A chilling, slow burn of a movie that deals with the power of influence without making any judgments despite us knowing the real-life consequences of their actions.

If you are looking for a real life true crime story, skip on past this one. I know it says that this was based on a true story, and that is about as close as they come to truth in this movie. What it is in reality is a puff piece to get you to sympathize with an illegal alien serial killer. The truth of the matter was that Malvo was a stowaway who was arrested by the Border Patrol and as a stowaway he never should have been granted bond and should have been held in custody until he was deported. I am sure the producers don't want you to know the truth because they want you to feel for the loser but some of us actually know the real story.

I can’t remember the last time I saw such a discrepancy between what the so-called professional critics and the audiences opine. This movie is a disjointed and almost pointless attempt at telling the story of the DC snipers. As other reviewer‘s have said, the title of the film is highly misleading as it makes one anticipate that we will see how the killers carried out their crimes from the vehicle. And we already know that they get their comeuppance at the end, but the entire thing is so horrendously orchestrated that it simply skips some of the most pivotal moments of the saga and abruptly comes to an end. I can’t even agree with other reviewer‘s that the two leading men are outstanding in their performances, as everything just falls flat. Please spare yourself 90 minutes of your precious time and skip this thing.

The "Beltway Sniper" attacks are recent enough that I remember coverage of them as a 12-year-old. The LPOTL episode covering black serial killers touches on the shootings, which is what attracted me to searching for a dramatic rendition of the topic. Unfortunately, the audience (with a (51) as I write this) is a much more accurate score than what the critics (83) believe. I really don't understand why the script decided to leave out a couple of pertinent details to the gunmen, which include John's (Isaiah Washington) racial motivations (kill white people) and his religion (he converted to Islam and joined the Nation of Islam in 1987). Removing these factors and focusing solely on John's obsession with getting revenge on his ex and finding where his children were located made for a disjointed motivation. There was one reference to bombings in Afghanistan on a 온라인카지노추천 in a bar, but John didn't seem fazed or angered by it at all. Washington really puts out some excellent scenes, my favorite of which comes when he is showing Lee (Tequan Richmond) his old street, calling his wife a "vampire" and other names. The anger bubbling inside of John is slowly being revealed, but never fully materializes in the rest of the movie. Lee is young and impressionable and immediately takes to John and returns to him after abusive and psychotic tests. He also somehow loses his Caribbean accent? All of the sudden, John is openly discussing senseless murders in the grocery store and they're reconfiguring the inside of the titular blue caprice car. Although any plans that include mass murders are psychotic, John's felt silly: "Even if we lose, we win." How exactly? The pacing is off and what is usually one of the more fun parts of thrillers — how they get caught — is a complete dud here. This is the story of the "Beltway Snipers," not inspired by them (John Muhammed and Lee Malvo were their real names), which is why leaving out those important details doesn't make any sense to me. I'm with the audience on this one and can't recommend this movie.

Blue Caprice is unfortunately very disappointing. It's too bad, because its fact-based source material is dark and disturbing. And Iasaih Washington gives a strong, and surprisingly convincing act. But, the script is too weak, everything goes too fast, it doesn't focuse itself enough on the murders or the arrest. And the characters are also not developed enough. On the one hand, it's a character study about two people eaten up by anger and violence, but one the other hand, it's deeply flawed and was very disappointing. Check out for yourself...

Despite great performances it doesn't provide a complete backstory about the motives behind the murders.

The real life subject matter keeps it interesting but don't expect a lot of fireworks.

It is slow, and there isn't a lot of action but that wasn't the point of the movie. This was to understand the two DC snipers and why they did what they did. Moved slow, but I believe that was an artistic decision. Good movie on NetFlix

Misleading title makes it seem as though the movie would focus on the shootings from the car vs the behind the scenes story of the 2 men. Solid acting from Washington and Richmond.

never spent a more boring 50 minutes before giving up , dull moody silences ,incredibly slow and sluggish , really tried to give it a chance but couldn't see it through

Despite the great performances and commendable ambitions, "Blue Caprice" never quite breaks the skin covering the ideas it seeks to explore.

Felt kind of monotone throughout the whole film.

