Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

Solidrariol Am I Missing Something?

Limerculer A waste of 90 minutes of my life

Inmechon The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

realfandangoforever 180629: If you're a serial killer aficionado like myself, this made for television movie might provide some entertainment. If you're not, you'll be better served finding another avenue.

Robert J. Maxwell Another made-for-TV serial killer movie "based on a true story" that tries to introduce one or two notes of originality into a cinematic pattern that is so nearly exhausted it's staggering on its pins.One such attempt is in the musical score. Ordinarily with a story about a serial killer, we'd expect violins tremolo until they shriek madly as the hatchet descends. Not here.As Dennis Rader, the "BTK Killer", Gregg Henry, in a completely satisfying performance, goes about his business of seeing to it that the community's lawns are properly mowed and that his victims are tortured, raped, and killed, and he's accompanied by some kind of Orff Schulwerk music filled with glockenspiels and a cute pizzicato melody. Well, why not? It worked in "Badlands." But when the rubber meets the road and there is action on the screen, Tree Adams, the composer, goes nuts and the air is filled with the loud racket of pots and pans being clanged together. It may be innovative but it's distracting too.Robert Forster does a decent job as the detective in charge but because of lax direction or some other reason he's not as convincing as he was in "Jackie Brown." He's given a voice-over narration that's stale. Something like, "I realized we had to go through this to be a better people." Ugh. It's too bad that the narration is so full of old saws and empty observations because the plot really needs something to tie the episodes together. The killings themselves aren't a problem because they're not lingered over and are only suggested in double- and triple exposure. But the timeline is warped. There were times when I didn't know whether we were in 1974 or 2004. No kidding.It isn't a memorable movie but Gregg Henry has the simple, innocent, friendly face of true evil down pat.

Spaceygirl Boring and bland, this made for TV movie about the famous BTK Killer Dennis Rader is ultimately unsatisfying. With such great material to work with, one would think this would make a great movie, with a real-life serial killer that took thirty years to be caught. The script is stilted, the dialogue bland and the cinematography....well, it looks like its been filmed with a hand-held cam-corder. Makes one feel quite ill! In more skillful hands it could have been so much better. Robert Forster and Maury Chaykin gamely plod along, doing what they can with scant material. TV's Michael Michele provides a bit of glamour for what is essentially an ugly little movie.Not very inspiring!

fsnyder-3 The Story of BTK was a complete misrepresentation of actual facts. In a rush to get a story out, MANY facts were blurred, or altogether made up. A scene retelling the 70's attempt to place subliminal messages in newscasts to have BTK contact the police is depicted as happening in 2005. Events happening in the daytime are shown at night. At one point it is implied that Wichitans were turning against each other as suspects to BTK. If anything, the community was unified in its desire to find the person responsible for terrorizing their families. The pivotal piece of evidence, the note relating to the floppy disk, is shown being found in the back of a truck at home depot, when it was actually thrown away at the employees home, but not disposed of. It was at their home that the evidence was found. Probably the most disturbing element of this story, is the minute amount of time spent on the victims. The story is alleged to be taken from Robert Beattie's book "A Nightmare in Wichita". If that was the case, the producers of this story would have known the bulk of this book was dedicated to telling the stories of the victims, not the killer. At least they got the letters B T and K right.........