Pretty much your average Lifetime TV movie.

Rating: 6/10 (25 June 2004)

(spoilers? crap it's supposedly based on real life. how can I spoil anything?? :)
I've been trying to watch every movie in the best actress field for the Oscar's. It's kinda like hey Charlize won. But I wanna know what I think is the best actress in that field. I was really rooting for Keisha Castle Hughes.
So far. 21 Grams completely surprised me. It's beyond depressing. Some of the movie is silly. But the acting was very good from a lot of folks in that movie.
So here I am on the main movie. Monster. And was a bit of a disappointment as far as acting goes. sure Charlize was okay. But her acting didn't truly take a nice shine except during the courtroom hearing at the very end.
The first half of this movie was pretty good. But after 55 minutes... they rush things. This is a rushed movie. It's about 30 minutes too short. They left our massive amounts of information I think was needed to make this movie work. I know it's basically a Hollywood trait to rush things or skim a story down (heck I really liked A Beautiful Mind. But it was knocked down a notch after finding out tons of info was left out. Which I won't get into here.)
The capture was especially stupid. Supposedly it was indeed a lot harder to catch Ailleen than in the movie.
The movie might have worked a lot better had it come out on Lifetime. And trust me... my mother has that on a lot and I catch a lot better movies on there than this one. And some are so real... I just don't watch em.
Someone here has made this woman seem like a pretty good girl. I'm assuming she isn't. And the movie seems to point some of the blame at Selby. Which I found to be rather mean
But the makeup was perhaps the worst. Sure it made Charlize look ugly. But she looks worse than the real Ailleen. It was overdone perhaps. Not only that. The makeup was clearly not applied to her arms.
Oh well. It's an okay movie. Just take this movie with a grain of salt. As it says in the credits. Most of the movie is ficticious. Except for Ailleen. Any similarity to people or places is unintentional.
(PS: I really liked the score. very good!!!)
6/10
Quality: 5/10 Entertainment: 5/10 Replayable: 3/10