Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Teddie Blake The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

indian_on_a_harley I can't for the life of me figure out why Hollywood can't seem to make a GOOD movie about such incredibly fascinating stories. True life has given us amazing material in characters like Ted Bundy, The Manson Family and in this case Charles Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate.... And yet the screenwriters deliver tripe like this. WHY?? You had sooo much to work with!Looking at other reviews, I need not go into many of the film's details here, except to add a few comments....Yes.... The movie was shot on location in Acton & Lancaster, CA - NOT Nebraska. I could tell instantly, as I grew up in Lancaster and lived near the Nebraska/Wyoming border for over 10 years! The two barely even resemble one another. That seems to me to be a stupid mistake that could have and SHOULD have been avoided.Others here have recommended the movie "Badlands" instead. I would caution any reader that BADLANDS WAS BASED ON THE "IDEA" OF THIS CASE - NOT THE FACTS!! .... Whatever merits Badlands has as a film (and it has FAR more than this movie), it is not about this case. The characters aren't even named Charlie & Caril Ann. Badlands is a work of fiction "inspired by" this case. I just felt that someone here needed to point that out.And on a film-related note.... Those like myself who love the true crime genre should go out of their way to avoid the obnoxious garbage that has flooded this otherwise fascinating arena in recent years. Namely those "one-name" films such as this one that you find on video shelves like "BUNDY" or "GACY" or "DAHMER". All of them complete garbage not worth the disc they're burned on. To call them factually inaccurate would be kind. It is painfully clear that the director and writers never even so much as cracked a book on ANY of those cases. They knew nothing whatsoever about the people they were portraying!! Stay clear of them all!!Recommended viewing in the true crime genre....On Ted Bundy: The Deliberate StrangerOn The Manson Family: MANSON by Robert Hendrickson (AWESOME!!)On The Zodiac Killer: ZODIAC by David Fincher (A few inaccuracies, but a top notch cast & cinematography make up for it)As far as Charles Starkweather & Caril Ann Fugate go, I'll recommend the same thing I would for any of these cases.... See a documentary!! You're always going to get as close to facts as possible and a much better production every time - guaranteed.--

lastliberal I have seen some bad movies before, but this takes the cake. 90 minutes of my life wasted - gone forever- down the drain. What I thought might be an interesting story about a serial killer was so bad that it was painful to watch.Shannon Lucio (from the OC) and Brent Taylor gave totally uninspiring performances that appeared devoid of feeling. What little dialog they had was useless. This film could have been made as a silent and it would't have mattered.I should have know something was going to be wrong when the two met in December and he is getting yelled at in January for getting her pregnant. "She's as big as a house," yes her father. I kid you not.Finally, the chase scene at the end was absolutely the worst I have ever seen. I could have beat them on a bicycle. He was going so slow that even though he had the window down, he was able to light one of his Strikes. Starkweather kept trying to pass on the right when there was no oncoming traffic! I want my 90 minutes back!

cymru-8 First off, I have lived in Lincoln most of my life and I lived through the days of the killings. I know what went on. Now let's get down to the film. This is a very low budget film and it shows in every way possible. You are forever seeing microphones and set people on the screen. The cars are the wrong years. The killings started in December of 1957 and ended in January of 1958, yet the trees and other plants all have green leaves on them even though Nebraska is very cold in winter. They have Lincoln in the desert of what could be Arizona or Nevada while Lincoln is in fact located in typical Midwest farm country and is hundreds of miles from the nearest desert. They show Lincoln as a very small town when it was around 100,000 or more people at the time of the killings. The one real picture of Lincon in the film shows the capital building with fountains in front of it, even though the fountains were put in on what was once 15th street and is now called Centennial Mall many years after the killings. It shows Starkweather being captured in Nebraska by the Lancaster County Sheriff when in fact he was captured near Douglas, Wyoming by local Wyoming law enforcement. I could go on and on. There are just too many mistakes in this movie to list. To it's credit they did get the names and order of events right, but that's about all they got right and that's why I gave it two stars.The story of the killings does deserve to be told in a movie and one that would be factual and show the fear the killings put in the people who lived though them, but this is not that film. If you want to learn about the killings and what they did to the city just do a web search for the name Charles Starkweather and you will learn the real story. If you want to watch a movie with so many mistakes you'll be laughing at it from beginning to end then watch this movie.

Don3620 For all those who complained about killer boom mikes the copy I saw didn't have any but then I wasn't looking for them. There was a comment from someone in Oz that stated that they all sounded like southerners not mid westerners. In post-depression Nebraska and Kansas out in the country they were poor and uneducated for the most part and thats what they sounded like to me.Now for the good stuff. There is a very nice set of articles amassed by Court TV in their crime library. All you have to do is a Google search on Charles Starkweather. It's under mass and spree murderers. I only looked at this movie to see if it had stayed true to the facts. And as far as I can see it has. (except for the mentor appearing every now and then). They didn't glorify his deeds or anything like they did in the "loosely based" movies like Natural Born Killers etc. They pretty much stayed with the facts and what I remember reading in the newspapers back in 1957-1959. So like the rest of the U.S. we read about it in the morning and evening papers when all of this was happening. When I saw the American Justice documentary on this a few years ago it was stated that when she got to prison a kindly matron took her under her wing and made sure she got a proper education and turned her into a nice young lady so if she ever got out she would have something to work with on the outside. At her parole hearing in 1977 (at which members of the families also testified) The matron and the wardens testimony must have carried a lot of weight because she was paroled after spending over half of her life in prison. And from what I understand from that documentary she is leading a useful and productive life. Caril Ann Fugate is only 18 months younger than me. So if anyone really cares about the facts and not just the content and acting in the movie what I saw was good.