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5/10
Decent movie, was it made for tv?
fluffchop30 August 2021
This played out like a typical made for TV true story (based on) type movie. I don't know how true to life any of it really was other than there was probably a girl and probably a doctor involved. The details of the doctors' activities are highly imaginative and I'm sure not based on reality. He's a knee surgeon, then a heart surgeon which I don't think happens. Maybe he's some sort of "GPS" general practitioner surgeon hahaha.

For what it is the movie was fine and I base my score on entertainment and watch-ability for a made for TV movie. I didn't turn it off so that's always a good sign. It does keep you watching to see what happens next so it's well directed. For the budget the script is good enough to get it done. The acting was also good. Worth a watch if it comes on TV one afternoon.
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5/10
The "God Complex" of Dr. Gary
lavatch21 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
He is a magician with the scalpel. Apparently, Dr. Gary Vincent can do no wrong under the brights lights of surgery. But he has a little problem with his obsession with Sarah Crenshaw, which defines Dr. Gary as the pervert that he truly is.

Sarah has had bad luck with men. While on the ski slopes, she observes her fiancé flirting with a young woman. As Sarah moves into her slalom, she turns back to see her beau grabbing the woman's fanny. Sarah then suffers a horrific leg injury as she tumbles through snow on the down slope.

After Dr. Gary performs the miraculous surgery on Sarah's leg the true nightmare begins. The doctor's obsession leads him to prescribe a weak pain killer to keep Sarah in a state of dependency on him. As she is starting a relationship with her physical therapist, Jake Drummond, Dr. Gary intercedes to drive a wedge in the budding romance.

A problem with "The Doctor Will Kill You Now" (a.k.a., "Doctor Death") was how slow Sarah was in catching on to the sick behavior of her doctor. Other characters sense his depravity, and the film became a real downer when Dr. Gary killed the likable Rosalind "Rosie" Golding, who was trying to warn Sarah. An even more disturbing killing occurred when the good doctor crushed poor Jake Drummond under the weight of an enormous barbell.

The sagacious Rosie recognized the "God complex" that exists with some doctors. Dr. Gary's grandiosity was apparent when he blurted out to Sarah, "I gave you life!!!" It was only due to the intervention of Nurse Paige Lambert and Dr. Randolf that Dr. Gary was stopped from using his circular saw in performing a needless amputation on Sarah's leg.

Sarah Crenshaw became both a pill popper and a lush in the course of the film. Yet, the denouement that finds a perky Sarah back on the ski trail seemed a bit hollow for the nearly catastrophic physical and psychic experience she had endured with Dr. Gary.
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good movie a joke of writing
dmichaelsKD21 August 2020
Supposedly has a broken leg and everything is torn according to one nurse. If everything is torn there was definitely no work done to fix the "torn" items. She has fractures in her leg but is never in a cast. She spends a month in the hospital for a broken leg. Ha!!!!

She is limping around and learning how to walk from a broken leg and I guess everything that was torn even though they never say what that means and no work was done on her knee so everything torn means her leg muscles?

Her parents are on the way, we never see them in the whole movie even though she spent a month in hospital. Her fiance never comes to visit her, he didn't know she saw him. He would have visited.

The same doctor that works trauma on a leg also works a double bypass for another girl, give me a break.

This doctor is roaming around watching her, this super surgeon seems to have a lot of free time.
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8/10
Great movie
crotonvixen29 September 2020
I actually liked this movie although I believe it should be a LMN (Lifetime Movie Network) movie. It is pretty predictable about what going to happen, except 1 part towards the end I didn't expect. If u like LMN movies u will enjoy this one.
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