somersaultclemency
I watched the two of the earlier Dahmer movies and this one is the least murderous one. Ironically, this is supposed to be a serial killer movie, not a movie about a high-school kid's depressed life. However, it gives you the sense that somehow directors or the story writer intentionally excluded the murder scenes and focused more on the daily part of Dahmer's life for some reason. My favourite Dahmer movie named as "Dahmer" displayed many of Dahmer's murders and the other movie called "The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer" also did that, even though it wasn't very convincing and at some parts of the movie, things made no sense. I expected this movie to be extremely graphic and disturbing, because i thought if the old ones were that explicit, This one should have been highly grotesque but highly convincing at the same time. The movie did not reach up to my expectations, because of two main reasons: The first one is that it focused too much on Dahmer's high-school years, which i think is unnecessary because not much happens during his school years and this makes the plot boring and uninteresting. The second one is that the plot was blurred at some parts of the movie. For instance, Jeffrey sleeps with the jogger&doctor's dead body and then the movie displays a dead body of a wild bear in a blurred way. Thus, the movie was filled with open-ended scenes, which as a whole seemed like an incomplete puzzle. However, I have to admit that the protagonist (Ross Lynch) did a great job on acting the role of Dahmer and the resemblance was very high. Hence, i would like to see more action and interesting, also exciting scene,s attributing to the high resemblance and good acting of Dahmer, which as a result would create a harmonious, complete and unique movie. I dare the directors to be more creative, eccentric and courageous for a movie based on the story of a real-life serial killer like this one.
3acts
I enjoyed this twisted insight into the early life of Dahmer; however, it suffers a little from the light weight performances from his mother and father. Unfortunately, I thought of SNL during their scenes together.
jlarrison
Really great movie. It doesn't have much to do with what we know as Jeff Dahmer, but explains a lot of how he ended up how he was. I loved the movie because it told a story that I didn't expect and I was engaged from the start to the end.It actually is the start of a great horror film series if you took this film to the sequel. I guess in real life it did end up being a true horror.
