Christopher
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Posted: February 24, 2004 at 12:00am
Starts out as your everyday serial killer movie. Aric kills people, a cop messes around with him, people at work begin to question him. But all along, Aric is a clever fellow. First off the way he talks is different for every situation. When he's narrating himself, he has a calm and sturdy voice with a self-confident attitude. When he's on the phone, he's laid back and talks like he's known that particular person for a long amount of time. In person, he's one of those cool guys everyone likes. Secondly, some of his ways of killing are quite ingenuous. The one that stands out the most is when he asked his neighbor to borrow some eggs. He took those same eggs, poked a needle sized whole in a few of them, and mixed in a heavy amount of codeine. Put them in a new carton and gave them back to her.
Once it gets a little deeper into the movie and Aric's stalking killer comes about, a gigantic load of sneakiness comes into play. Both of them breaking into each others houses, taking pictures of each other, spying on each other, along with several other things. One thing they play out is when the stalking killer challenges Aric. He kills people in a park and says Aric has to do better than that. Aric accepts and kills some people in a movie theater. Quietly making his way down the isles and killing them one by one. There's a little blood through out the film, not much violence, the nudity was Aric's ass (once) and one of his victims breasts (once).
Not much irked me in this movie thanks to the interesting story. Although there's always some. Aric's first victim is shown using the toilet. The sounds that were being made weren't the real deal. It sounded like someone got a bucket of water and dropped some coins in it then just looped that over the scene. Another one of his victims was wearing a WCW Nitro shirt. Not sure is it was some sort of statement, seeings how the company was dead just like this man was about to be, or what. Lastly, he set one of his victim's house on fire after killing him. Trying to get some sort of neat fire effect going, the screen turned black and about four inches from the screen came this animated fire that lasted not even ten seconds.
Again, major shout outs to the writer/director (Kevin Kangas) on this film. I'm not a fan of the serial killer films, but this one peaked my interest. No masks to hide the killers faces, no special weapon of choice that did the job every time, no women screaming every five seconds for no apparent reason, no horse poop invovled. Aric and the stalking killing did a nice job of acting. Can't say the same for the rest of the semi-small cast. No major gut gushing killings, so there wasn't much effects to ruin (except for that awesome animated fire they had rocking). The story made this movie, I can't stress that enough.
Final Conclusion: 7/10
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