Remarkably true and therefore frightening and maybe disappointing

Rating: 8/10 (1 December 2004)

Clint created some type of a monster with this movie. I've read many of the other comments on it, and they're all true to some extent, but what a lot of them seem to be missing is the fact that humans *do* behave like that in real life, they *are* as unpredictable as some seem to be in this movie, they *are* as annoying and rotten inside, or as stupid and disappointing as they are. This is, in my opinion, what makes this a remarkable movie; You will not like all of it, because there's a lot of stuff in life we won't like, and some of that is shown to us by these actors and delivered to us by means of this story. The portrait of real-life events is so direct and good, that it's actually scary. I've seen it both on the big screen as well as at home (just yesterday), and I must say it got to me a lot more when I saw it alone, with less distracting influences. It works better that way. I would sum it up as an exciting thrilling well-documented behavioral study of an average American city neighborhood's murder, but I don't mean that in a bad way. It can't really be described by anything, it's a must-see movie though.