Bright's attempt to explore Bundy's romantic relationship with Lee (ie: Liz) is a mix of style and tone that doesn't fit the fictionalized true crime format, especially the end of the film which shoots for both empathy and exploitation.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 10, 2024

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2007

One of the rare movies that spend 100 minutes with someone only to glory in his protracted death.

| Original Score: B | Jan 13, 2007

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 23, 2005

It fails in being historically accurate in most parts and becomes an almost comedy horror film until we are supposed to weep for the harsh treatment Bundy gets from his executioners. Its whole premise is fatally flawed.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 10, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 28, 2004

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 22, 2003

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 10, 2003

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 8, 2002

Instead of accurately accounting a terrible true story, the film's more determined to become the next Texas Chainsaw Massacre. But what about the countless other people who'd merely like to watch a solid tale about a universally interesting soul?

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 8, 2002

Bright seems alternately amused and disgusted with this material, and he can't help throwing in a few of his own touches.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 7, 2002

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2002

Exploitative and largely devoid of the depth or sophistication that would make watching such a graphic treatment of the crimes bearable.

Full Review | Oct 7, 2002

As Bundy, Michael Reilly Burke (Octopus 2: River of Fear) has just the right amount of charisma and menace.

Full Review | Sep 19, 2002

It's possible that something hip and transgressive was being attempted here that stubbornly refused to gel, but the result is more puzzling than unsettling.

| Sep 19, 2002

An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art.

| Original Score: 35/100 | Sep 16, 2002

A trashy, exploitative, thoroughly unpleasant experience.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 13, 2002

The feral brilliance of [Michael Reilly Burke's] performance lies in the way he evokes the subtle wrongness beneath the facade that gripped the public imagination.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2002