Yes, it's low budget. But you go in knowing that. I've tried dating sites but only once downloaded the associated app and felt like I was being harassed. Way too frequent messages; everyone wants to meet instantly; they quickly feel like stalkers when they either can't take no for an answer or think they have some claim over you. One thing is for sure: No dating app should allow a person to actually see the location of another. In this film, however, Anna finds out a guy is stalking her that could have ended much worse if she had gone on obliviously thinking he was benign.

The story is well-meaning but not presented in the most engaging way. They kill the father in the first scene to try and set up a broken, dysfunctional family dynamic but they don't really pull this off very well. The film tries too hard to point fingers at every male character and goes out of its way to dole out lines to dismiss Anna's concerns. This film is not on the artistic high-level that allows the actors to convey the real emotions, fears, and perceptions. As it stands, though, it's a watchable modern tale, sort of a Kate and Ashly meet Criminal Minds ambition. And if I could just mention, Anna's hair is a split-end nightmare the whole film until the very last segment. Was that intended to make her seem happier now or was that just a great change from a bad hair stylist to a professional one? I recognize some of these actors from mostly bit parts in tv shows. Arthur Napiontek (Jake) is the only really hot guy in the film.

And for those who don't already know: You should never give identifying details on a dating app (family name, location, school, business) until you have talked on the phone and decide to meet. Then start with small talk. If a guy goes right to the "So where do you work, what school, who was your last boyfriend, or what kind of car do you drive" those are too personal for a stranger to know about you and are clear signs they want to know your monetary value instead of getting to know you.

I found it annoying that the film shows these adult women constantly obeying the ping of their phone. When I was in college, we turned off our devices while in class. There was no tolerance of seeing someone look at their phone during a lecture and a serious college student wouldn't stop every 2 minutes to see whose pinging them during homework.

So, what is the moral? I'm stumped. Perhaps someone is tired of hearing all the criticism of dating apps and wanted to do a film where it turns out to be a hero, of sorts. Or maybe the film is saying that someone who appears needlessly paranoid might be experiencing real danger. I think it's definitely exposing the immaturity and peril of using these apps with a careless attitude. I'm giving it a 6 but probably more like a 5.5.

Lifetime Network type movie (maybe it was) but I liked it because they introduced a lot of suspects and built cases for them. About half way through, I paused and thought of all the suspects and their possible motive and made a guess. I was wrong on my first guess and learned it was my second option. I would encourage those watching to do the same thing as I did to add some fun to this.

I still don't know what the dad's death has anything to do with anything. I kept trying to figure out if it would be linked to the suspect, which would have given motive that was unknown to the viewer. That would would have made this more clever.

Maybe I missed something.

In the Taylor clan, Anna and Sasha are thick as thieves as sisters. Sasha has settled in with a steady boyfriend named Matt while Anna is still suffering the effects of her break-up with Nate. After Sasha introduces her sister to a new dating ap, Anna finds herself on the receiving end of a potentially violent stalker, who is able to monitor her movements through the technology of the Swipe ap.

A fairly substantial list of male candidates for the stalker includes Jake, who tried to slip a "roofie" into Anna's wine; Nate, her old boyfriend who has come back on the scene; Pete, a new acquaintance whom Anna met on Swipe; the oily Professor Murphy, Anna's creepy law professor; and Matt, Sasha's boyfriend who is a computer geek. Of course, the police are not successful in tracing the menacing textsmessage, and it will be up to the sisters get the stalker to crawl out of the woodwork.

An overarching theme of the film is the bonding of the two sisters and the affection for their reclusive mom, who withdrew from the world after the death of her kind husband in a random act of violence. Anna and Sasha are still reeling from the tragedy that changed their lives. The mom has stopped her treatment with Dr. Fink, whom she considers and idiot. But she is so fearful that she cannot leave the house.

An essential reference point in the film is the law professor's lecture on "mens rea," the concept of discovering guilt through understanding the thought process of the criminal. A guilty mind is the prerequisite to a guilty suspect. Along with the cops, the sisters never really take "mens rea" to heart in sizing up the men in their lives to discern who is the sociopath.

The most touching moment in the film was when the homebound mother finally emerges from her lair and begins a genuine healing process with her daughters. She recalls a sensitive moment with her late husband when she asked him whether he prefers her vanilla cake or her lasagna. His response was that it was exactly like his feelings about his two beautiful daughters, Sasha and Anna: he loves both of them equally.