A Deadly Deed (2021 TV Movie) User Reviews

Not bad!

[haroot_azarian · 6/10 · 9 January 2023]

Not too bad for a LMN movie. The story was not too far-fetched. The characters were pretty good and convincing.

Oh and in response to one contributor's factual mistake, Jackie's husband Jon died three years ago not three months ago. She clearly states that when she is talking to William, Jon's estranged brother.

Joey Lawrence was pretty good as the psycho villian. I also liked him in Girl Followed (2017). The way he talks and his cold emotionless looks on his face are pretty convincing.

The Lawrence family were pretty good in all. Andrew as director, Matthew as Jon's (Andrew), Joey (Kevin) and finally Joey's daughter Charleston (Madison).

Samantha Cope was pretty good too. Her too is also good at playing protagonist in this movie, and antagonist in An Organized Killer aka The Single Mom Conspiracy (2021).

This is another rare occasion where I give an LMN movie some stars. 6 in this instance.

VIEWS ON FILM review of My Husband's Secret Brother

[burlesonjesse5 · 6/10 · 20 September 2021]

My Husband's Secret Brother refers to a half-brother who works at an auto repair shop. He avoids his other half-brother cause well, the dude is a psychopath. Said psychopath is Kevin and he is played by Joey Lawrence. Lawrence's Kevin yields a needle and kills like a hit-man (he's so darn professional about it). He also appears like an oily son of a gun with what looks like painted-on facial hair.

Appearances begot, "Secret Brother" is a Lifetime thriller that gets invaded by the Lawrence brothers (Matthew, Joey, and Andrew). Matthew and Joey co-star while Andrew directs. And yeah, all three are executive producers.

Now is My Husband's Secret Brother an ego trip by those Lawrence broheims? It could be but the flick is not half bad. And is "Secret Brother" better than the other Lawrence outing titled Money Plane? It is but both films are still in bad taste (bad meaning nasty fun). Case in point: Joey Lawrence's Kevin goes to a lady's condo and drowns her in her Jacuzzi. He then goes over to her piano and plays a tune with his O. J.-style murder gloves on. Joey, we hardly knew ya!

All in all, My Husband's Secret Brother is sloppily directed by Andrew Lawrence with some off-kilter camerawork and some cringe-worthy dialogue. But hey, Lawrence is certainly ambitious and doesn't come off as the world's worst storyteller.

His "Secret Brother" about a woman who marries a plastic surgeon bent on doing whatever it takes to claim her inheritance, has enough twists and turns to make Keyser Soze do the doo wop. The film also gives you the standard Lifetime quirks. You got the po-po who is never around when someone gets offed. You got the sparse set locations and clear depletion of extras. Finally, you got the antagonist who announces himself to be the bad guy about 10-15 minutes in. Yup, My Husband's Secret Brother has a definite whiff of Lifetime fare. It's no "secret".

The Everstone Curse

[lavatch · 6/10 · 15 August 2023]

Jackie Everstone is a widow who inherited a $150 million estate from her husband Jonathan, who died under suspicious circumstances. Three years have passed since Jonathan's death, and Jackie is about to tie the knot with Kevin, a man whose shadowy past she knows nothing about.

While there was good pacing and an ebb-and-flow to the action, the film's main premise that Jackie would become involved with Kevin seemed strained and far-fetched. Kevin was so sleazy and the mask slipped so often that it was never believable that either Jackie or her perceptive daughter Madison would want him to take the place of Jonathan. And they never researched his current position as a plastic surgeon in which he is battling malpractice and is flat broke.

Jackie is in the process of opening the new Momentum dance studio with her best friend Kat. That subplot will figure in a surprising twist at the end. The preview of the new studio written by the journalist Maya Wilder turned inexplicably into a hit job that discussed the "curse" of the Everstone clan more than the dance studio.

