Had Potential; Could've Been REALLY Good...
with just a little homework on the part of at least 1 person involved in the project. But repeatedly referring to the weapon used as a "point two five millimeter" pistol is such a glaring, elementary mistake that it kept distracting me and took away from its accuracy and legitimacy. It's supposed to be a documentary about a serial killer whose primary weapon of choice is a .25 caliber semi-automatic pistol; rather important to get that information correct.
About 10 minutes of research online is about all it would've taken to get that right. But, no, apparently getting the weapon right, the very cause of death to so many, obviously didn't matter enough to spend the 10 minutes. There's no such thing as a .25 millimeter pistol or ammunition. A "point two five millimeter" pistol would fire a projectile with a diameter similar to a pencil point. That's right, the bullet would be about as big around as the smallest lead you can put in a mechanical pencil.
A .25 CALIBER pistol on the other hand, fires a bullet that equates to 6.35 millimeters; those actually exist. Now I understand Brits these days may not know a lot about handguns like Americans do; but one doesn't even need to be a firearm expert to realize there's no such thing as a .25 millimeter weapon... he need only have advanced beyond 3rd grade. The metric system is their method of measurement; surely they realize that a gun chambered to one quarter of 1 millimeter (.25 millimeters) wouldn't make much of a weapon.
Other than that it was very interesting; but instances of hosts/journalists incorrectly commenting on firearms in real-life crime stories has become so commonplace these days that it's become an annoying pet peeve. If the folks making fictional movies feel that kind of accuracy is important enough to hire armorers and firearm experts as consultants on their projects, then surely the hosts of these real-life accounts can get online and spend 10-20 minutes getting adequately educated and prepared to work... one would think avoiding looking foolish would be motivation enough, but clearly it's not. Rant complete.