The Killer Inside Me - Movie review
| Country (Year): | USA (2010) |
| Genre: | Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western |
| Runtime: | 109min |
| Director: | Michael Winterbottom |
| Release date: | 10.03.2011 (German Switzerland) |
| 01.09.2010 (Romandie) | |
| Script: | John Curran |
The Killer Inside Me
A neat and childlike cop is secretly a monstrous psychopath.
Image galleryLou Ford is a sweet-faced man with a high-pitched voice who plays the piano in his spare time; a deputy sheriff in a small and seemingly sleepy Texas town. But he's also a monster: abused by his father during his childhood, he brutally kills a prostitute he's been secretly seeing, cold-bloodedly murders the son of a powerful local businessman and is suspected of these murders by a union activist and an alcoholic homeless man. Ford goes as far as to knock off his beautiful fiancée and a good friend, just to keep up appearances...
The Killer Inside Me mirrors brutal films like Stephen Frears' The Grifters and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing - unsurprisingly, given the fact that these movies were also adapted from books by the American author Jim Thompson. But Michael Winterbottom's movie suffers from the same flaw as the adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' «American Psycho»: unable to identify with a protagonist who commits horrendous crimes, the audience is likely to reject a movie version, while reading about the same character is easier to digest.
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Kleiton: Good story and strng scenes. Needs stomach to watc... |