Telling the story of true crimes in films can be riveting and profound. Examples are In Cold Blood, Ten Rillington Place, even Bonnie and Clyde. The theatrical release of this movie is hard to research. It's likely viewers would have walked out or promptly fallen asleep. Distributors were wise to skip this one. It seemed to have no connection to the true Dahmer story. The extremely slow pace and self-conscious shots of Dahmer just sitting in a chair were enough to drag down any well-intentioned effort. Somewhere in here is the seed of a good movie -- and that's what is sad, disappointing, and downright annoying. There was an intriguing and tragic story here, but was sadly lost on this sorry, soft relating of what could have been a hard-hitting and informative film.
