Everything that comes before is rote and by-the-book, from the groan-worthy innuendo-laden puns to the two-dimensional cookie-cutter characters, it's a color-by-numbers thriller that's flat.

Careful What You Wish For is the unwanted child of Porn and Lifetime made-for-TV movies.

Plays like a painfully stilted high school production of "Fatal Attraction."

As a purported erotic thriller, it's neither particularly erotic nor remotely thrilling.