Cover Story (2002) User Reviews

EHHHHH!

[skarylarry-93400 · 5/10 · 17 February 2022]

Elizabeth Berkley spent the whole film running from people! Let me say this: no woman ever looked so. Good running! Worth watching just to see her run!!!!

Eye candy wrapped up in a poorly executed movie.

[casablancavic · 2/10 · 24 September 2018]

Yes, it's everybody's favourite schoolgirl from Saved By The Bell. Only this time - the bell won't save her. Get what I did there? Huh? Huh?

yeah - I made a sad joke - just like this drama, comedy, thriller, action - whatever you want to call it.

It's very poorly constructed with bad casting as the leads and supporting actors.

However, for a school class project film - this is alright.

Oops, big mistake - this was not a school class project. This was a professional project done by professional people earning a professional paycheck - and it still was boring and fizzled out.

Weak, lots of plot holes, bad performances, uninteresting - the only reason to watch this is because you want to see how Jessie Spano grew up and became an editor for a magazine, but then you realized that she should have stuck to stripping in Las Vegas.

This movie lots direction 3 minutes after it started - and it never came back.

Decent camera work though. Must give the camera operator credit where it is due.

Atrocious Casting

[garyvh-1 · 2/10 · 10 October 2006]

Elizabeth Berkley's acting was possibly the worst thing about the movie. No way could she ever come across as being a real editor. The other characters are shallow at best and leave the viewer unable to care about any of them. The plot line is average and, with a decent cast, would have raised my vote to average. The movie is characterized as being suspense but since the characters are so poorly acted, the viewer will probably hope that they all get killed before the film is over.

I see that 11% of the votes were 10's which could only have been friends and relatives of the actors. Truly horrible acting.

Not bad, not great

[mjanssens26 · 6/10 · 21 January 2021]

Yet another okay Hallmark/Lifetime-like mystery film. Surprisingly, Jason Priestley gives the worst performance of the trio of lead actors. Also, poor Costas Mandylor doesn't even have his name appear above the movie's on-screen title when he's as big a name as Elizabeth Berkley and Priestley when it comes to film. Aside from that, this is a made for TV mystery in which Berkley plays a woman who gets assaulted. She is then framed for the murder of her perpetrator. Berkley gives her usual okay performance and is nice to look at. Not the greatest TV movie, but certainly not bad. Available to stream on TUBI for quarantine 2021. Be warned -- the dubbing is off halfway through the film. Hopefully the current streamer host (Tubi TV) fixes it.

absolutely trashy movie

[guilfisher-1 · 10 January 2007]

Here's a case where the leading man is prettier than the leading lady. For certainly Jason Priestly out does Elizabeth Berkley in this department. I see this Berkley dame works a lot. Can't see why. I think she is terrible and definitely miscast in this one. I won't go into the story as it's so impossible to believe the actors in it. Ron Base wrote this and I wonder if he was happy with the casting. For certainly the story had a good possibility of success but for the casting of Berkley. She ruined the picture. The three people who did the makeup and hair had a challenge. She seemed to be made up like a whore. Much lip gloss and eye shadow, not to mention that stringy hair without any body. At times she resembled the wicked witch of the west. Lorna English, listed as wardrobe supervisor, should be commended. The only mention of costumes. For camouflaging our leading lady's large hips and backside. Wearing mostly black, skirts, pants and such, you could still see the enormity of her bottom. Have you ever seen editors with tops cut down to their kneecaps? It seemed every out was cleavage, what there was of it. Opening outfit was just embarrassing. White shirt open to her navel and a short short black skirt with a metal belt to advertise the width of her torso. The final outfit. jeans, really showed off her backside. Shot of her walking up stairs was too much. And the party dress, again cut won to the navel showed nothing desirable. I won't even go into the boxing outfit she wore. Those tights were not flattering. Truly a whore like look. And those spike shoes. Jason Priestly fared better in this and did what he could with a thankless role. He had warmth, sadly lacking in our heroine, and managed to pull off a one level role with some god acting. Costas Mandylor, playing our lady's assistant, did well playing the homosexual. He had some good moments as did J. R. Bourne as the brother. The men would have had a better time with a better actress to play opposite. Too bad as this could have been an interesting piece.