The Perfect Killer (2025 Lifetime Movie)
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Cast: JaNae Armogan, Jason Reilly, Laura Provenzano, Kirsten Comerford
Director: Roxanne Boisvert,
Writer(s): Roxanne Boisvert, Audrey C. Marie
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DonateDonate monthlyDonate yearlySynopsis (via Lifetime)
When Mila receives a desperate phone call from her teenage stepdaughter Charlie, her husband Jack, flies out of bed to find her. As Jack arrives at the meeting point, he is fatally shot. Charlie later comes home, unharmed, and it is obvious that she did not make the call. After Jack’s body is found, they realize they were victims of an AI voice scam. Charlie has recently reconnected with her estranged birth mother, Alyssa, who lost all rights to see her until she turned 16. Emotions run high as the pair quickly bond and both of Charlie’s motherly figures adjust to one another. The more Charlie learns from Alyssa about her past, the more she wonders if she ever truly knew her father. Tensions heighten after Mila escapes an attack from an unknown assailant. Possible suspects pile up when the police find out that Alyssa is back in the picture, Mila was filing for a divorce from Jack, and that Jack was having an affair with a family friend Rebecca. Is the AI killer someone close to them? Will they be caught on time to prevent the next murder? JaNae Armogan, Laura Provenzano, Kirsten Comerford, Jason Reilly, and Sayla de Goede star (2025)
Recap/Wine Thoughts
The movie starts at DA CLUB. A bouncer rejects a teen with a fake ID, but he lets her in after she makes a scene. The teen’s name is Charlie, and she calls her parents for help. Mila answers the call and wakes up her husband. The dad, Jack, rushes to help his daughter, but it is a setup, and he is shot on the spot.
Charlie comes home shortly after and denies ever making the call. Mila is confused and calls the police. When the detective arrives, she tells them that Charlie’s dad is dead. Charlie has a FREAK OUT BREAK DOWN and calls her brother/boyfriend, Matthew. “Dad’s been shot and killed. Please call me back.”
Mila plays a voicemail for the detective, and Charlie denies it being her on the call. Someone is using her voice. Charlie doesn’t trust Mila and calls her godparents, Melody and Tim, to stay with them for a while. (Tim is notably played by one of my favorite Lifetime hunks, Jean-Paul Najm.) Tim and Melody are going through a divorce, and Tim was Jack’s business partner.
A random lady follows Charlie around the whole movie. Will it pay off? Maybe! It’s a Lifetime; sometimes, things get lost in the shuffle.
Oh, good, more characters. We meet another friend of Jack’s, Harrison, and his wife, Rebecca, Matthew’s parents. Their relationship is on the rocks because Rebecca is sleeping with someone named Kevin. (It’s a lot.)
Matt and Charlie hang out by the pool and talk about AI cloning your voice in only three seconds. We also learn that Jack was the DA and had a lot of enemies. Later, Matt starts acting REALLY weird and runs off. (He saw his mom and Jack hooking up.)
Mila gets threatening texts, and the police station a hot cop outside their house. Charlie remembers the tree lady lurking around for a while and worries that the woman is stalking her. BUT WHY!
The stalker lady comes to Charlie’s door and tells Charlie that her name is Alyssa and that she is Charlie’s birth mother. The timing is sus, and Charlie brushes her off. Alyssa thinks it went well and goes home to tell her sister/roommate/blonde friend. Olivia. It turns out Alyss has no alibi for when Jack was murdered. Olivia makes Alyssa call the detective back and admit she lied about her alibi.
Mila and Rebecca have a heart-to-heart conversation, and Charlie is upset that her boyfriend’s mother is hooking up with her dad. Matt confronts his mother and calls her a fake-ass bitch. Charlie also tells Mila, who has also been keeping secrets. Mila filed for divorce one month before Jack’s murder. (Mila knew about the cheating; it was a problem for years.) Mila can tell Charlie is back to hating her and decides to warn Charlie about her birth mother being an addict. Mila also spills the tea about Jack cheating on Mila with Melody, Charlie’s Godmother.
