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Baseshment I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

rsn711 The Killer Inside Me is a rather unpleasant film that never decides what it is trying to do. The story of a 1950's west Texas sheriff harboring a dark secret, the film is a well-appointed yet hollow period piece that confounds and disgusts rather than provokes and inspires.Casey Affleck turns in a reliably intense and committed performance as the sociopathic sheriff, but he is unable to overcome the haphazard characterization, poorly-written women, and wavering tone that plagues the rest of the film. Winterbottom never truly settles on how to tell the story, with moments of suspense and dread giving way to what one might call whimsy in a matter of seconds. The events of the end of the film retroactively draw into the question the decision-making and competence of all of the characters around Affleck, and leave the viewer frustrated. The absolute gutter-level CGI does the film no favors either.Featuring some of the most graphic on-screen beatings I've ever seen in a film (no, I haven't seen Irréversible), this 2010 film might be the one that comes back to haunt 2017 Casey Affleck more than any other. It certainly looks like a poor choice in roles considering the accusations levied against him that were highly publicized during his run toward an Academy Award win this past year.The film certainly deserves the criticism it received upon release for the gratuitous violence inflicted upon the women in the film, who seem to exist solely to receive this pain. We are left to wonder what kind of story could have been told with a more thoughtful script and more subtle hand behind the camera.

Andrius Bielskis Frankly, I do not understand how come this movie has 6.1 rating among the viewers - this is what misled me as I opted to watch it. To me, the story is rather flat, most of the time the next event is pretty much predictable... Or, in some moments, it does not have a decent reasoning.The plot, in general, is pointless - it basically has no moral behind: you see some corruption, some sexual and psychological perversion and, as the result, crimes committed by police official. The end of the movie missed the intrigue and is just boring.The pace of the story-telling seems rather lazy and while at the beginning you still find it distinctive, but you believe (or hope) that it will get better and more interesting and there's going to be more of intensity as the story progresses. However, that does not happen.All in all, I feel pity for spending those couple of hours in vain.

benrd-76-890918 Just viewed on DVD. Appalling violent junk. This is not film noir, this is film "in your face" because the director has no idea what he is doing. The exact same storyline by an experienced director would have the same impact without the unsubtle graphic scenes. In the first murder the fake killer would have some marks on his fist to show that he hit victim. This is conveniently overlooked in the script. A better director/scriptwriter would of written her killing in a way that would have been creditable for the fake killer to have done the killing.Remember the killing in the shower in Psycho? An expert did that with not a frame of film wasted. Here we hang on ever shot of a bloodied face with the subtly of a sledge hammer. This film is total junk.

Leofwine_draca THE KILLER INSIDE ME is the attempt to portray the mind of a violence-prone psychopath in the trappings of a modern-day film noir, a la THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE or BODY HEAT. As a film it's a bit of a failure, purely because it lacks a single sympathetic character. Casey Affleck's lead is arresting, for sure, but he's hateful with it and just not very interesting when he's not involved in the film's more controversial moments.Be warned: the film possesses one or two moments of extreme violence which are fairly sickening in their extremity. I don't mind extreme cinema, but you get the feeling that it's included here purely because the rest of the movie is so dull. It's overlong, for a start, and once the opening murder plot has been disposed with, the movie seems to just move slowly along while it searches for plot points and decent incident.Far too much is made of the dull Affleck character, the women (Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson) are there to be victims alone, and the seasoned support (Elias Koteas, Ned Beatty, Bill Pullman and Simon Baker) feel wasted.It all climaxes in one crushing letdown of an ending, an over-the-top piece of (unbelievable) spectacle that feels out of place given the careful realism that's come before. Tonally, director Michael Winterbottom delivers a movie that's all over the place at times, and you feel that he was well out of his comfort zone and not quite sure how to handle the material. It's obvious that the people who made THE KILLER INSIDE ME thought it was a great movie with that finesse of quality to it, but the sad truth is that it's fairly ordinary after all.