Watching `Dahmer' is an upsetting experience. Not because of the movie's content, rather because of the lack thereof. The film concentrates more on Dahmer's homosexuality than his murderous nature, and though he is surely twisted, we don't really get into his mind enough to realize why, or to what extent. Renner is a great talent, and plays Dahmer to eerie perfection, but he cannot create what was never there - a compelling story. For two hours we bounce back and forth between Dahmer's adolescence and young adulthood, watching him prey upon innocent males, and then the movie ends without climax or resolution. One is struck with a sense of loss at what the movie could have been.
