I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

I could easily say the acting is bad, blah, blah blah, but I'm not going to criticize that. Teens masturbate, it's a normal part of growing up. The kid in the movie doesn't masturbate, he just looks at the porn. He's 16 and hasn't seen porn until now. I don't know if this is true for everyone, but people have seen porn at 13 years old. The family is tearing apart all because of some bizarre porn addiction. When I was exposed for watching it, my parents thought it was bad, but they did not go nuts, they just said stop doing it in a reasonable way. Justin is bullied in school for watching porn, in my school people accept that others watch it. Masturbation is a normal phase of life. This movie is awful and spreading false messages.

Yeah, it's a ridiculous story, but there's so much truth to it. Y'all are seeing it from the wrong angle.This story is not about a boy named Justin. It's about a hysterical, self- righteous, ultra-conservative wife/mother who combines the worst aspects of the right and the left in one personality. She has the ultra-conservative values with the flavor of the year (porn) in total Reefer Madness mode. This could've been about anything really, video games, rock music, TV, comic books, drugs, hipsterism, black metal, gambling, but it happens to be about porn this time. So she's all conservative without the "I'll pray for you" or "I'll ask Jesus for guidance" because in that space we have all the leftist crap, self-righteous indignation, moral superiority, double-standards, compartmentalization... with a tablespoon of 3rd wave feminism, or maybe just a pinch. This is a real problem. These people exist. I say that because I'm married to one. Yes, pornography has destroyed my life. Just like Justin, I used to watch pornography. Just like Justin, I watched some soft-core crap. Just like him, I watched it fully clothed and had a drink (1 single beer, once a week. This boy's caffeine addiction is a whole other thing).When my wife found out, she reacted the same as Diane (the mom). There's a scene where Diane tells her husband about it and he just says "okay, good night." The problem is that Diane lives in an alternate reality. She throws a fit and everyone does whatever she wants. She escalates this thing from "he watches porn" into "he's addicted to porn." She escalates it from a small private matter to one that needs therapy, an intervention, a Facebook group, calling Doctor Phil, national awareness campaign, Mothers-Against-Porn, and all the stuff that brings the most extreme leftists and rightists together in harmony.I come from a fairly conservative family. The way such things were dealt with was denial, small talk, church, more church, and pray that it goes away. Real liberal families ignore it, also give a quick safe-sex talk, or say it's fine, normal, healthy, whatever.But this woman is the product of two ideologically opposed cultures. The extreme left and the extreme right.The woman makes a big deal of this, involving her husband, her coworker, school councilor, the small brother, Starbucks employees, her credit card company, the gardener and anyone who follows her on Facebook. The world is a messed up place. This film is not a moralizing after-school special. This is a statement about the messed up state of the country. The younger brother plays GTA for God's sake. He's like 11 years old. The parents have no money. Justin needs to swim to get an education. The younger brother has no hope in athletics or intelligence (he burned a porn CD, wrote the label "virgin vaginas" and left it next to the computer. Too late for this one). The parents can't even afford a vacation. The husband is so scared of his wife that he tells her he's a lucky man, that he would never look at any porn or fantasize about anyone else. He lives in constant fear of his wife who drove her own son to suicide. Nopes, not exaggerating, this really happened.The parents pressure their kid into athletics and scold him for finishing 3rd in a national competition. The boy's girlfriend is a bible-thumper and she's retreating to religion. A young girl in school is making child pornography, perhaps to make ends meet? Still not making this up. No one in this film can spell. No one. The education system has completely collapsed, so webcam stuff and swimming are the only avenues left.Justin has a serious caffeine addiction. His parents can't afford to go on a vacation to a bed and breakfast. In this bleak country Justin finds solace in soft, soft, soft porn. Basically girls showing their arms, ankles, bellies. And the mom loses it. She gets everyone on her side, even getting the indifferent dad to threaten his son with physical abuse in public. (He was going to punch him in the head. Not threatened, he actually was going to do it). The mother used the dad as her trained attack hound and he ignored his own, STATED ideas about the thing to follow orders from his master.They way the mom behaved is exactly the way my own wife behaved. I did not hide the porn, I really didn't think she would behave like that. Her brother and dad go to a strip club with the guys, maybe twice a year, but she brushes that off as "them just blowing off steam." I don't go because I don't really like them much and I'm not into strip clubs. But my watching of an hour of porn, while building a guitar and having a single beer is "an addiction." "God knows what else goes down there." It's a workshop with tools and sawdust. What do you think happens?Anyway, my wife did the same stuff, involve everyone, marriage councilor, Facebook groups, tell her family, intervention. She's 27, so there's no jealousy excuse. But if I made the movie you'd all say that it's bull. This movie, as ridiculous as it sounds, is probably based on a true story with some tiny alterations. So yeah, I had to watch this film in my workshop because heaven forgive if her majesty walked in and saw this thing, seeing herself in the mirror/on the screen.It's all the liberal crap we're all used to + the conservative crap I'm used to without any of the Jesus saving me from all this part.

