cosmo_tiger Review of Lizzie Borden Took an Ax

Lizzie Borden Took an Ax (2014 TV Movie)

Never achieves the tense feeling it was going for. Very flat and emotionless, even for a made-for-TV movie.

[4/10 · 5 February 2014]

"I told you what happened. Do you think I'm hiding something from you?" During the summer of 1892 in the town of Fall River, Massachusetts a young woman named Lizzie Borden (Ricci)returns to her house and finds her father and step-mother brutally murdered. When the police begin to investigate all the evidence points to Lizzie. Her lawyer comes up with the only defense available. How could a woman kill anyone in that fashion? First of all this is a Lifetime movie so those of you looking for gore and horror can look elsewhere. The movie isn't bad but is glaringly obvious that this is a low budget made for TV movie. The story of this murder is very intriguing and is a good idea for a movie, but the fact that Lifetime did it really tones down what could be a great movie. Christina Ricci is the perfect choice for this role and she is really the only thing that saves the movie. Most of the movie is a courtroom drama which I usually love and the defense that a petite woman couldn't do this is very interesting and shows what the country used to be like. The biggest problem with this movie is that it never achieves the tense feeling it was going for. It is very flat and not as interesting as it could have been. As a side note the music choices were awful, when you watch it you will see what I mean. Overall, flat and emotionless, even for a made-for-TV movie. I give this a C.