How Could a Movie With So Much Going For it End Up such a Big, Fat Bore?

Rating: 2/10 (10 March 2020)

I can't believe how many good reviews this movie got on IMBD, maybe users don't want to appear low brow, even anonymously? I don't get it. It's got everything going for it, a great cast, very realistic set and costume designs, rousing 60s soundtrack and a chilling real life serial killer. And I struggled to get past the first hour. The murder scenes are extremely compelling and the juxtaposition between the killings and the 1969 setting very early on grabs you and then completely falls flat. The problem is the story has no focus, it doesn't know if it wants to be a riveting historical crime drama or a character study of the men obsessed with solving the case and it's neither. I was very excited to turn off the endless corona virus fear mongering on the news and watch an engrossing true crime thriller. Now its back to the Corona Virus Show!