This is Lifetime Channel Schlock, and frankly, it would be as forgettable as most of the genre, if it weren't for Christopher Meloni.
Meloni plays Mark Fuhrman of O.J. Simpson fame. He's believable in the role and much more likable than the real life Fuhrman. (who was, after all, a racist perjurer). I think the movie shows how Fuhrman's actions in the Simpson case went before him (A scene with an African American secretary and her disgust was particularly good), but it never really explores that background. Was he really a racist? Or was he just caught in a bad situation. Of course, Meloni is so likable you kind of don't care.
For the murder itself, the problem is, you only see it in flashback, and you never meet the suspects- the Skakel Brothers- in real time, as middle aged men who've aged since then.
Meloni plays Mark Fuhrman of O.J. Simpson fame. He's believable in the role and much more likable than the real life Fuhrman. (who was, after all, a racist perjurer). I think the movie shows how Fuhrman's actions in the Simpson case went before him (A scene with an African American secretary and her disgust was particularly good), but it never really explores that background. Was he really a racist? Or was he just caught in a bad situation. Of course, Meloni is so likable you kind of don't care.
For the murder itself, the problem is, you only see it in flashback, and you never meet the suspects- the Skakel Brothers- in real time, as middle aged men who've aged since then.