If you haven't seen this film before, you've seen one like it. There is a lunatic at large, and he is driving an ice cream van. A young boy disappears and is believed drowned accidentally, although his body is not found. The police may believe this, and his parents, but his nanny knows better. Unfortunately she is the one the child's mother especially holds responsible because instead of watching her charge she'd been in a lengthy discussion/argument with her boyfriend who'd confessed to having it off with someone else.

Trying desperately to win her back he panders to her claims of foul play, the two find and break into the ice cream man's home, hoping to find what exactly? Then the bad guy reappears. To cut a long story short, he murders the boyfriend and kidnaps her. Well, it would have been a very short film if he'd murdered them both. Surprise, surprise, he is not simply a lunatic in the evil sense but delusional, because he thinks he can take her boyfriend's place.

That's about all you need to know. What happens next is fairly conventional but not totally predictable. What makes it so tedious is the long goodbye which is played out from the damsel's hospital bed. On the bright side, the soundtrack could have been a lot worse.

Jo (Kierney Nelson) breaks up with her boyfriend Ben (Dakota Morrissiey) because he cheated on her with someone who has normal eyebrows. Ben attempts to apologize profusely, but Jo wants none of it. When some clown (J.T. Chinn) kidnaps Elliot (Matthew Weidle) a child in Jo's care, it seems Elliot's mom won't accept Jo's profuse apologies. I liked this element of the film with the tables being turned...that and the gratuitous shower scene.

Other than that, the film lacks. The characters were flat. The cops were unconvincing. Dakota Morrissiey was pathetic by design. Our bad guy was a partial mystery, although there weren't any other suspects. He really didn't have much character. It looks like they spent their budget on toy monkeys with cymbals. Not as good as that other ice cream truck killer film series.

Guide: F-bomb. No sex Nudity (Kierney Nelson

Writer/Director Robert Henderson provides us a horror TV movie entitled "Kruel".It stars Kierney Nelson, Dakota Morrissiey, Adam Vernier and J.T. Chinn.Together,they tell a story about psychotic ice cream vendor that disguises himself in order to get close to the women that he is attracted to.But unfortunately,he is actually a psychotic and mentally disturbed killer.

Ben and Jo just broke up after the former admit to the latter that he cheated.This makes it hard for Jo to forgive her boyfriend.While Jo was working as a babysitter,Ben visits her unexpected.As they got focused on each other,one of the children that Jo is watching has evidently got lost.The police tried to search for the missing child but to no avail.Unexpectedly,Ben and Jo try to look for him just like the police did but unfortunately,they are led to a crazy ice cream vendor who is up to no good.

No question that the story was definitely simplistic.What made it worse is the performances of the leads namely Kierney Nelson and Dakota Morrissiey. The former played Jo and the latter played Ben.Too bad that they were somewhat amateurish.It was evident that both still are new to acting when this TV movie was made.Overall,it was a poorly produced TV movie.