When the Bough Breaks

Give us a When the Bough Breaks with smarter direction.

A neutered, paint-by-numbers snoozefest.

A lazily written and generically directed Fatal Attraction knockoff.

The plot doesn't differ much from last year's parody of these types of movies, A Deadly Adoption ...

Writer Jack Olsen's glossy script goes light on logic, credibility and mining some of the story's deeper ramifications, as it works its way toward the inevitable, largely predictable final showdown.

Perhaps you were wondering if it were still possible to wring any suspense out of an unbalanced-third-wheel plot. "When the Bough Breaks," about a surrogate pregnancy gone horribly wrong, has a definitive answer: No, it isn't.

It was incredibly boring.

This could've been so much more interesting. It really could have.

The worst kind of thriller -- one where seemingly smart people keep doing dumb things over and over and over.

We have seen this same story over and over again and this movie does nothing to give us any new twists.