After I promised myself not to rent any movies, which have fewer than 6 stars on IMDb, I made this my exception, because I found this movie in the .99c store, and I am glad that I bought it (now, don't you all rush to the .99c store - it is probably closed or the movie is sold out by now). The plot is simple - "lets just try to tell the story of Gacy", and because they simply "tried" wasn't good enough for this plot. In other words - I am sure that in real life, they must've had FBI on this one for a long time, yet the movie only depicts the local policeman, which is kind of boring. The acting was done well by all characters, which makes this definitely worth .99c. The problem was the directing, editing, production - this movie was definitely not thought out good enough, but I have seen worse. The director should have chosen better script, better score, better layout, locations, costumes etc. The editor should have chosen better timing in his editing, because as it is, at times - it makes people confused. Nevertheless, just like other better attempts to portray serial killers, a better one would be: "Henry - a Portrait of a Serial Killer" - this is a very risky genre. The safest way to go, is it to make it into a documentary. However, at the end of the day - it only seems to work if the characters are fictional, That way we can completely separate from our minds: the serial killer and his "normal" life. And that is how we will be left with the gruesome picture of a different species. Then we can see that in his mind, he is either becoming or he already became a creature from a different world - to fuel our fascination with the mysterious works of the mind. From this movie, we get just a tiny glimpse of it. So we are left left begging for more. But that is still a downfall of this movie. Anyways - at the end you can still stand up and exclaim: "this is a true serial killer." And that is why I give this 6 out of 10.
Review of Gacy
