When you’re trying to watch one film a day, I guess the best way to do it, is play Eeny, Meany, Miny, Moe game and hopefully you've made a good choice. But with this film about the famous serial killer Ted Bundy, I would kind of in a sense be intrigued but when you realize that High School Musical star Zac Efron is playing Bundy then the intrigue level goes sideways to the point where it just fall flat when you see actors like Haley Joel Osment and Jim Parsons aka Sheldon Cooper in the movie, and I'm not going to lie I was really hoping that Sheldon was channeling is inner Sheldoness and arguing about Efron taking his spot. But will leave those joke in a little bit because I am officailly blown away when I did some Wikipedia searching and found out that Angela Sarafyan aka Clementine from Westworld. Hell, at first, I was like "WHAT ARE YOU KIDDING ME I HARDLY RECOGNIZED HER". But then the whole excitement faze just fades when I see Sheldon Cooper, Osments face and the one actress from the Mortal Instruments movie. So, let’s talk about if this Ted Bundy movie is a hit or a miss.
The Story, centers around a single mother Liz Kendall (Lily Collins) as she begins to date law student Ted Bundy (Zac Efron). But her world soon comes crashing down when she slowly begins to discover that Bundy may have committed some strong and monstrous crimes. Now that Bundy is in Jail trying to fight for his freedom does, he really tells the truth or is he trying to create more chaos wherever he goes.
I'm not going to lie Zac Efron's performance was okay but to be brutally honest I didn't see it as a game changing performance of a life time it was just a man who had a temper tantrum, who in his own bizarre mind is innocent. I mean sure you can show me real life footage of the real life Ted Bundy with the exact same thing Efron did, but to be honest I still don't see it as a great performance at all, part of the problem really in my eyes is that I have to at least see him commit these murders to actually believe in his craziness furthermore his insanity and yet they don't really show that, they just show a killer going to court through the course of the film moreover him escaping as well. So bottom line this was still a terrible performance out of Efron hell even Glenn Howerton (It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia) would have made a better Ted Bundy than Efron. The main problem I had with the film was the choice of actors in the film, and yes we've already addressed Efron as Bundy but we also have a list of actors like Haley Joel Osment and Jim Parsons, for which brings the problem of using type cast actors for which is really on the annoying side, furthermore if you’re making a movie that's on a serious side for about a hundred percent of the movie, make sure you have actors who can take this movie serious don't ever have actors you recognized from television or past films we remember growing up and really any person who thinks that Parsons can do drama is a serious idiot or have no brain at all, because while I was watching his scenes I was hoping Parsons and Efron were going to have an argument about Efron being in Parsons spot or having unnecessary debates on nerd culture. But no, we don't get that which is sad for me personally, now Osment well all I can say for that guy is that he at least tried his best and the man does need to pay the bills so I don't know he can get in out of jail free card. The way personally on how I would make this film better is that I would cast professional actors to play these characters so we as an audience can care about them moreover try to understand the motivation on why their struggling through the events of Bundy's trial. The other thing is at least focus more on Bundy's insanity and what makes him tick, also at least show him killing someone because deep down we all know he committed these crimes at least show them to the audiences so we can see what and why the man is a psychopath. So look if your wanting to find something different to watch on Netflix I wouldn't want to watch this, never in a million years and yes I'm sure that everyone will praise Efron’s performance, there was absolutely no praise I can give from his performance other than playing a grown man with a huge temper tantrum who doesn't even look scary at all.
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