The movie has a low-budget feel, and not in a charming way. The last 10 minutes are truly shocking, though.

This is possibly the worst hour and 35 minutes of my life.

Suspenseful and unnerving with painfully gripping performances from Mireille Enos and Peter Sarsgaard. If not for the severe unlikability of Joey King's character and terrible twist at the end that sends the rest of the movie's relatively believable plot crashing down in retrospect, I would have enjoyed this much more.

The slick pace, solid acting, very good soundtrack and adequate duration easily overshadowed the plot holes of a somewhat standard movie. Not outstanding, but definitely worthwhile.

E vai se criando uma imensa bola de neve de mentira. Até onde os pais, de filhos mimados, são capazes de ir para salvá-los, difícil questionar e julgar, quando não se tem filhos, mas moralmente tudo começa a dar incrivelmente errado quando paramos de dizer não para nossas crianças (eu, como madrinha peco muito nesse quesito, admito). Mas que desfecho, que plot twist, mas deveriam ter omitido o corpo, desnecessário spoiler fake… Maravilhoso angustiante. Maravilhoso, questionador e reflexivo...

A cautionary tale if ever their was one; well acted, and in true Hitchcockian fashion - it's all about that ending! I disagree with the poor reviews here, you should watch this.

Might be one of the worst movies I've watched, horrible story, really bad acting from the girl, and just a horrible horrible twist at the end. The movie keeps you wanting less, you're just waiting for those credits to roll. Overall, it's an uncomfortable and unorganized mess.

Not awful. The twist is good. The end needed to play out a little more. Oh well. 3.5

It has great performances from Joey King (Oz the Great and Powerful) and Peter Sarsgaard (Knight and Day) but this thriller feels like melodrama in writer and director Veena Sud (The Killing) wheelhouse

This movie has everything you could hope for in a thriller. It's suspenseful, unnerving, and layered. It did move a bit slow in some parts, but that doesn't do it in.

This is an overwrought, overacted and unconvincing melodrama that spirals out of control like a snowball speeding downhill collecting contrivance after contrivance until reaching its eye-rolling finale. The initial first moments actually tempt us with a potentially interesting, suspenseful set-up, but it quickly becomes one of those movies where the script requires the characters to make the stupidest, most inane choices possible, because if they acted like normal human beings, the film would be 23 minutes long. A small, racially insensitive moment in the middle of the film feels particularly egregious and totally unnecessary. And not to give too much away, but I'm getting a little tired of movies that seem to exist only for the sake of having a twist ending. I suppose the enormous success of THE SIXTH SENSE back in '99 has inspired countless filmmakers to try to top one another with the most amazing twist ending imaginable - unfortunately 99.99% of them are unsatisfying and pretentious. I suppose one could ponder while watching this to what degree parents could or should go to protect their children, but King is such a spoiled brat here in a disappointingly one-note performance, it defeats the purpose. - Jeff Marshall, Movie Blogger (Facebook)

Have you ever watched a movie where you're waiting for it to get better, but it doesn't? The story starts off well, but it seems like the writer wanted to wrap it up quickly, as if she ran out of ideas. There are parts where the actions are unclear, as if some important scenes were cut out. Overall, it was a waste of time to watch it.

Let's conjure up a plot twist then attempt to write an entire movie to accommodate such twist. Result is predictable.

*spoilers!!!!!* I have so many issues with this movie dear god... The characters are SO unlikable like a insane amount of unlikable. Especially kayla. Some specific scenes made me want to vomit like : -Kayla's dad looking at Britney like that SHE'S A TEENAGER. -Kayla's dad running away and not even attempting to look anymore or call 911.(they literally could've saved it and Kayla would've told him it was a joke and a bad plan) -the cop saying "the girl was pretty hot" 🤢🤢🤢 -literally every choice that Kayla and her parents make. -the uncomfortable shot of a dead body (obviously it's fake but still) -the uncomfortable drowning and stalking and murder scene -the parents washing the car off 🤢 -THE SCENE WHERE KAYLA SHOWS HER FATHER HER SELF HARM SCARS AND THE MOTHER SAID AND I QUOTE: "she started a few months after you left. I had her talk to someone but she didn't stop. .. So I don't know what to do " UM EXCUSE ME?!?!?!?! TAKE AWAY WHAT SHE'S USING AND GET HER INTO PERMANENT THERAPY. I had very high hopes for this movie just to have them all crushed. I don't know if the point was to absolutely loathe the characters but... If it was then they did their job. I will say Joey kings acting was really good and I would love to see her do more serious roles (possibly in a horror movie thriller?)I just hated her character. I did love the surprise ending until it got disgustingly uncomfortable.one and a half stars is GENEROUS. All in all I would never recommend this movie to anyone ever.

WORST MOVIE. I wasted my time watching this. The story and acting was awful and I couldn't believe that it ended when it did. This was a joke and such a bad movie. I wish I could give negative stars.

We enjoyed the movie, especially the ending, which surprised us. The premise was believable, the acting good, especially the mother. The daughter was obnoxious, but that was the whole point of the character

The writing, acting, editing...everything seems "off" about this movie...so the story doesn't ring true.

It has great plot twist.

The plot outline for the Lie holds great promise. It might have made a great movie. But alas, the main flaw, it seemed to me, was that every single character in this movie fails to behave the way a human would behave if put in the same situation. Of course movies, especially thrillers, REQUIRE this of some characters and the job of the film is to find out why they behave so unpredictably. SPOILER ALERT: We understand why one disturbed teenage girl would want to kill a friend for whom she holds a jealous loathing. But why would the girl's father give up looking for victim after only fifteen minutes? Why not notify the police? Why assume that the police will suspect that the girl died from anything but an accident? Why does the father of the victim not tell the police or anyone about her - even after 24 hours? Why would our erstwhile murderous teenage girl not reveal the truth about her friend - that they faked her death so the "victim" could be with her boyfriend for a few days? She keeps her secret even after her parents have completely lost their minds and killed the father of the "dead" girl by hitting him with their speeding car. If a movie does too many things that defy our ability to sympathize with its characters, it becomes too difficult to become emotionally invested in its story. It doesn't even matter if we're talking about a movie that is, say, pure fantasy. Its characters must behave in ways that are familiar to us. Actions must maintain a human size and scope or the movie puts us at a distance too far to inhabit its world. Go ahead, let the characters do what you want them to, but let these actions grow out of familiar, human, places.

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