[Sundance Review] "Extremely wicked, scandalously wicked and infamous", but feels irresponsible



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Thanks to the overabundance of real crime and podcasts, we are currently in a renewed phase of "fun game for serial killers", a fairly irresponsible national conversation that, it must be said, is struck . Joe Berlinger Extremely naughty, outrageously evil and vile (phew, this title) sinks and condemns this conversation in an entertaining film and confused to an almost equal extent

Zac Efron (which also filmed the film) plays Ted Bundy the serial killer best known for his beauty and charm instead of, you know, slaying dozens of women. And it's impossible to deny that Efron is handsome and charming here, releasing a sort of grim ease that reads like a hokey at the beginning of the movie before he really starts to live in the role. Lily Collins is a culmination with Liz Kloepfer the single mother who fell in love with Bundy long before her crimes were revealed. While Bundy is arrested, escaped, arrested again, escaped again and so on, Liz has faith in the man who has been so kind to her and her daughter, which is understandable.

The film is based on the book of Liz The Phantom Prince: My Life with Ted Bundy and yet the film strangely lacks perspective. It is here this woman who feels guilty of both the crimes and the arrest of a man that she can not decide if she believes to be innocent. It is a fascinating dilemma that is never examined with real intimacy. A big piece of Extremely Wicked only describes Liz in a close-to-edit mode, clips of his languid drinking vodka as Ted cut across the country. It's this distance from the woman whose story inspired the film that keeps it from becoming something more substantial.

Although Bundy is an undeniably engaging subject, it has already been seen many times and is another glamorous portrait of the brutal murderer. feels – here again this word – irresponsible, while a film that devotes a more significant part of his free time to the woman who suffers in his wake would be both brighter and more honest.

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Yet, once we surpbaded Ted's seemingly happy appearances across the United States, the Florida trial ended his mortal stay and finally his life, . Wicked offers a little more substance, largely thanks to the exceptional performance of John Malkovich as Judge Edward D. Cowart, a "blessed your heart" type of Southern gentleman who sees nevertheless common sense through the circus Ted Bundy. It's Cowart who gives the last word on what we, as an audience, are supposed to feel about Bundy, in a long closing statement (which includes this mouthful of a title) ending with Bundy's synthesis as a "waste of humanity".

But it may be too late, after an hour and a half of Bundy, tormenting the streets of the city, showing these pearly whites of Efron and gathering a crowd of pretty groupies. Of course, in the last five minutes Extremely Wicked condemns a man who confessed to killing more than thirty women and who is suspected of having killed many others, but that is not the case. is after all an Efron Bundy movie playing the charismatic but persecuted hero of the story.

Extremely Evil Shocking Evil and Vile is a great time, but should it be?

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