THE ALPHABET KILLER
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Cast: Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes Rating: M for Violence and Coarse Language Tagline: Based on a true story.... DVD Release: September 22, 2009 Special Features: NONE |
Plot Synopsis, Review
Megan, an obsessively driven police investigator, and her fiance Kenneth, also a police officer, are both working on a grisly murder case. When the case can't be cracked Megan is pushed over the edge and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. Two years later she returns to work and another girl is soon murdered, convincing her the killer has returned, but with few leads and no key suspects will the 'Alphabet Killer' go free or can Megan pull it together in time to catch him?
Mediocre. The "based on a true story" tagline placed on any movie these days is a complete joke. What they really mean is "loosely inspired on real events" because the fact is that this was just a fictional story that's murder's are lossely similar. The film was quite boring, and apart from once or twice being thrown back by the loud score, the film really had no scary moments. Suspense, tension and mind games were aplenty, but the film failed in pulling off the resolutions to them, and the ending was a terrible and atrocious way to finish because it just made the film even more unsensational. Not once would I ever believe that this was inspired by true events.
"Rob Schmidt" directed by favourite film of all time, "Wrong Turn", but this film is a major dissapointment. His effort's at trying to put elements of props and useless nicks and nacks in clear view to try makes us suspicious was pointless and sometimes irritating. The plot, again, was dragged on and a pretty big exaggeration on what would happen in real life. All characters were unlikeable most of the time, and some were extremely underused.
The acting was mediocre. "Eliza Dushku" is amazing, but she was terrible at the start of this film, but then as it went along she seemed to be more believable. I can't take her seriously as a cop though, it just didn't work. "Cary Elwes" was extremely underused, and because of that, his characters always seemed suspicious.
Overall "The Alphabet Killer" is a huge dissapointment from the director of my #1 film "Wrong Turn", and it's unsuccessful in being scary or thrilling, and it's a sligh bore. My rating is 1.5/5
Mediocre. The "based on a true story" tagline placed on any movie these days is a complete joke. What they really mean is "loosely inspired on real events" because the fact is that this was just a fictional story that's murder's are lossely similar. The film was quite boring, and apart from once or twice being thrown back by the loud score, the film really had no scary moments. Suspense, tension and mind games were aplenty, but the film failed in pulling off the resolutions to them, and the ending was a terrible and atrocious way to finish because it just made the film even more unsensational. Not once would I ever believe that this was inspired by true events.
"Rob Schmidt" directed by favourite film of all time, "Wrong Turn", but this film is a major dissapointment. His effort's at trying to put elements of props and useless nicks and nacks in clear view to try makes us suspicious was pointless and sometimes irritating. The plot, again, was dragged on and a pretty big exaggeration on what would happen in real life. All characters were unlikeable most of the time, and some were extremely underused.
The acting was mediocre. "Eliza Dushku" is amazing, but she was terrible at the start of this film, but then as it went along she seemed to be more believable. I can't take her seriously as a cop though, it just didn't work. "Cary Elwes" was extremely underused, and because of that, his characters always seemed suspicious.
Overall "The Alphabet Killer" is a huge dissapointment from the director of my #1 film "Wrong Turn", and it's unsuccessful in being scary or thrilling, and it's a sligh bore. My rating is 1.5/5