The Alphabet Killer

The main character is distractingly sensual and hot looking with a pretty face a hot body and a breathy voice. In the first 30 minutes It just annoyed me to death knowing this was about a real murderer's crimes and I was watching a pretty actress prove she can act. The movie tapped into a few irritating cliches as well to remind me it was garbage. Eventually, with great patience and effort I bought into the hot-chick as investigator and thought she did a good job with the character. Timothy Hutton was the best actor in the whole movie and toward the end I felt mildly entertained. I am not a fan of the concept of dead victims egging on investigators to solve their murder. This would have been a much more compelling film if the lead looked like a real person and not a pretty-little-actress and if they could have expressed the main characters destructive obsession/ ocd about the case without the japanese demon ghosts.

The Alphabet Killer is one of those stories that BS you by selling itself right and delivering itself wrong. It tries hard, but lacks coherence.Detective Megan Paige has a solid record thus she being the lead detective in the investigation of the R and murder of a pre-teen girl seems like the right move. That is until she becomes obssessed with solving the **** this movie a horror movie, a crime procedural, a thriller? It is all and none. This film attempts too many things. Megan's hauntings have somewhat of an explanation, but, at the same time, just feels like a channel for cheap scares. The crime procedural is absent: Megan just instinctively knows stuff, which gets convenient fast. To wrap up, you are not really thrilled with anything other than seeing Megan go **** fact that this film is based on true events, and the way the real investigation turned out, makes the addition of Megan ineffective. Her arc is just a weird layer on top of a sad case, a layer that feels like covering a steak with chocolate. The movie Zoadiac had launched a year priot to this, have they not seen it?To make matters worst, the screenwriter and the director took the liberty of actually somewhat "solving" the case, which I think is super disrespectful with the real families involved in this. Such a bold move only for it to become a stain in the poorly written ending this film **** you are an average film-watcher, avoid this piece. It is subpar, at best, and you are better off watching anything else. For the film-junkies, yeah, you might want to watch it for the sport, but be advised.