Monstruous Performing!

Rating: 4/10 (10 October 2004)

A real story of a prostitute (Charlize Theron) who suffered sexual abuses when she was a child, and decides to start killing every one of her clients. Also she falls in love with a girl (Christina Ricci) that meets in some gay bar.
Predictable and linear to death, the structure of Monster is more suitable for a TV Movie; the script is second-rate, and they hasn't racked their brains writing down those dialogues. It seems like Patty Jenkins' idea of a lesbian is something like a trucker driver or so... Anyway, the script, the dialogues, the stereotypes, the worst sex scene ever, the boredom of it all, are not the worst things about "Monster". The worst thing of this movie is that one for which they gave it an Oscar: Charlize Theron. Let's see: Theron seems to believe that if you fatten yourself, put on colour contact lens, shave your eyebrows, get some false teeth, and walk around just like if you were John Wayne itself, you have it made (and so they think there in The Academy) ... No ma'am! It does not work that way. You gotta have talent. All that I've watched in Monster it's Charlize Theron in disguise. She's just not credible at all, at any sequence. I don't see an evil-psycho-hooker, I see some histrionic-overacting fat girl moving just like a bullfighter. Anyone can dress up, get a whig, and so ... But only the best actors can bring those kind of characters to life. Actors just like De Niro, Karloff, Hofman, or even Nicole Kidman. As I've said before, Monster itself is nothing to write home about, but even it if were, Charlize Theron's performance would have ruined it all.
As for Christina Ricci, he does a good job as usual.
My Rate: 4/10