Glorified movie of the week

Rating: 4/10 (27 December 2004)

This was not the awesome movie most claim it to be. It is a Lifetime movie of the week with more gore and violence. This movie and Erin Brockovich are two prime examples of Oscar buzz movies that do not live up to their expectations.
HBO showed a documentary on this subject that was much more interesting. I never watched the entire movie and tuned out about 40 minutes in. Surprisingly my wife did not watch the rest of the movie either, this from someone who watches every movie to completion. She deleted the movie and did not even FF to the end! Charlize really did look like that monster, but why? There was no need to do the bra & panty shots. She could have worn the same outfits and completed this role with out the weight gain. This was not the tremendous work that De Niro pulled off in Raging Bull!