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Nightwaves
Velocity Home Entertainment // PG-13 // March 30, 2004
List Price: $24.98 [Buy now and save at Amazon]
THE MOVIE
Nightwaves is a 2003 made-for-Canadian-TV movie that is only a little better made than most of the made-for-TV movies you'll catch here in America on Lifetime TV. Had this script gone Hollywood, I imagine it would have starred Ashley Judd – but here we get Twin Peaks' Sherilyn Fenn as a young widow whose snooping gets her into a whole bunch of trouble.
As the movie opens, we are introduced to Shelby (Fenn), a happily married woman with a love for horses and seemingly not a care in the world. However, one night driving home from dinner with her husband, the couple gets in a car crash – killing him and leaving Shelby injured enough that she has to use a walker as she goes through her rehabilitation.
Her deceased husband had a hobby of listening to the police scanner, and when Shelby discovers that cell phone conversations can also be heard, she gets hooked on listening. She keeps hearing a married coupling fighting, and soon identifies them as a rich couple that lives in her neighborhood. When the wife is mysteriously murdered and the husband (played by David Nerman) becomes the prime suspect, Shelby realizes that the conversations that she listened to may hold some key evidence to the crime that was committed.
There are a few twists in the storyline – the first of which surprised me, but also allowed me to jump way ahead of the characters and figure out the solution to the crime rather quickly. Although Fenn is a decent actress, this is familiar territory – and the viewer is basically treated to another "woman in jeopardy" flick.
THE DVD
Video:
The movie has been shot in the full frame format and is presented in 1.33:1. The video is very soft looking, although there are not any noticeable flaws in the DVD transfer. Considering this was a made-for-TV film, I suppose this is about the best that could be expected.
Audio:
The audio is presented in 2.0 Dolby, with the option of listening to a 2.0 Spanish track as well. There's nothing noteworthy about the audio. It does its job, but little more than that.
Extras:
Other than a chapter selection, the only extras on this disc are a handful of Trailers for other Velocity Home Entertainment releases, most of which appear to be either direct-to-video movies or made-for-TV films like this one.
THE BOTTOM LINE
If you don't mind leaving your brain at the door and just watching a mindless, and sometimes fun, thriller – go ahead and pick this one up as a rental. It isn't nearly as steamy, sexy or exciting as the box cover would lead you to believe, but it's not the worst film I've seen in this type of genre either.
Nightwaves is a 2003 made-for-Canadian-TV movie that is only a little better made than most of the made-for-TV movies you'll catch here in America on Lifetime TV. Had this script gone Hollywood, I imagine it would have starred Ashley Judd – but here we get Twin Peaks' Sherilyn Fenn as a young widow whose snooping gets her into a whole bunch of trouble.
As the movie opens, we are introduced to Shelby (Fenn), a happily married woman with a love for horses and seemingly not a care in the world. However, one night driving home from dinner with her husband, the couple gets in a car crash – killing him and leaving Shelby injured enough that she has to use a walker as she goes through her rehabilitation.
Her deceased husband had a hobby of listening to the police scanner, and when Shelby discovers that cell phone conversations can also be heard, she gets hooked on listening. She keeps hearing a married coupling fighting, and soon identifies them as a rich couple that lives in her neighborhood. When the wife is mysteriously murdered and the husband (played by David Nerman) becomes the prime suspect, Shelby realizes that the conversations that she listened to may hold some key evidence to the crime that was committed.
There are a few twists in the storyline – the first of which surprised me, but also allowed me to jump way ahead of the characters and figure out the solution to the crime rather quickly. Although Fenn is a decent actress, this is familiar territory – and the viewer is basically treated to another "woman in jeopardy" flick.
THE DVD
Video:
The movie has been shot in the full frame format and is presented in 1.33:1. The video is very soft looking, although there are not any noticeable flaws in the DVD transfer. Considering this was a made-for-TV film, I suppose this is about the best that could be expected.
Audio:
The audio is presented in 2.0 Dolby, with the option of listening to a 2.0 Spanish track as well. There's nothing noteworthy about the audio. It does its job, but little more than that.
Extras:
Other than a chapter selection, the only extras on this disc are a handful of Trailers for other Velocity Home Entertainment releases, most of which appear to be either direct-to-video movies or made-for-TV films like this one.
THE BOTTOM LINE
If you don't mind leaving your brain at the door and just watching a mindless, and sometimes fun, thriller – go ahead and pick this one up as a rental. It isn't nearly as steamy, sexy or exciting as the box cover would lead you to believe, but it's not the worst film I've seen in this type of genre either.
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