Horrid Movie

This dude Andrei used to walk away from the crimescene chewing on testicals. In comparison to reality, Malcolm is a teddy bear. The way his character was built he certainly made the most of it, but could/should have been alot nastier. The hypnotic power that the character seemed to have is obviously a creation by the director, even tho Malcolm almost hypnotised me. The thing is ofcourse KGB´s involvement thrueout the movie. The connection is hardly vague, since they time and again halted the investigation of Evilenko, the characters that could not "remember" his face were obviously connected with that fact. and probably were so in reality too. The soldier for instance that had written down his name (his job) but was reluctant to admit seeing him was a clear evidence of that. There is alot to this movie that arn´t "there" for your eyes. And is most certainly worty of a watch, more so if you like to use your head.

I actually thought Ed Gein was better than this film. This film gives the impression it will tell true story of the serial killer from his point of view, but instead the only thing they seemed to keep was the very basics of the real main, namely how he looked. This movie was a big disappointment, especially because Malcolm was in it, he was the sole good part. And the ending interogation scene was completely over the top. I can't believe the director is trying to pass most of the movie off as fact since he used to be a journalist and supposedly met the real serial killer many times. The whole "decline of communism" reason for killing was over the top too, the main didn't do it because he was being forced out of his government, he was doing it because he was a sick man that only got pleasure from killing. At the end of Citizen X they have a shrink say what made the serial killer tick and I had no problem believing that, with the movie I couldn't believe one thing that was going on.

Do yourself a favor and see Citizen X it is one of the best movies about a serial killer out there and it stays true to the true events as it was based on the book that was co-written by the detective that caught the real serial killer.