Stalked by My Doctor: The Return (2016) Reviews

• Surprisingly Entertaining

  tomfsloan2018-12-20

  This was not the best movie ever made but it was very entertaining. This was the first of two sequels so far. There was something going on all the time. Not much down time at all. There were a number of plot holes and dumb moments, but you could say that about most movies. As the bad guy, Eric Roberts is good. His little fantasies were effective (and they were made even better in the second sequel.) The overall acting was pretty good. I liked the sets and locations they used. Typical Hollywood, but still nice. They could make a whole series of these Stalking Doctor movies!

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• I hope there's a whole series of these movies, like Death Wish but in reverse

  Quinoa19842016-09-08

  Of course I watched this with my wife, of course I did - the first one was a spectacularly hysterical comedy in the guise of a stalker thriller featuring the great ham Eric Roberts in set pieces like him repeating in a hissy fit "I'm a GOOD DOCTOR! I'M A GOOD DOCTOR!" This time he "returns" and basically pulls a Lolita plot-line, romancing the mother of a teenager to get close to the latter (though she's 18, don't want him to suddenly be TOO creepy, right?) It's got some similarly hysterical, holy-horseshit moments like when Eric Roberts is driving after a momentary rejection and is going faster and faster and faster around the bends of a highway. At the same time it doesn't have quite enough of them to be as terribly memorable (or memorably terrible) as the first movie, which got the formula down already as far as plot-convenient-stalking-doctor movies go (I'm sure there are so many out there, and I'm only half joking), so this follows similar tropes but gets slowed down in its energy from a 'Brother' character to the mother character who becomes the expendable one. But it is still worth watching if you or your significant other, or both, are in the mood for Eric Roberts being his particularly enjoyably slimy motherf****r of a character, having multiple dream 'what-if' scenarios and ending his plight at a moment that is simply... perfection.

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• ***1/2

  edwagreen2016-09-26

  The sad thing here is that this doctor does make house calls. Eric Roberts has mastered this part of the emotionally disturbed cardiologist and he is at it again saving lives and becoming too involved with his "patients," or should I say victims. In this one, he saves the life of a young girl in Mexico and feels that in order to win her over, he will romance and even marry her emotionally scarred mother who never emotionally recovered from the accidental death of her husband year's back. Roberts can be charming, but so delusional when his mind reverts to scenes where he is torturing or killing anyone in his way only for him to come back to reality. He stops at nothing to achieve his goals including the romancing and even marriage to the mother, altering a blood test so as to cause friction between the girl and the boy she is dating, murder of his brother-in-law to be. The film is also a good one as it shows how those who were skeptical of him at first are literally lured into his orbit with all sorts of mayhem resulting. What about saving the life of the prison guard at the end who is choking? Will that grant him certain liberties? A sequel to this is well in order.

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• Roberts Make It Better With A Wink And His Performance

  Desertman842017-02-20

  Eric Roberts returns for his role as the Dr.Beck and once again he is up to no good in this Lifetime TV movie thriller.Stalked By My Doctor:The Return is a sequel that tells the story of another misadventure or better yet obsession with another patient. At the opening of this TV movie that also stars the beauteous Claire Blackwelder and Hilary Greer,we get to see Dr.Beck at Acapulco,Mexico trying to meet someone interesting whom he can get romantically involved with.But he turned out to be rejected by a female rich snob for not being rich enough.But things turn out to be positively fine after he saves someone from drowning via Cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR).He meets gets to know the teen- age Amy Watkins,whom he has given CPR, and her mother Linda Watkins,who happens to be a rich widow and is scared of heights. Very much attracted to the teen-age Amy,Dr. Beck tries to get into the picture of the lives of the Watkins family.He does this by helping Linda with her fear of heights and getting romantically involved by marrying her in order to try to kill her in the process to eventually get into Amy.He also tries to be a trainwreck by breaking up Amy with her current boyfriend and killing Linda's brother Uncle Roger,who discovers that he is up to no good. Being a typical Lifetime TV movie,do I need to tell more on how this movie is going to end up and who is going to stop Dr.Beck eventually?The last spoiler I am going to give is that the police would be no way involved in stopping the neurotic and psycho doctor.Obviously,this is a clichéd and predictable with typical elements of a Lifetime TV movie.It also has some ridiculous moments particularly when Linda did not fall but managed to hang on into the wall upon being pushed by the doctor for her death.Also, questionable parts of the screenplay exist on like why is the youngest character - the teen-age Amy - the smartest character into the story as compared to the adults like her mother,her uncle and the up-to-no-good doctor? But in spite of it all,one would definitely enjoy watching it.Even a fellow reviewer IMDb suggested a regular Stalked By My Doctor series.No question that one would love Julia Roberts' older brother as the up-to-no-good doctor in his obsessions with different patients.It is a fact that the actor is enjoying himself in this B- movies with a wonderful performance and having fun on the set.The wink that he had upon saving the prison guard via CPR attests to that. Aside from that,the wink could also be a sign for viewers that another TV movie about Dr.Beck is coming soon in 2018. Why not?Isn't Eric the most prolific actor we have to day on TV?With those reasons mentioned,he makes it a better movie to watch at Lifetime Channel.Definitely,a lot better than many of the TV movies shown at Lifetime including those with the title "Stalked By My ______" movies.