The various plot strands were connected through the kind assistance of William Kimble, the brother of Jonathan. Jackie had been completely in the dark about the troubled Everstone family, and she never met her two brothers-in-law while her husband was alive. Her new awakening is to get to know the Everstones in ways she could never have imagined!

Utter crap

[Moviedog26 · 1/10 · 21 September 2021]

A deadly bad tv movie.

Very bad acting with a ridiculous story.

WHOA!!

[agreenskeeperscorp · 6/10 · 18 February 2024]

The Lawrence brothers look so much alike that the storyline is pretty much a joke. The one thing that saved this movie for me was Joey. He was the perfect A-hole. A complete tool. He still says his lines like, well Joey from his Blossom days. It sort of made me laugh more than I should've considering on what a Richard he was. It also was sort of like watching a movie with Emilio Esteves and Martin Sheen not being related anyway. Really weird. Matthew Lawrence is a pretty good actor in his own right I have to admit. Samantha Cope not so much. Again, Joey (WHOA) played a really good bad guy. Jennifer Taylor was so badly casted on Two and a half Men that I can't get over her less than good acting skills. WHOA!!

Wow

[Farfallina78 · 2/10 · 22 September 2021]

Let's just say the entire premise goes out the window given that the Lawrence bros all look alike. That said, no nostalgia for "Joey" can make this movie good. Poor Lifetime standard acting and an ABSURD plot with bad writing. Woah!

A Deadly Deed/My Husband's Secret Brother

[deedrala · 2/10 · 7 October 2021]

For some unknown reason, most Lifetime movies have two different titles, which unnecessarily confuses things.

I saw this one as My Husband's Secret Brother, so to extend that title with the plot in a nutshell:

>>So 'my husband's secret brother' (a sociopathic plastic surgeon with malpractice suits galore) killed his brother and then married me with the sole intention of killing me and my daughter so he could steal our inheritance that we received from my first husband, whom he had killed with the same motive, who was actually his HALF-brother.<<

**NOTE: The View on Films reviewer here incorrectly stated that the title referred to the mechanic brother William, who comes into the movie later on. It does not refer to him - it refers to the lead actor/character Joey Lawrence as Kevin Richardson. It was no secret that Jon and William were full brothers. But no one knew about Kevin, especially because he had a different last name, due to him being the first child of his mother and someone else before she married Jon and William's father.

Guess I've watched too many Lifetime movies, but I knew that Jackie's best friend and dance studio partner was in on it somehow, which was finally revealed at the end.

I have to give them credit for repeating several times that Kevin had medical malpractice lawsuits against him so as to answer the audience wondering why a plastic surgeon would need to steal an inheritance.

The abrupt, overnight turnaround of the mechanic brother from wanting nothing to do with Jackie and no desire to help her to just the opposite in less than two days made no sense, but of course obviously contrived plot devices seldom do.

Summary: just another run of the mill LMN drama that had nothing whatsoever to set it above the rest....meh.

Grade D- / 2 out of 10.

Better Than Expected

[cnh-95573 · 8/10 · 26 September 2021]

I am a long time fan of the Lawrence Brothers so of course I had to watch this movie. At first when it came on I was like this seems a bit off but once the actors started talking it got more like a movie and I got into it pretty quick. The acting was very good especially Samantha Cope. She has a lot of talent and was very convincing as was everyone else. But she had that extra something in her acting that tells me she's going to do good in movies.

The title gives away the twist but they surprised me with another twist I didn't see coming so that was great.

I read someone say that they look alike I don't think any of the brothers looks like the other really but it was odd that Joey's daughter who looks like his twin was playing his girlfriends daughter and not his. She did a good job as well.

The movie was a typical lifetime movie and it was entertaining and had a twist.

I didn't understand Matthew Lawrence's character because it seemed like he was very rude and didn't want to be bothered but then seems to change his character by the end. It's like it wasn't the same character.

I think if you like Lifetime movies you will enjoy this. If you aren't used to Lifetime movies then you may not like it much.

I enjoyed it and I hope they make more.