step of the way. It was apparent not even 20 minutes in who the killer was yet Molly allows herself to be manipulated and misled repeatedly. She believes over privileged snobs to whom lies and deceit are a way of life, but chooses to disbelieve her own daughter and blame her for something that is totally out of character for her daughter to do.

It is obvious on multiple occasions that someone had been in the house yet at first she doesn't even tell her husband. And blames her daughter after refusing to believe her. How do you go from having a super responsible and mature daughter to suddenly treating her like a 5 year old? Especially after you already know someone doesn't want your family in the house.

How do you move into a mansion yet walk around in Mom jeans and tennis shoes, and to the country club at that? Nobody is that clueless. Who moves into that type of neighborhood and thinks that homemade cookies for your neighbor (the same neighbor who snubbed you when you first got there) is going to make you friends? Girlfriend is delulu.

The husband is just a puppet and doesn't seem like his role is fully integrated into the story. It's like he's just a prop for the unbelievable protagonist. Their son is almost never seen. The daughter goes from a mature and responsible go-getter in shill and wanting to do her part to helping the family to being distrusted by her Mom and after that begins skipping class and hanging out with the son of her Mom's main tormentor? Personality whiplash for sure.

How do you not have a security system? How do you not change locks, especially after the first incident when first touring the house and you both even agreed locks need to be changed? How do you repeatedly just walk around in the dark with your mouth hanging open, investigating intruders on your own, without alerting anyone else in the family? It is super annoying to see the same tropey gimmick throughout with no reward for the viewer.

The setting and overall premise earned 4 stars because I'm a sucker for spooky mansion murder mysteries, but this was campy but not done well enough to be enjoyable campy; it was tryng to be hallmark drama mystery but was bad even for hallmark. I mean hallmark movies have their own vibe for sure but this one fell short of that bar too.

I was disappointed because it had promise but a clueless female protagonist is always a turnoff for me. Why is this so overdone?

The movie definitely isn't the greatest. The actors are so-so. It really is hard to tell in the beginning who the villain or villainess is. There are so many that it could be. Maybe it is the snobbery of most all of the characters. Just goes to show that being yourself doesn't always work out.

This movie left me wanting to fast forward to the end of it. There was no way to do that though, unless I had it prerecorded. Unfortunately, that was not the case. At the end though, it left me wanting them to make a second movie to see what happened to the family after everything happened. I'm sure that won't happen. I can't stand it when movies leave a person with a cliffhanger like that.

2023's A View to Kill For might contain the most Gothic-looking set location in the history of Lifetime TV. It's a mansion with stairs to it that seem endless. Said set location is obviously the star and yes, there is a vista out back (hence the title). Heck, you wonder if the Addams Family undoubtedly hung there back in the day.

Starring Tiffany Montgomery, Samuel Whitten, and Brittany Goodwin, "Kill For" is the ultimate WASP endeavor, populated by snooty, upper-class denizens constantly being at each other's throats. In truth, it's like the members of Falcon Crest and The Stepford Wives decided to get together and make colluding magic. "I would be very careful and watch what you say around here". Okay easy sister.

Attached to a production company called Almost Never Films Inc. (what??) and feeling it was inspired by the board game Clue (what the heck happened to the creepy housekeeper?), A View to Kill For is about a woman and her family who are left millions and a big-arse abode after her rich daddy dies.

Murder and B & E chaos ensue because everyone is out to make the family in question miserable. The villain (or villains), well it's a long list of suspects. It could be the snotty next door neighbor. It could be the realtor that sold the mansion. It could be the fiance of the dead father. Finally, it could even be the overly friendly husband (I don't know why I sensed that).

In the end we the viewer (no pun intended) finally know who the antagonist is. It's almost deflating and the result is the filmmakers running out of ideas while showcasing the bad guy (or in this case, bad girl) as a plot device scapegoat being ill-defined as a Hedra Carlson type. What's worse, we see said antagonist doing every evil act through tired flashbacks towards "Kill For's" coda. Talk about patent and amateurish. "View askew".

The Nolans are a beautiful family in which Molly and Charlie have two wonderful children, Heather and Finn. They are just barely making ends meet when a visitor arrives at their home to inform them that they have inherited a multi-million dollar estate and mansion from Molly's father, whom she never met after she was given up for adoption.

The family relocates to the posh community of Blanca Bay that has all of the earmarks of exclusivity of a Martha's Vineyard. The audience knows from the prologue that Molly's father was murdered. Now, it is clear that someone in the community is targeting the Nolans.

The filmmakers were successful in evoking the smugness and snobbery of an elitist community. The actors were clearly enjoying themselves in developing characters dripping with condescension and attempting to humiliate the newcomers. There was even a trickle-down effect to the bratty children of the snobs of Blanca Bay.

There was not an enormous mystery in figuring out the villain. And the denouement was less than satisfactory in failing to disclose whether the Nolans might chose to make a beeline for their former home to escape the hornet's nest of Blanca Bay. Perhaps a sequel (or even a franchise) is in the offing to chronicle the further adventures of the Nolan clan in the snakepit.