Return to Sender (2015)

A misantropic film, where even the dog is regarded as evil.Something is very wrong when you wish the rapist had kill the 'victim'.In many flicks like this, rape is just an excuse some women have to go on a killing spree, like an anger against all men waiting just the right excuse.The rapist was convicted, and had paid his time in jail, so he was innocent.This movie is pretty much feminist propaganda like 'kill all men'.Acting and directing was not particular great, too slow at times.

I don't know why I even started watching this movie. First, I can barely tolerate Rosamund Pike. She comes off as a snotty ice princess in everything she plays. She seems to have no range, unable to give any other type of performance other than cold, bored, elitist. And then, THEN, she says she killed her father's dog??? Why the hell do people insist on killing animals just to further a boring plot-line? The man that raped her is one of those carved in stone sleazy, disgusting bullies that always kills, rapes, or somehow brutalizes women. The movie was predictable and the actors so dyed in the wool bad, I fast-forwarded through some of it. Nick Nolte was wasted in this movie.

Miranda Wells (Rosamund Pike) is a hospital nurse. Her friends set her up on a blind date. She finds William Finn (Shiloh Fernandez) on her door step and assumes him to be her date. She lets him in and he rapes her. The police later catches him. She is told that her rape has made it hard to sell her house. Her hands start shaking and she can't advance to be a surgical nurse. Her nice persona changes and she writes a letter to William in prison. It is sent back with Return to Sender. Mitchell Wells (Nick Nolte) is her father and Nancy (Camryn Manheim) is her best friend co-worker.Fouad Mikati's directions are only TV movie level. It's a waste of cinematic level talents of the cast. I have no complaint about the cast but it doesn't rise up to their level. It's also not comparable to Lifetime movies or anything of that sort. It is really disconcerting to see talents wasted this way. One of my pet peeves is the metallic echo when they speak to each other over the prison phones. It's one of the wrong choices that keep this movie down. It's too static with much of the time spent in that prison visiting booth. Any shocking descent is flattened by that stationary camera work. By the time he gets out, the movie is two thirds over and I stop caring about the rest. There is an obvious twist that is done much better in Hard Candy. This would be a good Twilight Zone or a horror TV episode. It's not cinematic enough to be theatrical.

Rosamund Pike stars as a lonely nurse who agrees to go on a blind date with a co worker of a friends husband. When he arrives at her home earlier than planned it's quick to see that he is not the intended guy and her rapes her, leaving her badly scarred.The movie then slowly drags by until it livens up a bit towards the end. I thought Plke was very good in 'Gone Girl' but her acting performance in this is simply sub standard. Nick Nolte is great as Pike's father, his gruff voice fitting the roll perfectly.There are parts of the movie where the dialogue is very difficult to understand, which is frustrating.An opportunity was missed here, with the stars involved and more content it could of been so much better.