Good acting but why?

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2004)

Having seen this movie for the first time recently a few things came through my mind. Firstly the acting performances. Christina Ricci and Bruce Dern were superb in their respective roles but i was disappointed by Charlize Theron's role. OK sure looked like the women and maybe got the killers mannerisms down to a T, but i just felt that it was lacking something.
Also, i thought that the movie was trying to get us, the viewer, to sympathize with Aileen Wuoros plight, playing sad music during killing and in the end, but lets not forgot that the women was a serial killer and thus why should be sympathies with her? We don't care about Charles Manson, Peter Sutcliffe or Dr Harold Shipman(when he was alive) and they were all serial killers? Should they get a big budget movie made about them, then we will all be like "the system failed them, blah, blah, blah".
Overall the movie was full of good performances but the attempted sympathy attraction ruined it for me.
I would give it a 3 out of 5