A wacko news reporter fakes her own kidnaping to be famous. Then she gets more and more out of hand framing a colleague for her kidnap and worse.
It's boring after a while.
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phd_travel1 February 2020
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digger-0635824 February 2020Yet another in a long line of bad Canadian movies. Appears to be a low budget movie that was poorly made. No name cast working with a stupid, at times unbelievable story. What are supposed to be plot twists can be seen coming from a mile away. I hope the film makers did not expect anyone to be fooled by the juvenile story. The only thing worse than a bad story is the acting. Amateurish at best and just awful at times. Maybe they were trying to spoof real actors? This movie is so bad that it almost forces you to watch to see what stupidity will come next. If you have a pet, spend your time with it. You'll be more entertained.
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nattyys1 October 2021I am someone who watches Lifetime movies to poke fun at them with their dad, however, this one was just pure torture. The first thing I did after watching this movie was read reviews to check if everyone else was left in pure despair once it was over. And lemme tell you, I was SHOCKED to read that "critics" believe that this movie is mediocre at worst and that it's at least worth a watch. IT'S NOT. JUST TRUST ME.
This movie is absolute garbage and such a waste of 2+ hours (with ads). First, the main character, Sasha, is just a crazy lady who wants to further her career in broadcasting by faking her own kidnapping. Okay, that's fine. The issue is that she is the most unlikable main character ever. But it's fine since there has to be other likable characters right? NOPE. Every single character in this movie is a walking comic book villain. Except for the "alleged kidnapper" Diet Nick Jonas (honestly I don't remember his name but he looks like a bootleg Nick Jonas) but he was in the movie for like 10 minutes so he wasn't a well established character at all. I literally can't tell you his personality except for being polite and acting like a piece of styrofoam.
The "heroes" (???) are literally the worst people too, it's impossible for the audience to root for anyone!! Also where are the police? Probably tooting around somewhere because everyone in this universe is the worst.
Also, the most important scenes happen in the first 15 minutes and the last 5 minutes of the movie, the remaining 1hr 10 minutes is just a bunch of static. I'm kidding, that would be more exciting than what happened which is just characters sulking around and looking suspicious.
I wish I could be refunded my time after watching this. Again, I watch these movies to poke fun at them and enjoy laughing at the ridiculousness that happens on screen, but "Abuducted on Air" left me enraged and physically in pain. -
Mewkebi7 August 2022This was a surprisingly good movie with a good plot based with sprinklings of a true story from 2016 concerning Sherri Papini. The bad reviews kept me from watching this movie for a while until one outlandishly bad review gave me the impression that the reviewer most likely did not watch the movie at all and just wrote a pile of rubbish. I was proved right after watching the movie. Although this movie will not win any major awards, it is a good watch.
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lavatch7 December 2020"Abducted on Air" (a.k.a., "The Lead") is a hard-hitting film about the rise and fall of Miss Sasha Bruder. A cub reporter on the Cable 4 news channel in Cleveland, Sasha lives in the shadow of the lead investigative reporter, Diane Baldwin. Colluding with a journalism professor, Sasha fakes her own abduction on camera, hoping that it will boost her career and lead to a meteoric rise in her standing with the public.
The sleazy professor is Aidan Ferguson, who is married to the daughter of the college president and who has bailed out her philandering husband in the past when he had an affair with Lily Reisman. Now, he has taken up with Sasha, and their plan spirals out of control. Sasha compounds the issues by trying to frame her kind colleague Alex, who adores her. She also eliminates her rival Diane...or, so she believes!
One of the most interesting characters is the professor's wife Jocelyn (Joce), who recognizes that her husband has become enmeshed in a situation he cannot handle. Joce goes on the offensive to challenge him to return to the moral compass he possessed at the time she married him.
Aidan's role model was the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Ernie Pile. He is aware that iin his own shabby life and career, he has failed to live up to those high standards. It is Joce who brings Aidan back to reality. The actress gave a very moving and understated performance in the role of Joce.
There was one loose end in the screenplay with no explanation of what happened to Diane Baldwin. After Diane's home was trashed and she disappeared, it really appeared as though Sasha had killed her. It was never explained how Diane survived the break-in or what was the degree of involvement of Sasha.
Apart from the one detail, the film was well-crafted with a star turn by the actress playing Sasha. There was never a dull moment in the reporter's antics as she sought her meteoric rise to a career at CNN. At one point, she stares at the camera and tells her public to "be vigilant!"
Sasha should have taken her own advice and also listened to her mentor Diane, who spent years in learning her craft and paying her dues. Sasha wants instant fame and a meteoric ascent that only led her to give a pathetic televised interview from the penitentiary. -
CranberriAppl30 September 2021For the sloppiness of Sasha and Aiden, this scheme took entirely too long to fall apart. The concept of this movie could be interesting, but it just takes too long to get there.
Sasha's actress is good at playing this fame hungry, deranged climber, but at the same time, I don't get why the character was ambitious enough to kill. Compounding her crimes once she was "found," was so ridiculous. Granted, Aiden wanted to go to the cops, but come on...now you're a killer? Kristin Booth is great as Jocelyn as is the actress who plays Diane. The actor playing Aiden also does well at seeming in way over his head. I'd say, in general, this is a good cast.
The ending is designed to be "Sunset Boulevard-"esque, but if you ask me, Sasha didn't have a psychotic break like Norma. Sasha was fully aware of her actions, so I'm hoping the scene is meant to be interpreted as her having no regrets and just being stone cold versus someone who's going to enter an insanity plea.