Supelice Dreadfully Boring

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Casey Black Prior to watching this film I had taken a class that spent about a month or so looking in-depth into the case of The West Memphis Three very heavily and even getting the opportunity to meet with Dan Stidham, Jessie Misskelly's defense attorney. So watching the film for the first time I was pretty critical to see how the characters would be portrayed and perhaps hint at specifically that Terry Hobbs had in fact been the real murderer. I was quite pleasantly surprised that the movie took a rather objective stand about the suspected murderer besides the three West Memphis teens, Damien, Jason, and Jessie. The movie presented the other theories that have surfaced; including as mentioned before, Terry Hobbs, John Mark Byers, and the mysterious "Mr. Bojangles". I appreciated those view points and really gave the viewer the chance to create their own theory. I thought the facts in the film were almost entirely accurate and had a few misconstrued details, but where won't one find that in a movie 'based' on real-life events. One of the things that I enjoyed thoroughly about the film was the credit and presence on Ron Lax in the trials of the three teens. In the film he took on the role of most likely the lead male character which I did not expect. When reading and researching the case by itself Lax does not really play a large part in the trials of the three teens. I felt as if this film gave Lax the credit he deserved as well as Stidham's dedication to the three teens when the two other attorneys dropped off after the sentence. Another character that I felt got a little lost in the film was Micheal Moore along with Chris Byers. All in all I felt like the film gave an accurate representation of facts and visual images to the story. However, the documentaries would hold more fact filled information if one desires more information about the West Memphis Three.

Donald Buehler Well, I seem to be at odds with the critics (not surprising) and the viewers of this movie. I knew virtually nothing about the case of the "West Memphis 3" before seeing the movie - and maybe that was an advantage for me.I found the story compelling - the acting very convincing - and the sense of unease in relation to the story upsetting. This true story occurred in 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas and (evidently) garnered national attention at that time (I must have been asleep). It tells the story of the grisly murder of three young boys and the subsequent "witch hunt" to find their killers. This story demonstrates what can happen when people in a community are scared, the heat is on the police, and everyone just wants to get through it. You guessed it - not a good set up for justice. And, early on it is clear that justice will not be done in this case.Interesting that the South seems to have a reputation for shocking travesties of justice (remember George Zimmerman?) yet these things happen throughout our nation (OJ in LA and recently the non indictment in the NY police strangulation case). Where ever you land on these current cases, this movie does an excellent job of laying out the case against the police (unforgivable) and the town (understandable) in this case.Both Colin Firth and Reese Witherspoon give good performances and I loved the cameo by Mireille Enos (one of my favorites - from The Killing.)Well you can believe the critics or me. I really liked it and learned from this film. I think you will too.BTW: check out the top 10 IMDb movies of the year:http://www.imdb.com/best-of/imdb-countdown?ref_=hm_hp_i_1It is clear that I cannot cancel my Netfilx membership for a while. I have only seen 3 of the top 10!!! All the best DonB

jagarcesnevarez13 I could realize why this movie is too low, it doesn't deserves a great answer from the normals.The story of the movie (which is really based on true attempts) is the only thing that saves it from being terrible at all, after that. the rest of the movie is disappointingly.But, terribly, this movie connects some things stupid from the story using them in the movie, making it feel disappointingly for a lot of people, just like (SPOILER) the decisions of the judgment to charge down the guilty for murder with... Heavy Metal music and black dressing, hey that's stupid at all, what's wrong with Heavy Metal music, with wearing black clothes and reading a little about occultism, just for that things, you're a serial murdered, that's not good.

Leonarda_N Based on a true murder case, this movie tells the story of the murder of three young 8-year-old boys in West Memphis.It was originally believed that the boys were victims of three teenagers, so-called ''The West Memphis Three'', who were allegedly members of a satanic cult, but then investigation took an unexpected turn... I don't want to spoil the further events (in case you're not familiar with the story). The actors' performances are good (especially Colin Firth's), but there are some unnecessary scenes. In addition, the plot develops slowly and the ending could have been much better.All in all, it's an interesting movie, but not made well enough to be seen more than once.