Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Boring

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

**SPOILERS** Filmed on beautiful and sun drenched Santa Catalina Island the made for TV movie "Island Prey" is a West Coast version of "Fatal Attractions" where in this case it's the wife not husband who gets caught in the eye of the storm of an illicit and deadly affair.Looking to buy a 80 to 100 foot yacht Parker and Catherine Gaits, Don Murray & Olivia Hussey, get involved with the island boat expert Peter Thorton, Anton John Dennison, who immediately takes a fancy to the sophisticated and sexy Catherine who reminds him of his late wife. With Catherine's husband Parker leaving the island for the mainland for an important business meeting Peter sees his chance in getting "Cathy", as he calls her, alone and in the shack on his private bachelor pad his all in one, bed drinks and video equipment, sailboat.Spending the night together, in the most intimate of ways, Cathy feels that her affair with Peter is just what it is a one night stand and nothing more. It's later when Peter starts to call, at her and Parker's home, and run into Cathy at ever opportunity that she feels that he's somehow stalking her. At first trying to be civil with the extremely annoying Peter Cathy tells him to please lay off and, as kindly as she can make it, get out of her life.All this talk by Cathy about Peter leaving her, as well as her husband, alone only emboldened Peter to the point where he starts to blackmail her with a video tape that he secretly took of them getting it on together on his sailboat that faithful and extremely satisfying, to Peter, evening. Cathy knowing that she's not as innocent as she would hope that she is in her affair with Peter goes to her and Parkers lawyer Jay Roth, Edward Asner, for help in getting the pain in the a** Peter off her back. Jay right away sees through Cathy's act as the innocent as the morning snow wife knowing, probably from experience in handling cases like her's, that Peters attraction to her isn't that one sided but in fact mutual.Cathy letting all this get out of hand, instead of coming clean with Parker, has her affair with Peter to go down the road to destruction for everyone involved. Parker finds out about his wife's infidelities after Peter slipped the video tape, after he slipped into Parker's home, of his wife and himself having a go of it into their VCR. This leads a distraught Parker to leave his sea-side home at Santa Catalina Island wishing never to see Cathy again. Parker gets a change of heart when he realized that Cathy, despite her cheating on him, was manipulated by the scheming Peter, who it turns out is suspected by the police of murdering his first wife, and confronts him on his sailboat at the Santa Catalina Marina.The fireworks from that confrontation leads Parker to have a near fatal heart-attack with him ending laid up in the hospital on life support. It's then that the very sure of himself Peter then makes his move on Cathy, who by now has no one to look after her, and that move turned out be fatal for the smug and self assured Peter Thorton.The better then you would expect acting, especially by Olivia Husse, in a made for TV movie as well as the beautiful scenic photography in and around Santa Catalina Island more then makes up for the films very well worn and predictable plot. Peter Thorton beside his good looks and devil may care attitude in making Cathy's, and later Parker's, life a living hell also wore the most immaculately cleaned and pressed, I had trouble spotting a single dirt mark or crease on it, blue leisure shirt I've ever seen.***SPOILER ALERT*** It's just too bad that he had to get it ruined, with a couple bullets ripping into it, at the end of the movie.

Unlike another user who said this movie sucked (and that Olivia Hussey was terrible), I disagree.This movie was amazing!!!!!! Olivia Hussey is awesome in everything she's in! Yeah she may be older now, because many remember her from Romeo and Juliet, but she's wonderful! This story line may be used quite often, but it's a unique movie and I'll fight back on anyone who disagrees! I enjoyed this movie just as much as I have any other Olivia Hussey movie. Olivia's "my girl" and I love her work.I saw this for the first time on Saturday (4/14/07) and fell in love with it. Not only because's it's an Olivia movie, but because of it's unique story line and wonderful direction.

The plot is plausible but banal, i.e., beautiful and neglected wife of wealthy and powerful man has a fling with a psychotic hunk, then tries to cover it up as the psycho stalks and blackmails her. But, what develops from there is stupefyingly illogical. Despite the resources that are available to the usual couple who has money and influence, our privileged hero and heroine appear to have only one domestic, their attorney and local police (who say they can do nothing) at their disposal while they grapple with suspense and terror. They have no private security staff (only a fancy security system that they mishandle), household or grounds staff, chauffeurs, etc. Not even, apparently, the funds to hire private round-the-clock nurses to care for the hero when he suffers life-threatening injuries, leaving man and wife alone and vulnerable in their mansion. Our heroine is portrayed as having the brains of a doorknob and our hero, a tycoon, behaves in the most unlikely and irrational manner. The production is an insult to viewers who wasted their time with this drivel and a crime for having wasted the talents of veteran actors Oliva Hussey and Don Murray (what were they thinking?). And, shame on Lifetime TV for insulting the intelligence of its audience for this insipid offering.

This 2001 made for TV film showed on LMN, naturally, as it seems all movies that are doomed end up on that channel. Seeing the likes of Don Murray, whom I like and respect his body of work, stoop to doing this trite was very sad. As also Ed Asner. Olivia Hussey was terrible in this and I wonder if she ever was a good actress. I couldn't stand her running around denying everything and then saying she was scared. Many times help was offered to her and she reneged. And that hair of hers. Haning straight down and too long made her look like a vampire. It was definitely not attractive. In fact most of the film she looked dowdy.William Riead wrote and directed this loser. Anthony Denison plays the lover with the emotion on a one level. You don't believe he really had any interest in her. And her looks wouldn't encourage anyone to want to have an affair with her. Totally unbelievable performances and wasted film with Asner and Murray not getting what they deserve as actors.