Review of Dahmer (2002) by John H — 06 Sep 2015
Jeremy Renner's easily the best thing about this. His Dahmer contains just enough tragic listlessness that you can see why people wouldn't suspect him of anything more serious than traffic violations, even when he starts to get creepy.
The problem is the film never does anything with that. Instead, after a creepy first twenty minutes where we learn how he operates, it focuses entirely on Dahmer alone in his apartment with a victim he lured in.
It never knows what to do with this, being neither particularly exploitative nor clinical crime drama, and there's little tension. In the end they cut away before any of the dramatic stuff happens, like the arrest and trial.
Apart from Renner there's nothing worth seeing here. It's just another boring flick taking advantage of a real horror story.
This review of Dahmer (2002) was written by John H on 06 Sep 2015.
Dahmer has generally received mixed reviews.
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