Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Candida It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Bob_the_Hobo Dennis Rader went decades living as the BTK Killer (stands for Hunt, Torture, Kill), with his final amount murder list will probably never be known for sure. "The Hunt for the BTK Killer" follows Rader, played by Gregg Henry, and Detective Magida, Robert Forster, the man responsible for taking him down.This is a very good true to life television film. The story is for the most part correct, and while I don't know if there was a Det. Magida (or if that was the Detective's name) the police investigation kept me interested as to exactly how BTK was caught. Rader's kills are presented in a creepy and fascinating way. Overall the script is tight and consistently keeps your attention.Henry and Forster are really the only characters that are given much depth, but those two are the only ones that need it. The script typecasts Forster's Magida as your usual cop, he's an older gumshoe working with a beautiful younger actress as partner. Henry does a fantastic job as Rader, his interviews at the end are creepy and award-worthy.There is a voice-over narration by Forster that guides the film, which I suspect was brought in afterwards to tie up loose ends. In any other case, I would drop the quality down for using the worst tool in the business, but here it actually enlightened about Rader instead of insulting the viewer's intelligence.If you're interested in BTK, or serial killer media in general, this one is worth a watch.

Richard As a TV movie it had a lot more potential to bring it as a film. For example they could have chosen not to start in the beginning revealing who the serial killer is. But they did, and the rest of the movie is in fact set up like documentary. It tells the story from the view of the serial killer and a part from the police side with a little part of how the investigation was done.That's why I would not call this one a movie, because it isn't. And if it is, then it's a bad movie, without suspense in it. No real action, only a storyboard.However, if one is interested in serial killers en one likes documentary's or life story's about them, this is one of the better I've seen. Luckely I belong to the persons who are interested in the ways of thinking and acting of a serial killer and why they become them etc. So I've seen it completely.But due to the fact that it's called "film" and not "documentary" it got a 3 from me. Was it called documentary it would have gotten an 8.

dcs4669 John Dunsworth ... Jim Lahey of Trailer Park Boys has a few different appearances in the movie.As the Reverand of the church BTK goes to and speaks several lines but there is no mention he is in the movie.just seemed odd to me.I am from Halifax and enjoyed seeing a few people I knew in the film and of course recognizing locations.I did also see a few other people I knew from just seeing them around not really knowing them but there is no mention of them either.For some reason I never heard of this movie until this week and it is 2 years old. I normally am pretty on top of what movies are out there but this one slipped me by and it was a local movie for me also.I rather enjoyed watching it but does have a bit of the stereo-type of a Canadian film look to it but very glad to watch it and will again with my wife at a later date.

vchimpanzee As the movie opens, Dennis Rader has been arrested for his string of killings over a period of many years in Wichita, Kansas. Through flashbacks, we see the events leading up to his capture, as well as some of the murders.Gregg Henry had a very challenging role, and in my opinion, he delivered. Dennis Rader was shown as very normal at times, a kind and caring person. In fact, he was so normal the background music made me think of ice cream trucks. Then he was shown as cruel and unfeeling, but not in a situation necessarily related to any murders. Where the murders were planned, Rader was depicted as quite demented and somehow controlled by an unknown force, with background music appropriate to the situation and sometimes so weird it could not even be called music. After his arrest, Rader described what he had done with almost no emotion, as if explaining how he remodeled a house or something, though sometimes he bordered on demented in describing his actions. He seemed to show no remorse, despite being an upstanding member of the community. I am assuming Henry was able to work with footage or good memories to create his impressions of Rader in custody.The murders were quite scary because of the special editing and visual effects, which may have made them look less graphic but certainly added to the horror of what took place.Robert Forster did a very capable job as Jason Madiga, a detective on the case. According to what I have read about the case, he was not a real person, but that does not matter. His performance, and the efforts to solve the case, make the movie worthwhile almost as much as Henry's performance.It was a better than average fact-based TV movie.