'Maid for Revenge' Review: Lifetime's murder mystery falls flat with nothing new to offer

2023-05-14 18:54

'Maid for Revenge' is about a young maid who faints at her workplace and wakes up next to her client’s pool, covered in blood

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Lifetime is a treasure trove of great thriller films and has become our go-to movie streaming channel. With many movies releasing every other week, this week's find was 'Maid for Revenge'. The movie can be a decent add-on for your weekend plans if you are into the genre.

'Maid for Revenge' is about a young maid who faints at her workplace one day only to wake up next to her client’s pool covered with blood. As soon as she gains consciousness, she finds the owner dead in the pool while there is imminent danger to her eight-year-old son’s life. While she tries to be safe, she also tries to save her son from uncertain risk.

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A genre film that offers nothing new

'Maid for Revenge' is a far cry from a good thriller, and seems to have been written with as little effort as its title. The story starts with Annie (Kathryn Kohut), who is a maid, walking the streets of rainy suburbia with her arms full of cleaning supplies. She calls her eight-year-old son, Tate, to tell him when she will pick him up from school and heads to the last house of the day. "Let yourself in. I’m upstairs in a phone meeting. Please start in the kitchen," reads a note on the kitchen counter. Annie is unphased, so she gets to cleaning while generic tempo music plays. While she takes a break and drinks some water, she starts to feel dizzy and collapses to the ground. When she wakes up, she discovers that she is covered in blood with the dead body of the house owner floating in the swimming pool.

The plot thickens when she realizes that the person who died was a juror from Annie's trial case, Lydia Mosley. While her struggle to get to the bottom of the murder offers some thrills, a cliche-filled script makes it a boring affair after all.

Promising beginning

We won't be stating the end here, but 'Maid for Revenge' has its best and worst moments. Sure, there is some mystery to the way the characters are built up, but it fails terribly as everything is laid out in the open. The best parts of the movie come in the first half when Annie finds herself covered in the house owner's blood and tries to flee before getting rid of all the prints she has left in the house. The scene, which has no dialogue, helps bring some weight to the building mystery.

All in all, 'Maid for Revenge' might work for you if all you want is some cheap thrill that doesn't trouble your brain or offer anything new. 'Maid for Revenge' is exclusively available on Lifetime channel.