The characters of the ‘victims’ are stupid, and the ending totally ignores another character’s fate.
The plot is easy: a couple hires a nanny to look after their newborn and their 4-year-old son; she seems perfect like a dream until she turns out crazy like a nightmare.
More in details: Jen seems a perfect nanny, the boy Adam likes her, she can cook, and they’re happy to have her. The wife Fay starts getting upset one night when she sees that Jen rearranged the furniture of a room for their party without asking her, and at that point I still had a little hope of something a little bit interesting. Not great, that was obvious, but at least a bit entertaining; I thought it’s going to start with the nanny taking liberties in the house like it was hers and slowly progress into more and more complicated situations... but no, it wasn’t like that, from this moment on it becomes terrible. It had been boringly slow up to now, like many thriller are at first, but after this it became annoyingly predictable.
Next morning Fay finds her still asleep when she has to go to work; Jen is totally hangover for drinking too much at the party the night before. Fay goes out but hurries back worried for her children and finds Jen asleep again and wearing her clothes, while Adam is bathing the little baby. Fay is angry that Jen wasn’t looking after them and tells her that she has to go away.
Jen doesn’t want to go, and when Fay sees a strange man coming into Jen’s room she calls her husband Tim and also the police. Jen walks out and they close the door, but it’s not that simple. She has her mail addressed to their house and nowhere else to go, so the police order them to let her in. They hire a lawyer to have her evicted, but this requires a lot of time.
There are the usual tricks: she’s only wearing a bathrobe when Tim tells her to go out: she places herself at the window and ignores him so he touches her to have her attention and she moves to make the teenage kid and his mom outside think that he did something to her, so then she’ll say to the police that he tried to touch her and the wife got jealous. Another scene: Tim shouts at her that they’ll take away every comfort and do everything in their power to get rid of her while she’s recording him on her cell phone, and she’ll later show the recording to the judge to make it look like she’s the victim. They fill the house with hidden cameras but the horny kid tells Jen everything: he likes to hack other people security cameras ( ! ) and with his help it’s now Jen the one doing the spying. That kid is willing to do anything she asks in order to have sex with her, and has no remorse in having his innocent neighbour arrested: he tells Tim that she uses drugs so Tim uses his phone to record while he enters her room finding her in her underwear with a syringe: when the police arrive she says she has diabetes and was using the syringe for that purpose, so it looks like he entered her room and filmed her half-naked and stopped her from taking her medicine, and he’s arrested. When he’s let out he can’t go back home because Jen asked a restraining order against him.
Finally Fay finds a girl who seems to know Jen, but the only thing she can learn from her is Jen’s real name: Alexa. During a phone call she tells Tim that she’ll ask that girl Wren about Jen’s real identity, and Jen hears it all via the cameras. Jen hurts the kid with a knife and takes his car, with him locked in the trunk. She orders Wren to get into the car (and she does!! I mean, she does!! come on!), and after an accident Wren is found dead - although nothing is said about the boy, I don’t even know if they found him or not...
Fay finds a picture of Alexa on a five-year-old paper on a file at the library, and manages to convince the cop to investigate the matter. Fingerprints match, Alexa is wanted for a fire that killed some people, but the cop is told that ‘Alexa’ died in the car accident, only because they saw Alexa’s tattoo on the dead girl’s wrist and they assume it’s her. The family is happily reunited in their home, but Jen comes back for revenge, with her friend’s help who knocks Tim out catching him off guard. Fay hides her little child but not Adam, and doesn’t even call the police. Jen finds her sitting quietly with her son, in terrified wait... the police eventually come anyway, when they find out that the dead body was not Jen’s - of course not, it was of a poor innocent girl nobody cares about apparently.
When Jim comes to, he fights with the guy until he’s shot by the police. Jen wants to escape the police and takes Adam hostage, but she doesn’t really try to escape, she moves very little, to the other side of the house or something. Jen had told Fay to give her Adam or she’ll kill him and Fay let the child go with her; Jen told her not to follow her or she’ll hurt Adam, and yet this time Fay runs after her, pleading to let him go. Jen is moved by this (!) and cries that nobody loved her like that, that her first foster mother told her that her mom didn’t want her, and tries to kill herself jumping down from a certain height - don’t know any specific, but Fay seemed scared for her life; Fay tells her that her mom loved her and saves her when she jumps, and helps her go back up to safety and hugs her!!!!!!
When the police take her away, Fay tells her that it’ll be alright and she’ll sent her that article on her mother... then the family sells the house to a cousin and move near grandma in a smaller house, so now it’ll probably be grandma looking after the little ones...
Terrible, it was just terrible, stupid and boring. Nothing I liked about it.
ITA evil nanny una famiglia in pericolo
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