Great acting but not much else

Rating: 6/10 (4 February 2004)

There's a reason Charlize Theron was nominated for this movie but nothing else was. That's because the rest of the movie is very ho-hum. The script fails to examine fully the Aileen character. We get a surface explanation of she was abused and it is left at that. From what I have read on the real case there was much more to this case then the movie let on. It would have been more fascinating to see Aileen after she was incarcerated and try to explain her actions. A shallow movie with great a great central performance.