Dahmer (2002)
How does crap like "Dahmer" get made? Who puts
up the money for this pitiful, repulsive, uninteresting
garbage? Fucking exploitive bastards. Worthless creeps,
the lot of them.
As if we needed another repulsive serial killer
docudrama, as if we needed another revolting film where
the gay man is a killer. As if we needed another homophobic
piece of crap. There I said it. Homophobic. This crud
is even worse than some sort of gore obsessed, goatish
horror flick; at least those films are easily dismissed
as the exploitive shit that they are. No, this junk
purports to be some sort of look into the mind and impulses
of a serial killer. In reality it is just a bunch of
pop-psychology bullshit. When Dahmer kills his first
victim here, he sobs like a baby. You almost feel sorry
for him. Heinous crap.
This film is slow-moving, and by that I mean boring.
Sure, there's not a whole lot of blood but the film
begins with Dahmer drilling into some guy's cranium.
He also brains one with a barbell, and he chokes, strangles
and chops up others. Just because the camera doesn't
wallow in gore, just because the camera avoids the gruesome
action it is purporting to (not) show, doesn't make
it any less despicable.
The fact that the film jumps around in time doesn't
help propel the story either. Actor Jeremy Renner's
idea of playing Dahmer as a teen is to be clean shaven
and to play him as an adult is to have 3-day stubble.
That's really all he does here. He walks around like
a dull, throbbing headache trying to make sense of the
bogus, pedantic, psychobabble script he is forced to
enact. He eventually just gives up and doesn't even
try. Some people will mistake this for subtlety.
The only real actor in the piece, and the only
saving grace of the film, is Artel Kayaru as Rodney.
Making his debut here, Kayaru is sharp, interesting
and full of energy. He sticks out like a sore thumb
in this badly acted, drearily filmed, snooze fest. He's
what is often referred to as a breath of fresh air because
he actually tries to make some sort of sense out of
this crap and truly enact it. It's a valiant effort
but he is constantly swimming upstream here.
David Jacobson, who wrote this revolting, homophobic
crap and should be slapped with a stinky fish (and I
don't mean pussy), makes his feature debut here. He
previously helmed something called "Criminal" for TV.
It's obviously has a TV mentality here as this film
is nothing but cheap made-for-TV film that got a theatrical
release because some fucker thought the title "Dahmer"
might actually make people plunk down eight bucks. I
bet this shit is playing every college market in America.
That's just what we need, a film that will make a bunch
of drunken fratboys hate gays more. And also be bored
to death. I hope the producers of this dreck die in
a horrible car accident.
If there is anything to like in this inhumane,
cinematic regurgitation, it is the music. The film is
peppered with dark and compelling rock music that underscores
the drab visuals with a much needed sense of forward
motion. This still cannot save the film, however.
"Dahmer," a film as repulsive and unnecessary as
they come. God help anyone who is actually interested
in the real story and motivations of Dahmer that gets
this film as their primer. It doesn't explain a thing
about the reality of the man. Then again, why would
anyone give a fuck about this loser? The only thing
that scares me more than the people who might go to
see this dreck because they are interested (for whatever
reason) in Jeffrey Dahmer is the idiots who actually
took the time and used the money to make it. They're
more scary than any serial killer could ever be.
Note:
Also with Bruce Davison, who should donate his
paycheck to GLAAD or something.
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Script:
F
Acting: D+
Cinematography\Lighting: F
Special Effects\Make Up: A
Music: A+
Final
Grade: F
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