patriotpridet
To John_Merritt2011Just the fact that your very first statement tells us you did not even see this film, your critique of this video is nonsensical, uneducated, and flat out stupid! Your assertion that it should not have been made due to the brutality of it and insulting to the victims families, is ridiculous! By your way of thinking movies like: Full Metal Jacket (RIP Gunny), JFK, Goodfellas, Glory, and every other movie based on Actual Events. Gimme a break!
john_merritt2011
This in my opinion is very disturbing and disgusting on how someone is allowed to create and publicize this sort of garbage just so that people will see what someone is capable of. I resided and worked on the specific base when all of this took place and it was a very dark time and this should be banned everywhere. Imagine just how you would feel if someone close to you had this sort of events happen to them. Would you want this publicized. All for the mode of the almighty dollar hey he who makes the most money still passes on. I hope that the author and publicist and all those involved in thinking this is a fascinating story for all to see get a hand of fate dealt to them.. Think I am being harsh why not contact the families whose lives will never be the same ever. Feel free to contact my email anytime and I am more than wiling to elaborate for you.
phd_travel
This is a very well paced and realistically made Lifetime movie about the true story of Canadian Air Force colonel Russ Williams. His gradual escalation from underwear theft to home invasion and murder is carefully and realistically portrayed here. Gary Cole gives a balanced and believable performance as the main character. The straightforward telling without flashbacks is good and the tension and fear of the victims is quite terrifying.The police investigation is fascinating with the various mistakes and eventual breakthrough.Looks like there are some crazy serial pervert killers up North too.Worth a watch.
Robert J. Maxwell
This is a pretty decent Lifetime Movie Network made-for-TV production. It's about a full colonel and base commander in the Canadian Air Force, Gary Cole, and how he begins sneaking about at night, burglarizing the houses of his neighbors, stealing women's panties first, then graduating to two rape/murders before finally being caught by the Provincial Police.When his wife isn't around, he dresses up in brassieres and underpants and takes pictures of himself in the mirror. This is truly disgusting. The occasional use of fishnet stockings and stiletto heels, which I use in front of a mirror when I'm imitating Judy Garland belting out show tunes, is tasteful and requires skill. But this pig deserves the two life terms he winds up with.What gets me is -- well, here is this apparently normal man in, say, his mid-40s, who has risen to the rank of full colonel, commands an entire Air Force base, has piloted around the Queen of England as well as other notables, yet carries about in his head this uncontrollable urge to commit these bizarre acts. How come nobody has found out about his trunk full of women's underwear that he's been schlepping around for years? Not even his wife seems to know about his quirks. It's almost unimaginable that this pathology should suddenly blossom out of nowhere, having left no tracks behind. How could no one notice? All right, he's a military man and shows a lot of self discipline. And indeed he does, cool under interrogation by the police, filled with concern about the impact of his exposure on the base personnel. And yet he's dumb enough to leave revealing tire tracks at the house of his last victim. And when he comes to the police station to be questioned, he removes his boots and leaves them in the hallway -- the boots that left prints at the victim's house. He may be a perfect pilot but he's a dumb perp who has never watched a cop show on TV.Gary Cole is pretty good. He's cooperative and unemotional. He cares about people. When he leads the police to the decomposing corpse of his last victim, he remarks, with apparent sincerity, "She was a nice kid." The detective-in-charge, Laura Harris, does a professional job, and she's supported by Rossif Sutherland, Kiefer's half brother. He has a marvelous tone in his voice but its expression is flat. He sounds the same whether he's comfortable or angry. Of the victims, Micheline Marchildon is memorable as the French Canadian who becomes the first dead body. She's a mere corporal, by the way, and lives alone in a very nice house off the base. I was a non-commissioned officer, the equivalent of a sergeant, and outranked her, yet I consistently found myself in a bunk that left barely enough room to roll over at night.There are an abundance of True Crime movies that are shot in Canada -- for reasons of economy, I presume -- and pretend to be located somewhere else. It's nice to see a Canadian movie that is shot in the same country in which the events took place. Many of these movies are fairly shoddy but this one doesn't waste much time on padding out the crime theme with casual meanders into dysfunctional families, fights between the colonel and his wife, excessive expressions of grief, and the like. It's better than that.
