The Pact (1999)

This movie was cute. I like the part where they dress up as girls. I think it was cute when Rider's character, Lenny was drowning and his friend saved him. It was cute when Rider taught his friend how to fight and Rider's friend taught him how to swim. I give all movies with Rider Strong in them at least 9 stars, that doesn't mean they're really that good. But honestly I love all of his movies, but it might just be the fact that Rider is hypnotizing me with those gorgeous blue bedroom eyes of his, and his fluffy flippy dippy hair, and making me think these movies are good, just because he is in it. I'm not saying these movies are bad, but maybe only people who like Rider Strong would enjoy this movie.

I remember watching this on Hallmark, a long, long time ago. I loved it as a middle-schooler! Saw it again, after 15+ years... Time flies!The focus of the story is the friendship between the two boys... the hit-man and the target, as it turns out. I can see how the moment of the teenage hit-man's poignant realization that he's only being used, that the man he looks up to doesn't really care a fig about him, might seem too cliché and obvious to some... Not me :DWatching it again, I think the movie has held up pretty decently: 10/10.

This movie was one of twelve under the umbrella title "Tales of Intrigue" made by Allegro Films for a Canadian pay TV network. I haven't seen any of the others, but I have a strong feeling from this entry that the others are pretty poor just like this one. I have to agree with the other user commenters that the script has a number of, "Oh, come on now!" moments, starting from the first scene. While one may think from what I just said in the previous paragraph that the movie may be unintentionally campy, it isn't. It's an extremely slow, heavily padded story with no tension at any point, and you'll be able to predict what will happen long before it happens. I guess the production values are passable for a Canadian TV movie effort, and the movie gets a few points for being the rare Canadian movie that is actually set (mostly) in Canada. But it's only worth watching for those non-Canadians who may be wondering why most Canadians don't embrace their nation's movies and television shows.

The bad guys send a kid to a prestigious boys' school to find the student who is in the witness protection program, for the usual reasons. Of course, this kid doesn't fit in,socially or otherwise. He tries to befriend the studens in an effort to eliminate, by "friendly" questioning, the possible students on his list. Don''t want to spoil plot by saying more. The student "infiltrator", taught never to trust anyone, is presented as multi-dimensional, and is affected by the other students. Good suspense, excellent characters,and gives insight into how one's upbringing affects who you are.