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• It's better than the first, and Eric Roberts again makes it worth seeing

  mgconlan-12016-09-06

  I put on Lifetime for last night's "world premiere" — I don't know if Lifetime is going back to airing movies regularly on Mondays or was just doing this as a Labor Day special and then will go back to the sorry "original" shows they put on most of the week (including the "Little Women" exercises in modern high-tech dwarf-tossing) — which was "Stalked by My Doctor: The Return," an unexpected sequel to a previous Lifetime movie, Stalked by My Doctor. I'd enjoyed "Stalked by My Doctor" despite the staleness and sometimes risibility of its plot (the writer and director of both films was Doug Campbell), mainly because of the tour de force performance by actor Eric Roberts in the male lead of the doctor, a super-surgeon from L.A. named Albert Beck, who in the first episode fell head over heels for the underage chiclet Sophie Green (Brianna Joy Chomer) whom he determined to marry, and when she said no to him he kidnapped her, tied her to the four posts of an old-fashioned bed in a classic S/M bondage position, and threatened her with dismemberment until she escaped, showed up at her own "memorial" service, and the cops came to the home where the doctor held her and he's fled. A final tag scene located him in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, though when "Stalked by My Doctor: The Return" opens he's relocated his Mexican abode from Cabo San Lucas to Acapulco, where he starts the movie by buying a drink for an American tourist named Rachel. It seems Rachel came down to Acapulco with a girlfriend, only she hooked up with a guy and left her alone for several days. Using the name "Victor Slauson" — an alias he's established enough that he's been able to obtain a U.S. passport with that name — he shows her smartphone photos of his Mexican mansion and his oceangoing yacht, which he says he's had trouble coming up with a name for until now, when after meeting her he's decided to call the boat "Rachel." Fortunately Rachel is smart enough to see through his B.S., asking if he really thinks he's going to get anywhere with such an obvious and old-fashioned pickup strategy like that, and she walks away from him without even taking the drink he bought for her. (Lucky her.) Then there's a scene showing Victor nè Albert doing what he usually does to get over being rejected — he gets in his car and drives really fast — but the next day he's on the beach and he meets the underage pigeon whom he's going to stalk for the rest of the movie: Amy Watkins (Claire Blackwelder), whom he meets on a beach in Acapulco when she's nearly drowned and he uses his skills to perform CPR and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her and therefore save her life. Of course he's instantly smitten with her, but in a plot twist he no doubt picked up from reading Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita" (at the end of the movie he's actually shown reading the book), he decides that the way to Amy Watkins' heart (or, more precisely, a somewhat lower part of her anatomy) is to marry her widowed mom Linda (Hillary Greer), who's been a psychological basket case since Amy's dad was killed falling off a ladder at their home eight years earlier. She's developed an intense fear of heights and hasn't been on a date with a guy since she lost her husband, and Dr. Slausen (as she knows him) sets his cap for her by having her stand on higher and higher surfaces — first a footrest, then a chair, then a stepstool and finally what looks like the same ladder her husband had his fatal accident on — in what Campbell, who likes to stop his movies dead in their tracks to show us how many classic films he's seen, copies (though with the genders reversed) from the scenes of Barbara Bel Geddes trying to get James Stewart out of his vertigo in "Vertigo." We also get a few abruptly cut in sequences that Campbell tantalizes us with before we realize that they're simply the central character's dreams, though one odd scene that isn't a dream of Dr. Slauson occurs earlier in the show, when he's just arrived in San Diego and he's trying to find Amy. His one clue is a T-shirt with the name "Hamilton" on it, indicating that she goes to Hamilton High School (there is no high school named "Hamilton" in San Diego, but who cares; it's only a movie), so he hangs out there and looks at the students going by until he sees her. Unfortunately, she's with her age-peer boyfriend Garth (Mark Grossman, a nice, appealing piece of young man-meat who shows a good-sized basket, especially in a brief scene in which we get to see him in grey sweat pants), and Garth (correctly) calls the not-so-good doctor a "pervert" and punches him out. Then, after Amy explains that he's the doctor who saved her life in Mexico, Garth apologizes but still doesn't like the not-so-good doc. For all the weaknesses — the far-fetched and almost risible plotting (though at least this one is a bit more believable than the first), the wretchedly cut-in dream sequences and the borrowings from earlier and better movies that seems like Doug Campbell tapping us on the shoulders and saying, "You see how many movies I've seen?" — Stalked by My Doctor: The Return is actually quite good; Campbell's script, as silly as it gets sometimes, at least exploits director Campbell's talents for Gothic atmosphere and effective suspense editing, and as in the first film he gets an excellent performance out of Eric Roberts. He's neither too milquetoast nor too floridly villainous; instead he's presented as a character who's professionally competent and could easily inspire confidence in others, even while we're not shorted on the unscrupulous, villainous side that dominates his character.

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