Not just a movie mind you, but one of the funnest "things" I've ever seen... And the other user comments and the discussion board only make it all the more gut busting funny... Guy is addicted to Internet Porn... and he lusts after his mother, his religious girlfriend, and a Senior Slut named Monica who has a sexy web site... ya ya ya voom.... And she even meets him at the soda shop and lets him touch her boobie, even though she has a bad ass boyfriend who kicks our hero's ass in the end after she bangs her head and blames it on him after he can't seal the deal with her. Then when the boyfriend goes to kick his ass she's all "no no baby..." Anybody else notice that Monica the slut was played by Nicole "Dicker"? I mean if there is such a thing, and what computer guy hasn't spent the long nights in front of the Internet, most Internet porn you're looking at stuff a long long way away, probably in another country, and this guy is lucky and actually has a willing slut not only in the same town, but the same HIGH SCHOOL!!! It would have been a much better movie if it would have been about Monica's Internet sex addiction, after all she's the one with a naughty website and not just looking at porn like our boy. I was actually hoping when she hit her head and that long line of blood spilled out that she'd die and that he'd get convicted for murdering her after becoming obsessed by her naughty website; would have made a much better movie than the self-baptism that occurs instead.And Kelly Lynch wasn't so self-righteous when she was getting it from Patrick Swazi in Road House and showing her naked "porn" body. And she goes ape over our boy's porn when his brother is playing GTA and she says nothing. Anyhow, this movie is still a great laugh if you're a slacker like me with nothing better to do.

"Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life" is the type of Lifetime picture that premieres every once or two weeks dealing with the same matter about kids getting involved in adult activities and or partaking in adult materials. Obviously, given the title, the film is no different. This movie tells the tale of a successful high school sophomore that develops a deep, unhealthy obsession to internet porn. While this film has it's heart in the right place it is, at times, unintentionally laughable, so laughable that you would think it would have made for a good Saturday Night Live parody.As stated, this is not a bad film it's just that it feels uneven in some scenes. For example, when Justin Petersen's(played by Jeremy "Peter Pan" Sumpter)mother is talking to his father asking him if he fantasizes about other women, he replies back "Honey you fulfill all my fantasies and not just the sexual ones." Now when the writers wrote that line did they think that people would actually take that line of dialogue seriously? It is as if they couldn't think of nothing else to write so they decided to add that line in the script to further enhance the boy's growing problem with porn addiction.Another major flaw in this movie is that, the characters often did stupid things where you just wanted to yell at the TV, "Are you really that stupid?" Tell me how all of a sudden the school slut/popular girl, who happens to be a senior, would take interest in a shy, quiet goody goody sophomore. Also, would a person be that obsessed with porn that they would watch it, on their palm pilot while at a swim meet around hundreds of people? It just doesn't make any sense. I know in movies, you suppose to suspend disbelief but are they expecting us to buy this stuff?? Above all "Cyber Seduction" message is intended to be strong but it falls by on the wayside. Though not a bad film, whenever you need a good laugh be sure to check this one out.