Boring detective. Films about a killer operating in an American college town, made many. In each of them there are careless teenagers who, instead of studying, are busy looking for a partner for the next night, strict teachers, a murderer, and a charismatic detective immersed in the investigation. The differences are mainly in the beauty of the students’ bodies, the methods of their murder, the charisma of the detective, and the ending, which is supposed to plunge the viewer into a state of “Come on!!!!” I thought the killer was this or that, but not this one! !
In "American Murder" everything is standard: there are naked bodies of students, there are evil teachers, the killer kills, the detective investigates. Oh, yeah, another wow ending. But it's all very boring. A whole half hour is spent on a completely meaningless set of unnecessary scenes, dialogues, actions, and the remaining hour kills all the plot intrigue to such an extent that there is not the slightest desire even to find out who the killer is.
This is a one hundred percent film of the early nineties, with the very atmosphere, the good old one-voice translation, but nostalgia is destroyed by an indistinct script, completely undisclosed characters, an uninteresting ending.
I was attracted by the presence of Christopher Walken in the cast. It’s always nice to watch him play, but here his role is reduced only to being.
Uninteresting, and completely optional to watch a movie, stumbling upon which, it is better to read a brief synopsis, and forget about its existence.
4 out of 10