Hide (2011)

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Based on one of Lisa Gardner's D.D. Walker mysteries, the TNT movie-of-the-week Hide could conceivably be a series pilot, or else why bother us with disposable romantic entanglements (which I found confusing, D.D must have a "type" because I couldn't generally tell the actors apart)? The convoluted mystery is pretty good - about a mysterious stalker who may have taken to killing women who look like his obsession - and I'm game to watch anything with Carla Gugino in it, but Hide almost always falls flat. Visually, it's workmanlike television, with nothing differentiating it from an episode of any of a dozen cop dramas on TV in the last 20 years. It's even less edgy than its plot would suggest, and the dialog feels written rather than naturalistic. The only bit I found memorable was the passing reference to a few in a university math department, which had nothing to do with anything, but I can confirm is based on a very real (and completely stupid, in my opinion) issue. 6 years ago