really well done, but...

Rating: 7/10 (7 April 2006)

if the average American read 5 books in their lifetime "in cold blood" will most certainly and deservingly be one them. that said, if you didn't read the book or by some strange chance you didn't like it, i wouldn't recommend this movie. i could give a lot of criticisms, but they'd all follow roughly the same model of pointing out how well the movie is made then tearing it down for not being entertaining. this is the big problem, its just not entertaining enough and doesn't have a fast enough pace or clever enough plot and diologue to keep me entertained. now before I'm chastised by people telling me "you don't know good film making when you see it" or "you need to up the Ritalin dosage before you watch a movie that requires an attention span" let me just say that when i critic a movie the biggest point on which it pivots is entertainment and whether or not its worth watching a second time. this movie is just not that exiting and doesn't have much depth to it in the ideas its presenting. i give it a 7, really well done movie with a lot of my favorite actors in it and a topic i have a lot of interest in, but "meh, lets see what else is on." is what my inner movie watcher kept saying.