My Twin’s Madness, the thriller review

Following the dramatic death of her father, who died in an accident for which she believes she is directly responsible, Tracy Wrey was left so devastated that she lost her mind and was admitted to a psychiatric institution. She has been locked in there for fifteen years now and one day Jennifer, her identical twin like a drop of water, visits her. There Tracy attacks her and while she is unconscious she makes a quick change of clothes, slipping away from her facility, passing herself off as her healthy sister.

In My Twin’s Madnessthe diabolical plan incredibly succeeds perfectly and Tracy finds herself a live the life of a kinsman and to manage not only her professional career as a writer but also her turbulent relationship with her teenage daughter. Meanwhile Jennifer tries in vain to convince doctors and physicians that I’m not crazy and her actual identity, Tracy begins to suffer again from psychotic attacks that become increasingly stronger due to a series of complicated and dangerous situations, in which her twin was unwittingly involved…

The madness of my twin and everyone else

A film like this, even in spite of its less than stellar production values, needs a solid script that pushes the viewer not to stop after ten minutes and to continue watching, driven by curiosity about the characters’ fate and who is lying and hiding secrets of various kinds. The madness of my twin Unfortunately landslides right from its daring premisewith the prologue already making clear the flaws of an unlikely and cumbersome narrative. It is completely unthinkable that doctors and nurses are unable to notice the differences that exist between the two twinswho although physically identical – as they are played by the same actress – have a diametrically opposed character. A very gross error that will cost the lives of some secondary characters and then resolve itself in an annoying “bite and wine” epilogue, where everything the blood shed seems to have been forgotten not only by the protagonists but also by the police or whoever acts on their behalf.

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A well-known approach

The style is typical of the productions Lifetime, and anyone who is familiar with the trademark of this overseas television network, specialized in films for the small screen, already knows well what they will encounter. The first seconds introduce us with a certain vehemence to the background that will characterize the subsequent running time, centered precisely on the dualism between these two female figures who despite sharing everything couldn’t be further from each other. But even in the management of the aforementioned the narrative plot forces the hand excessively, with a twist that it borders on the absurd and which tries to surprise a spectator who probably at that point had already completely lost his compass, between exchanges of identities and secrets of the past that progressively come to light in flashbacks that are at least improvised.

Inside and outside

The main problem of The madness of my twin in any case it is the outline. Apart from the aforementioned lack of health care personnel, the numerous secondary characters that revolve around the double protagonist, between married lovers and last-minute blackmailers, are also slave of illogical logicsince it is impossible for anyone to notice the exchange that took place only a few days earlier. The story thus drags on by inertia, with the staging by the director Dylan Vox which exploits almost all of the anonymous insiders, ready when necessary to focus on close-ups of Nicole Marie Johnsonwho lacks the charisma and ability to properly differentiate their respective roles. Yet another weak point in an operation that is far more than ordinary.