Philip Markoff (Jake McDorman) is a top Boston University medical student beloved by his professor. He zeros in on Megan McAllister (Agnes Bruckner) and pushes to get married. He seems like the perfect guy on the surface but nobody sees the darkness beneath. He becomes obsessed with Craigslist and starts attacking the women on those ads with escalating violence. Police detectives Bennett (William Baldwin) investigates.The start is way too slow. The tension is too low at the start. There is basically no tension. This should a horror story or a dramatic thriller. There is nothing close to that here. These are all perfectly functional actors given rather bland material despite the scary subject matter. It's a movie of the week at best.

So, I know this is based on a true story and if any of the facts are accurate, I'm wondering why these women didn't SCREAM! Dude! I mean lady! You give him your pin number to your bank account when you could have been hollering for dear life! The robberies took place in a public hotel where 9 times out of 10, the walls are so thin you can hear your neighbor watching TV or even snoring....yet, these women NEVER screamed! In fact, in most movies where it's life or death, characters tend to be silent and submissive.But...if you are faced with someone tying you up, taping your mouth closed, pointing a gat at your head and ROBBING you, and you don't at least SCREAM, it's like giving up. Now, don't get me wrong. There is a part of the movie where one of the women does fight back and gets shot but in a situation that is threatening your life, you MUST do everything you can to survive or die trying.

At first glance, I thought this movie will be some low-budget movie with a mediocre cast. I'm not a fan of TV movies but as my curiosity stepped in, I watched it.My initial impressions of it were all wrong.I didn't know the reasons why Craiglist shut down the Erotic category, but this movie tells the reason why.Overall, this movie was better than average as it had a decent cast and the acting was good with a true life plot.It isn't a must-see but one should definitely check this movie out.

Though very much different, why did the last scene evoke memories of Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift in 1951's "A Place in the Sun?"Philip Markoff had it all. Brilliant beyond belief, a winning personality and a girl who loved him deeply, and yet he threw it away due to the fact that he was a complete psycho. Amazing that he was able to balance his life for as long as he did.The film didn't concentrate on his family life other than to say that his parents separated and his mother showed up at his engagement party. As quickly as she showed up, that's how fast she evaporated from the film.Once the police were on to Philip, he goes downhill very quickly.You wonder how is fiancé could have been naive. Love is certainly blind.