I'm seriously speechless! And not in a good way! How could you have such a great opportunity to portrait one of the most notorious serial killers of all time and ruin it this badly is just beyond me!
First of all, the performance of Brian Dennehy was completely wrong! Gacy was known to be so friendly, helpful, an outstanding member of the neighborhood, etc. He wasn't a raging angry bull the way they showed him to be in the movie, He tried being cooperative during his house arrest, he invited the officers on surveillance to bars, restaurants, and to his own house, he was friendly with them. Yes, he did try to sue the police towards the end when being being watched exhausted him, but he wasn't aggressive with anyone on the force or threatened them the way it was shown in the movie.
The victims. Esp his last victim. Why did they change the name of the guy??? I mean, this is supposed to be a biography... Why change the names of key victims? Ok, maybe for the families' sake or smt, but still! They didn't even get the events surrounding the killings right!
What was that with the police NOT WEARING GLOVES during examining evidence in Gacy's house upon the first search?!?!?!!?! Seriously?! They were bagging them with their bare hands! It was so cringe worthy and my mind was screaming "YOUR FINGERPRINTS ARE ALL OVER THOSE THINGS NOW!", That was an unforgivable mistake considering that the whole movie was about the investigation!
A PSYCHIC???????? REALLY??? I cannot believe they added this dramatization! Why not also use an ouija board to communicate with the souls of the victims to know where they are while they were at it! What were they thinking!?!?!?!?!
If they only just did their homework and got the actual details on the whole thing! It was all twisted and a lot of things missing, and a lot of other things were presented horribly wrong!
Where is the part where Gacy was drunk on his last day of freedom and confessed to murders? Where is the part where he makes the real confession of everything in detail the day after? Where is the part where they were dragging the victims out of his house? That was on the evening news! Not like it was too gruesome to be added or anything! Just too many parts missing of everything that it made me extremely mad!
I went in thinking I'd finally watch something where it follows Gacy and shows bits and pieces of what actually happened. I know it'd be too graphic to actually show the exact same things he confessed to doing, but at least some! And fine, if they wanted to just follow the investigation, the least they could do was to be authentic about it! They only took very little literally, like some sentences Gacy said, and yet even then they twisted the events at which he said them.
It was just too frustrating, too boring, unbelievably infuriating, and such a bad experience over all! I basically wasted 3 hours of my life on this so called "based on a true story" movie about Gacy's arrest. If anything, I recommend people to NOT watch it and find a good doc on this to watch. It was so bad, I haven't been angry about a movie this much in ages! Such a missed chance! I gave it one star cos that's the least you can give.... if there were a zero, I wouldn't hesitate one moment to give it to this ridiculous parade of an attempt at a story this intriguing.
First of all, the performance of Brian Dennehy was completely wrong! Gacy was known to be so friendly, helpful, an outstanding member of the neighborhood, etc. He wasn't a raging angry bull the way they showed him to be in the movie, He tried being cooperative during his house arrest, he invited the officers on surveillance to bars, restaurants, and to his own house, he was friendly with them. Yes, he did try to sue the police towards the end when being being watched exhausted him, but he wasn't aggressive with anyone on the force or threatened them the way it was shown in the movie.
The victims. Esp his last victim. Why did they change the name of the guy??? I mean, this is supposed to be a biography... Why change the names of key victims? Ok, maybe for the families' sake or smt, but still! They didn't even get the events surrounding the killings right!
What was that with the police NOT WEARING GLOVES during examining evidence in Gacy's house upon the first search?!?!?!!?! Seriously?! They were bagging them with their bare hands! It was so cringe worthy and my mind was screaming "YOUR FINGERPRINTS ARE ALL OVER THOSE THINGS NOW!", That was an unforgivable mistake considering that the whole movie was about the investigation!
A PSYCHIC???????? REALLY??? I cannot believe they added this dramatization! Why not also use an ouija board to communicate with the souls of the victims to know where they are while they were at it! What were they thinking!?!?!?!?!
If they only just did their homework and got the actual details on the whole thing! It was all twisted and a lot of things missing, and a lot of other things were presented horribly wrong!
Where is the part where Gacy was drunk on his last day of freedom and confessed to murders? Where is the part where he makes the real confession of everything in detail the day after? Where is the part where they were dragging the victims out of his house? That was on the evening news! Not like it was too gruesome to be added or anything! Just too many parts missing of everything that it made me extremely mad!
I went in thinking I'd finally watch something where it follows Gacy and shows bits and pieces of what actually happened. I know it'd be too graphic to actually show the exact same things he confessed to doing, but at least some! And fine, if they wanted to just follow the investigation, the least they could do was to be authentic about it! They only took very little literally, like some sentences Gacy said, and yet even then they twisted the events at which he said them.
It was just too frustrating, too boring, unbelievably infuriating, and such a bad experience over all! I basically wasted 3 hours of my life on this so called "based on a true story" movie about Gacy's arrest. If anything, I recommend people to NOT watch it and find a good doc on this to watch. It was so bad, I haven't been angry about a movie this much in ages! Such a missed chance! I gave it one star cos that's the least you can give.... if there were a zero, I wouldn't hesitate one moment to give it to this ridiculous parade of an attempt at a story this intriguing.