The hot cop gets called away from watching the house, giving the killer an opportunity to break in while wearing all black in the middle of the day. The intruder breaks in through a sliding glass door, and Charlie is home alone. Charlie calls 911 and hides in a closet. She is traumatized and cries at a picture of her dad, asking him to help her. (It is ridiculous!)
The detective gets a bit of a montage interviewing all the suspects and finishes it by calling her boss and saying, “I’ve interviewed all the suspects!”
Charlie also does her detective work and learns her Godfather and Mila have been secretly talking. Could they have been having a secret affair, too? Charlie tries to talk to Mila about Tim, but Mila isn’t having it. So, Charlie meets up with Alyssa for advice instead. The estranged mother and daughter go to lunch and even hug each other. Alyssa verifies that Jack was a chronic cheater and litigious as hell. He pushed Alyssa out of her daughter’s life, and it drove her to alcoholism.
Meanwhile, Mila finally meets with Tim, where they accuse one another of murdering Jack and provide motives. Melody is in the other room recording the whole conversation. She quickly plays the recording to Charlie and Alyssa and advises them to go to the police. Charlie doesn’t want to turn her stepmother in and searches the house for evidence to prove someone else killed her father.
Charlie finds a burner phone with all the messages on it. It was planted by Melody, I guess. I’m unsure why Melody is suddenly the killer, but she is. Melody stabs time and leaves the body for Mila to find and take the blame for his murder. Then Melody rushes home to clean herself up to act shocked when the police tell her that her husband is dead.
Everyone comes together under one roof, and we get the grand final. No one is innocent here. Mila sent herself threatening messages; Melody killed Jack, but who cares. What happened to Rebecca? There is a struggle, but the hot cop rushes in and saves everyone because he is so dreamy.
The end! I’m done with this movie!
Stray Thoughts
This is a great example of exposition and past relationships taking greater priority over character development, creating high stakes.
DO TEEN TALK LIKE THIS ON THE PHONE?!?! DOES GEN Z NOT KNOW HOW TO PHONE?!?!
Overall rating
Number of Kills: 🔪🔪 (2 knives)
Lifetime Tropes: Murder, Cheating Spouses, Birth mother stalker
Enjoyment Level (1-5 scale)
🍷 (1 Glass of Wine)
Should you watch it?
Pour it Up (Give it a shot!)
Put a Cork in it! (Skip it!)
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A real snoozefest!
Bizarre plot line. The whole estranged mom part totally didn’t fit. The movie would have been the same without it. It was like two separate plots smashed together. Weird.
My major issue with this was we were basically the teen daughter, learning many things as she did. Although she still knew more than we did. I felt so bad for her. In my 40s, I couldn’t deal with all the lies, twists and turns, let alone being only 16. Also didn’t like all these characters who we knew nothing about until it moved the plot along. It wasn’t a complete snooze fest to me, but it was a bit of a mess plot wise. Hard to follow along and made it so that you didn’t really care about anyone except the daughter and possibly her 2 moms. More so the biological mom, since the stepmom was lying every minute
Pierre David and Tom Berry movies used to be so good, what happened? There storylines are so lacking and boring now. And they keep recycling the same 10 or so actors in each of their movies, like is there a shortage of actors in Canada?
OMG. This movie gave me a headache. Lol. It was so jumbled, throwing in a new character every 10 minutes. You practically needed a score card to figure out who’s who, who’s married to who, who’s a suspect etc. The only one we knew wasn’t a suspect was Charlie. I’m surprised her character didnt lose her damn mind with all the changes, suspects, affairs etc. This movie really did make me worry bout AI scams and how easy it is for people to do them. Scary stuff. We all should have a safe word to use with people we know so that we know we’re really talking to who we thinking were talking to. Unfortunately that won’t help with the majority of scams etc. We all need to be careful