True crime, in all its forms, has held a firm grip on viewers, listeners, and readers alike for decades. But with the rise of streamers and podcasts, it’s been taken to a whole new level. Movies about serial killers in their youth, and then a Netflix series about that same killer and the beginning of his years-long killing spree. We just can’t get enough of murderers it seems! They’ve moved mostly over to television, be it a dramatized miniseries or docudrama.
The film very much evokes David Fincher’s magnum opus, Zodiac. Boston Strangler would have been a believable 2008 release as it feels like one of those copycat films made a year after a major hit. The grim greyish filter, the equal focus on the journalist’s home life and their reporting. It all calls back to Zodiac and Robert Graysmith’s descent into madness to find some answers about the Zodiac killer. But, there is no David Fincher here.
Even two of the most established actors working today can’t salvage the shoddy script. Keira Knightley has always been comfortable in historic drama, whether it’s as the lead or as a scene-stealing supporting role . She does her best with what she’s given, but that’s not a whole lot. In these kinds of films, a personal subplot for the protagonist is always needed to up the ante.
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