Director Alexandre Moors' Blue Caprice takes the horror you felt watching We Need to Talk About Kevin a few years ago (assuming you could sit through it) and sets it in the real world. That isn't to say Lynn Ramsey's film about an evil teenage boy who goes on a killing spree at his school is particularly fantastical. On the contrary, We Need to Talk About Kevin's verisimilitude was what made it so terrifying. But many Blue Caprice viewers will remember actually living through these events. It's a dramatization of the Beltway sniper attacks of late 2002, and it's as difficult to watch as you might expect. Rewarding, yes, but damn tough to sit through. The film begins in Antigua where a boy named Lee (Tequan Richmond) has just been abandoned (again) by his mother. He goes swimming and nearly drowns if not for John (Isaiah Washington), who appears to be vacationing with his children. John takes Lee under his wing, and when they both arrive in John's hometown of Tacoma, Washington, the latter is calling the former his dad. Crumbs of information about John emerge subtly over the course of the film-his temper, his love of guns, his estranged relationship with his ex-wife and children (they weren't vacationing per se). He holds very rigid thoughts about how the world works, and when things go against him or he thinks he's being treated unjustly, he turns toward violent punishment, even anarchy. Not unlike The Joker, John wants to create chaos. He thinks we all live on the edge of collapse, and he thinks the world needs to feel it the way he does. Lee, meanwhile, is a blank slate. Presumably, that helps him deal with his mother's abandonment and his frequent bouts of starvation (he's always on the prowl for a burger, it seems). The downside, of course, is that he's easily malleable, and in the hands of a bad man (enter John), Lee can-and does-commit evil deeds. All the fascinating character details and interplay are nothing without solid performances, and Blue Caprice has two. One, I should clarify, is great. Great, great, great. Isaiah Washington is a revelation as the black-hearted John. He never raises his voice, but there's such an intensity in every word that comes out of his mouth. You can feel his malice. It's the source of everything that is frightening about Blue Caprice. His costar, Tequan Richmond, is good given what he's asked to do. Lee is a wholly reactive individual. He lacks agency and a desire to acquire some. That means Richmond's performance needs to be a little aloof, and it is. However, these qualities don't light up the screen. Getting back to the film as a whole, it walks a very fine line between thought-provoking and exploitative, and while there's a lot to admire, one can't help but ask the question: is this film necessary? By forcing his audience to actually relive recent history-a tragic history that doesn't have any obvious or life-affirming takeaways-to spin his tale of man's worst side, Moors doesn't make things easy. Knowing there are men and women out there still living with the consequences of John and Lee's senseless actions makes me feel awful. (Maybe that's what Moors is going for.) Whatever the case, Blue Caprice isn't an experience I'd recommend to just anyone, nor is it a film I ever want to watch again. But it's a well-crafted film with a precise tone that will haunt you for days. And in its moral favor, it judges its characters quite appropriately, which ultimately made the film easier-i.e. possible-to swallow. http://www.johnlikesmovies.com/blue-caprice-review/

'Blue Caprice' is a slow moving, linear and intriguing drama about a distorted father-son relationship which facilitated their long and bloody journey across north-eastern US. It is superb in more ways than one. It gets in deep into the nitty-gritty of relationships - friends, family and strangers. The transformation of an impressionable teenager into one cold-hearted killer is captured with brevity. This film investigates the genesis of real-life serial killings from the point of view of the perpetrators. Therein lays its ingenuity which also helps to universalize the narrative. Thus, as a conservative middle-class Indian, I also empathize with uneasiness with the sordid murders. The geographical remoteness of events gets telescoped. The filmmakers do take some artistic liberty with the events. For example, in real-life the mother of the teenager (Lee Malvo) was well-acquainted with John Muhammad. And they moved to Florida irst not to Washington. But that's ok. In the end, the film succeeds in getting across a solid story. The acting is splendid from the whole cast. I was really impressed by the character of Jamie- played brilliantly by Joey Lauren Adams. She has that unique voice which matched the character. It's one of my things though - I always give more attention to supporting cast. They are like the props which take lead cast to pinnacle.

The trailer seemed very interesting but it was awful. I don't recommend this one.

Movie about the D.C. snipers.

A well shot, moodily scored and impressively acted indie from last year, Blue Caprice is also a frustratingly cold film that in the end misses the mark in such a way that you just can't help but wish you were more affected by a story that is all different types of sad and horrific in equal measure. Alexandre Moors film looks to delve into the events leading up to the tragic 2002 Beltway Sniper shootings around the USA that led to the deaths of 10 innocent civilians at the hands of John Muhammad and Lee Malvo. It must be noted that these events Moors displays in the film are largely dramatizations as facts concerning the two men remain sadly blurred. With the blurring of these facts and fictions the films growth as a narrative does suffer as what we are presented with is a strangely generic telling of a true story that is anything but. While moments in the film are at times extremely shocking and confronting they're merely short bursts of memorable material that quickly dissipates back to slow moving and uninvolving instances - these moments of quality are made increasingly more annoying due to the films many other affective sums not adding up to a satisfying whole. Seasoned actor Isaiah Washington has rarely, if ever, been better than he is here in a role that must of required quite a lot of mental and emotional stress on his behalf. The character of John is a role that features much pent up rage and at times evil that Washington cleverly plays to and is backed up by a very assured performance from young actor Tequan Richmond as his surrogate son Lee. Lee is a boy whose lot in life has left him scarily low choices to make and Richmond does a fine job at displaying this sad boy and also excels at the moments where a boy becomes more than that and becomes a monster. Sarah Neufeld and Colin Stetson's affective score must also be commended here as a haunting accompanying piece to a growing terror. A well-made movie yet undeniably cold and at times to distant for its own good Blue Caprice is an interesting look into an horrific situation that you get the feeling will one day be turned into a much bigger and affecting big screen treatment. 3 combat handbooks out of 5 For more movie reviews and opinions check into - www.jordanandeddie.wordpress.com

Incredibly disturbing with eerily calm direction.

A well made and performed movie in how to go about creating monsters.

Chilling portrait of the two insane sniper murderers, and how their mnds break with reality occurred.