Time is running out as John and Laura grow restless and want results especially in the wake of a dire marriage needing stimulation. The Taylors have experimented with surrogates to carry their baby but to no avail. Unfortunately, Laura has had three miscarriages in the past. The marital tension has been building between the Taylors and a child seems to be the immediate solution to healing. They are both blessed with looks, materialistic excess and thriving careers but there is one main thing that alludes them as being completely sound in their lives, the playful addition of a baby to start their growing family. The premise involves power professional couple John, an attorney, and his gorgeous established chef wife, Laura (Regina Hall). Joining the contemporary delusional divas such as the aforementioned ‘ Fatal Attraction’s Alex Forrest and ‘ Obsession’s Lisa Sheridan (how about going way back and looking at the doomed love triangle with seasoned actress Jessica Walter’s crazed stalker Evelyn from 1971’s Clint Eastwood-directed ‘Play Misty For Me’) is Jaz Sinclair’s (‘Paper Towns’) sexy surrogate Anna looking to rock the titillating world of a handsome married man named John Taylor (Morris Chestnut). Thus, ‘ When The Bough Breaks’ loses its credible balance when the movie morphs into another hysterical female psychopath waving a sharp utensil around in the name of cartoonish, toxic outrage. Here, in ‘ Bough’, the tired formula comes off as another strained, eye-rolling rip-off pertaining to the otherwise revisited jeopardised love triangle scenario. In fact, ‘ Bough’ is in more of the synthetic spirit of the forgettable Beyonce Knowles-Idris Elba-Ari Larter 2009 horror slice-and-dice romancer ‘ Obsession’. The regurgitated theme of a twisted younger spicy vixen looking to get her sensual hooks on the hunky object of desire at the expense of the harried wife on the cynical sidelines has played out in other preferable big screen and cable TV-bound flicks. In fact, ‘ When The Bough Breaks’ could masquerade as a BET cable channel-based knock-off to filmmaker Adrian Lyne’s 1987 psycho-sexual thrill vehicle ‘ Fatal Attraction’, with an ethnic twist. The real shame is that ‘ Bough’ commonly echoes the commonplace conventions of a potent cheesy sexual thriller we have seen countless times to no end. Ultimately, ‘ When The Bough Breaks’ yearns to be a provocative pot-boiler with a high-end naughty pulse to its flat-lining frenzy of passion and pain. The artificial thrills fail to wring any imaginative or inventive suspense that register with genuine anxiety. Basically, Cassar’s transparent tension-filled teaser is atmospheric and arbitrary in the surrogate pregnancy genre. The so-called sinister shenanigans in ‘ When The Bough Breaks’ never feel majestic or mischievous enough to fill the realm of the big screen. Of course, the creepy cradle falls in the mediocre ‘ When The Bough Breaks’ when the Jon Cassar-directed, Jack Olsen-written hollow horror showcase commits the real scare of resembling a lightweight Lifetime Movie Channel twitchy televised project. Truthfully, its presentable package of panicky polish includes a stylish suspense piece highlighting an attractive cast involved in familiar dramatic cable-TV inspired shrugs and false jolts. The woefully generic ‘ When The Bough Breaks’ has the gloss factor going for it to a certain extent.
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