SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

msing-26847 The couple should have done their homework before hiring Nate to be their contractor for the fixer upper on the house they bought. That Nate is very deranged! Nate could have the opportunity to shave off his beard or alter his appearance after he had murdered one or two persons in Fatal Flip. Also, was not sure if his name was really Matthew (as the couple's friend found out on the internet) or Nate.

phd_travel It's about time they made a movie about a nightmare contractor - there is potential. A foolish couple decide to buy an old house and fix it and flip it within 45 days. Yeah 45 days. They get the help of a contractor they met at a hardware store who turns out to be a psycho. Of course there are lots of tools around to dismember with.The cast isn't stellar. Remember Dominique Swain who had some big roles as a youngster ? She plays one half of the couple. Tatyana Ali from Fresh Prince plays her friend. The contractor isn't that hot but the guy of the couple looks suitably foolish.This story could have been better. Not a must see.

edwagreen A very highly predictable Lifetime drama where a guy kills his wife by smothering her inside a wall. He then goes around and finds another couple who have bought a house with the intention of selling it so as to garner a profit.Naturally, the guy gets hired to help with the work. As this is a Lifetime film, he gets overly friendly with the woman's best friend and tragedy results when she discovers his sordid past.He then comes on to our heroine, but by the film's end, after he has fled from our couple, he starts anew with two new victims as the film concludes.Did this couple actually think that they could live happily ever after they flip their house?

mgconlan-1 I watched last night's Lifetime "world premiere," a film called "Fatal Flip," a pretty routine production from that channel — it was also shot under the working title "The Fixer Upper" but if Christine Conradt had written it (she didn't, though it might have been better if she had!) she would have called it "The Perfect Handyman." Jeff (Michael Steger) and Alex (Dominique Swain), a young couple who've been living together but have avoided even getting formally engaged, much less married, decide to take out a loan, buy a dilapidated house somewhere (this is nominally taking place in New England but, being a Lifetime production, it was almost certainly shot in Canada), fix it up themselves and then "flip" it — sell it to someone else for a higher price that will cover the loan and their expenses. Only because of the terms of the loan, if they can't finish the job and resell the house in 45 days they're going to be socked with heavy interest penalties and will lose so much on the deal they'll probably have to declare bankruptcy. They quickly realize they're in over their heads on the repair job, and one day at the analogue of Home Depot in this fictional world they run into Nick (Mike Faiola), an all-purpose handyman. Jeff cuts a deal with Nick to hire him to help them with the remodel in exchange for a share of the profits they expect from flipping the house, and since he's homeless part of the deal is that he can live in the house while they do the job.There seem to be only two other significant characters, both women: the realtor who sold them the house (unidentified, at least this early, on IMDb.com's cast list), and Alex's friend Roslyn (Tatiana Ali — the only cast member I've heard of before), whose plot function is obscure but who at least provides some nice eye candy for any straight guys who might be watching this. Both the women are instantly attracted to Nick and they even make a bet with each other over who can get him first, but Nick is casting lascivious eyes at Alex and challenging her to go to bed with him just to prove she wants something more than the boring life she's trying to escape. Of course, being a reasonably attractive man in a Lifetime movie, he's also got other particularly unpleasant quirks. "Fatal Flip" is a pretty straightforward Lifetime movie, neither as bad as some of them nor as good as others, and though director Bharoocha gets some nice Gothic effects during the silent scenes in which Nick is sinisterly stalking Jeff and Alex through the crumbling old pile they're trying to restore into something saleable, she's hamstrung by the weaknesses of her cast. Mike Faiola as Nick is a reasonably attractive man but hardly the drop-dead gorgeous babe-magnet the script tells us he is, and Michael Steger looks like the result of a bizarre genetic experiment that attempted to cross-breed Harry Langdon and Tim Allen. I can't really tell you how good these people are as actors since the script doesn't require much from them in the way of acting, but I suspect there's a reason Tatiana Ali is the only cast member here you're likely to have heard of before!