The Boston Strangler: The Untold StoryRated R
Running Time: 1 hr 31 mins
DVD Release Date: July 22nd
Cast:
David Faustino
Andrew Divoff
Kostas Sommer
MY REVIEW
No need going into too much detail about this wonderfuly boring film. The thing is, I felt this movie was trying to be a straight-to-DVD version of the incredible film, Zodiac. It totally swung and missed. This is the supposed "untold story" about Albert DeSalvo; the man who was apparently coerced into telling the authorities he was the Boston Strangler. The thing that seperates this from Zodiac is we get no insight into the actual Boston Strangler. We never meet any potential suspects other than the fake DeSalvo. We get glimpses of the investigation led by the obsessed detective played by Andrew Divoff (who some may know from TV's Lost). But his character never seems to be on any kind of right track. DeSalvo is so one dimensional. We don't give a crud about this guy in the least. We don't know anything about his past life that would create this monster inside him. He's a bad person, and dersevedly was in prison, but I just have to wonder how authorities believed his story. Maybe thats the other part of the untold story, that we don't get to see ever. In the end, I had almost no new knowledge of the Boston Strangler, I was bored to tears. This isn't an awful film...just not a good one.
Mikey @ The Movies Official Rating: *1/2 out of *****
*This is the 78th new film I've seen and reviewed this year.
*This film is now on DVD.
*Straight-to-DVD released films do not qualify for my awards.
Mikey @ The Movies Official Rating: *1/2 out of *****
*This is the 78th new film I've seen and reviewed this year.
*This film is now on DVD.
*Straight-to-DVD released films do not qualify for my awards.
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