When the daughter of a wealthy Texas mogul is threatened, weeks before her wedding, Tanya Harsin (Brooke Burns; Baywatch), a world class bodyguard, is forced to pose as one of her bridesmaids (hence the title). Tanya hates weddings and is reluctant to go along with the assignment but ends up doing it. Despite her brash professional approach to guarding her mark she ends up becoming emotionally involved when friendship and even love present themselves.

From the get go Undercover Bridesmaid is a terrible made for TV movie. Suspending disbelief for the horrible story writing and even worse acting requires viewers to do so at an expert level. For example, when an armed gunman tries to kidnap Tanya’s mark at the beginning of the film the gunman is stymied by Tanya and her Mark having a faux conversation about coffee and manners. When she’s forced to take down three armed men without the use of a weapon when the action began I was pleasantly surprised at how smooth the fight scene went. I actually prepared myself for something better, forgetting how awful the first few minutes of the movie actually were. Unfortunately the movie only got worse.

Tanya enters the high society world of squeaky pretty rich girls who get excited over shopping and hair styles and cute guys. Yawn. It’s like whoever was writing the script for this film just took the clichéd notion of what rich girls are like from films like Mean Girls and Clueless. The guys don’t fair any better, grabbing their personalities from the same film gene pool. Fashionably dressed, good looking and obsessed with women, money, and sports. It’s the clichéd template for how most teens and young adults fashion their lifestyle because they don’t know any better. It was unbearable to say the least.

Burns does the best she can with the role. Sadly her best has never been grade A stuff and her character wasn’t written for success. The part calls for a strong female character but Burns felt too overbearing in the role. It felt like she was imitating the mannerisms of a strong male lead. It was an unbalanced delivery that never provided a sense of feminism and strength at the same time causing the romantic element to hinder to the more rough aspect of her character. I just couldn’t see her in a romantic light.

In short, Undercover Bridesmaid has pretty much everything wrong with it. It tried to hard to be anything but a crappy made for TV movie and just ends up embarrassing itself due to every element that makes up a movie being genuinely poor. As always final judgment is yours.