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The Motive (2020)
A lot of running around for very little
A potentially fascinating case, but production levels that look like they came from someone's back shed, and a line of enquiry that goes nowhere and asks nothing, results in a lot of air and gossamer, and nothing else.
The Raincoat Killer: Chasing a Predator in Korea (2021)
Fascinating for all the wrong reasons
Ye Gods, this is like watching the Tiger King of serial killer documentaries. I have never, in my *life*, seen such a grotesquely, comically, inept and incompetent pack of Keystone Cops outside of, well, you know......
It's just jaw-dropping.
Serial Killer with Piers Morgan (2017)
An Incompetent Mess
It's a rare beast when you can watch someone interviewing serial killers, and it's the interviewer who comes across as the bigger a**hole. Morgan brings all his self-satisfied smugness, lack of touch, smarmy charmlessness, and forehead-to-wall finesse to a job that a high school criminology student could do with greater skill and deftness.
Never send an idiot to do a journalist's job.
Ted Bundy: Falling for a Killer (2020)
The way it should be told.
I've watched countless serial killer documentaries, and read countless books, and *this* is how it should be done. Bundy is the story, but he is not the narrative. Rather, he is the common thread that unites the testimonies of victims, survivors, and their families, and it is they who are at the forefront, telling us their experiences in their own words. It's heartbreaking, and compelling, and absolutely top-notch film-making.
Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez (2020)
It's the gaps that create the most interest.
An interesting approach to a murderer who is a complete boggle-- if ever there was a person who simply did not need to do what he did, it is Hernandez. The lack of direct input from everyone most directly involved leads to a mosaic approach to the narrative, much of it carried by inference or the build-up of circumstantial opinions.
There are no answers, and none are given, but the parade of people trying to protect themselves from proof of knowledge or shared culpability becomes a source of fascination in its own right.
Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1960)
As bad as it's possible to get
Holy hell, this just might be the most tedious movie ever made. Stunningly wooden performances, incomprehensible logic, a hero so incompetent he manages to get himself and the alleged love interest gunned down in the act of failing to attach a bomb that Wile E Coyote would sneer at to the one rocket the cardboard Russians manage to build.... the whole thing topped off with a portentous voice-over that constantly intrudes to tell us what the characters are doing, as they're in the midst of doing it.... all to tell us the story of how the Russians were secretly building a brand new terror-weapon that the Germans had successfully built and used a decade previously.
You know a movie's bad when even the MST3K crew struggle to make enough fun of it. When they actively complain about how bored *they* are, it's a World Champion Stinker.