OK let's review key elements of which at least one or more are required in order to make a movie interesting, viewable, likable, thought provoking and perhaps even stunning or beautiful. This movie had bad writing (really bad), bad acting, bad casting, bad directing, bad cinematography, a bad plot and yes, even a bad score. In other words this film has absolutely no redeeming qualities about it whatsoever. I don't know how a project could fail so horribly in the year 2010 especially with such interesting and relevant material to deal with.
The 2003 made for TV movie entitled DC Sniper: 23 days of Fear, was excellent by the way! I guess they couldn't even come up with an original name for this turd.
I could tell that it was going to be a B movie with just the credits but many B budget movies I have watched and enjoyed. This was not one of them. Things that really bothered me were:
[1] Two real bad characterizations of the 'Texan' and the initial FBI agent who in the end took the sole credit for catching the duo. [2] This was supposedly based on fact yet the script deviated away from the facts at every opportunity.
[3] How the dynamic duo teamed up and during routinesurveillance while undercover they just happened to find them in a parking lot. I love the writing around this point where it becomes so cheesy that it is actual humorous. "That 50,000 dollar reward sure would go along ways in finding my daughter". As if cops get cash rewards for doing their jobs.
[4] The dinner scene was so laughable. How could anyone write so poorly.
[5] They couldn't afford a real gun I guess as the one they used was sooooo bad and everyone knows they were using a high tech semiautomatic rifle.
[6] The position of the kid in the trunk trying to shoot was so unrealistic that yet again I liked it because it was so humorous. No one could hit anything like that.
[7] Making a big deal of getting out and replacing the tail light after every shoot (which never happened by the way) and yet they forget to put it back on when they were caught napping in the parking lot.
I could go on easily but I won't. The movie was so bad that it forced me to register with IMDb to vent.
The 2003 made for TV movie entitled DC Sniper: 23 days of Fear, was excellent by the way! I guess they couldn't even come up with an original name for this turd.
I could tell that it was going to be a B movie with just the credits but many B budget movies I have watched and enjoyed. This was not one of them. Things that really bothered me were:
[1] Two real bad characterizations of the 'Texan' and the initial FBI agent who in the end took the sole credit for catching the duo. [2] This was supposedly based on fact yet the script deviated away from the facts at every opportunity.
[3] How the dynamic duo teamed up and during routinesurveillance while undercover they just happened to find them in a parking lot. I love the writing around this point where it becomes so cheesy that it is actual humorous. "That 50,000 dollar reward sure would go along ways in finding my daughter". As if cops get cash rewards for doing their jobs.
[4] The dinner scene was so laughable. How could anyone write so poorly.
[5] They couldn't afford a real gun I guess as the one they used was sooooo bad and everyone knows they were using a high tech semiautomatic rifle.
[6] The position of the kid in the trunk trying to shoot was so unrealistic that yet again I liked it because it was so humorous. No one could hit anything like that.
[7] Making a big deal of getting out and replacing the tail light after every shoot (which never happened by the way) and yet they forget to put it back on when they were caught napping in the parking lot.
I could go on easily but I won't. The movie was so bad that it forced me to register with IMDb to vent.