1/10
Save yourself the time and watch Dahmer
20 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
At first I assumed this is the director trying to make the movie feel tense but 10 mins in I realised it was just extremely poorly executed. Whilst exploring the decades of the 70s,80s and 90s there was no real difference in the setting or changes in the characters age. There was no back ground music to reflect on any of the emotions or to add any suspense to the scene and the first soundtrack I heard was at the very end.

Whilst discovering the first victim, the detectives already made a decision and evaluated the body on cause of death from looking at it for 20 seconds, would have been more realistic with making those assumptions after the autopsy.

There was no real emotion in the actors faces or the way they projected themselves. Everything was so robotic and there was no real emotion shown. Usually the audience tend to feel bad or sad watching something like this but the whole time all I could focus on is the poor acting which is a shame because it could have had so much potential.

There was no exploration of killers motives, any of the other killings except the one shown making the audience detached. As a watcher I would love to see this movie redone with in depth detail of each of the killings and focusing more on the killer and his day to day life in between the slayings ( was he an alcoholic? Did he have job? Were the any red flags to indicate this?),the detective side should show more in depth footage and evidence as well as props ( did this cause him issues in his marriage? Did he have trouble sleeping? Was it taking over his mind and making him unstable?)

There was no real police badges or police uniforms in sight or even cars, I want to see the full 15$ million police budget and how much staff they really had to use and recourses.

The scene in the woods chasing the killer was just hilarious it made me laugh, literally running in slow motion after a man who is the killer of many of the women and the biggest case of your career.

The reporter was annoying to look at, every time he asked a question his eyes came bulging out and it was hard to look at.

We skipped forward 7 years and during those 7 years the killers was actively killing which is shame they didn't explore and just skipped past to detective becoming chief police.

The 5 only settings were police station, detective house, killer house, the woods and ted bundys prison, making it very repetitive and not enough.

There's just so much to criticise and hard to put together but honestly save yourself the time and watch Dahmer.
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