Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Frankly, I do not understand how come this movie has 6.1 rating among the viewers - this is what misled me as I opted to watch it. To me, the story is rather flat, most of the time the next event is pretty much predictable... Or, in some moments, it does not have a decent reasoning.The plot, in general, is pointless - it basically has no moral behind: you see some corruption, some sexual and psychological perversion and, as the result, crimes committed by police official. The end of the movie missed the intrigue and is just boring.The pace of the story-telling seems rather lazy and while at the beginning you still find it distinctive, but you believe (or hope) that it will get better and more interesting and there's going to be more of intensity as the story progresses. However, that does not happen.All in all, I feel pity for spending those couple of hours in vain.

Killer Inside Me tells the story of Jake, a disturbed psychopath which suddenly starts to be a psychopath. The characters actions and their development are really obscure in this film, and so is the story. This is the kind of film that chooses to left too much to the viewer mind instead of explain, and this in fact prejudices the film. I also noted that a few things are clearly missing in the film but are fully explained in the book, as for example, a key element about the Lou's past, however i can see why this detail isn't explored deeply in the film. The missing content is way too disturbing, and probably was scrapped to avoid an inevitable NC-17 rating(my opinion).However, judging by the massive failure of the film in the box- office, with a mediocre 3 million dollars grossed(compared to the 13 millions spent in the production) , a more complete and possibly NC-17 film would turn this film in a actually good one. A missed opportunity, perhaps. The cinematography of this film is stylized, it don't follows the norm of use 'natural lightning' to make a film whose set in the 'old times'. It's an interesting choice, but natural light is more charming than the stylized one in this film. Although neither really reflects the dark atmosphere of this film.So yeah. It is watchable, unless if you don't have stomach to handle the really disturbing violence . 5.4/105.4/10

The Killer Inside Me, a brutally violent neo-noir from British director Michael Winterbottom, raised hell at Sundance, sending audiences into frenzies of disbelief and light-headedness. Of course, as usual with premature festival outrage, the film is really not as appalling as the uproar would have led you to believe. There is one truly sickening scene - as gut-wrenching as any burst of violence I've seen on screen - but, the real tragedy is that this insistence on portraying it so graphically actually takes the focus away from what is a very stylish, if tonally uneven, pulp thriller. Although Winterbottom has juggled genres and styles with relative ease in his previous work, mainly to positive results, perhaps his inexperience with tackling a project so deeply rooted in Americana leads to the film's downfall.Small-town deputy sheriff Lou Ford (Casey Affleck) is sent to warn off prostitute Joyce (Jessica Alba), who is having a dangerous affair with the son of construction tycoon Chester Conway (Ned Beatty). After realising they have the same violent sexual tastes, they begin a love affair and devise a plan to extort $10,000 from Conway, as Lou believes Conway to be responsible for the death of his brother. Unbeknownst to Joyce, Lou, despite his pleasant demeanour, is a violent sociopath, and after Lou beats Joyce to death with his bare hands and runs with the money, county attorney Howard Hendricks (Simon Baker) is called in to investigate. So Lou is forced to cover his tracks while he dotes on his fiancée Amy (Kate Hudson).Pulp writer Jim Thompson was possibly the grimmest writer of his ilk, and The Killer Inside Me is widely thought of as his best work. I have not read the novel, so I am unaware as to how Lou Ford is written, but here he is a blank but undeniably fascinating character. He is a character that always seems in control, even when he seems surprised at just what he is capable of. Yet for someone seemingly so clinical at killing, he's not very good at it. His extortion plan is full of holes that could lead back to him, and it doesn't take long for Hendricks to figure him out. Often a glance or a word will make you wonder if he even understands himself or anything he is doing. Casey Affleck is a fine actor, and his Lou Ford is intimidating. Even though he's slightly built and his voice is a high-pitched drawl, he is a scary character to spend 90 minutes with, and he even surpasses his performance in The Assassination of Jessie James By the Coward Robert Ford (2007), of which I felt he was robbed of an Oscar.Winterbottom wisely steers away from any psychological analysing of Ford, only hinting at childhood abuse (but not the way you would think), and glimpses of his intellect. Instead it makes you ponder this hideous character, and stay with him (but not necessarily root for) throughout the duration of the film. But it's Winterbottom's approach that is the problem here, blending a mixture of styles that causes the film to seem contrasting and haphazard. There are moments of pure noir - headlights approaching in the dust, characters sat in empty diners, cynical narration - and these scenes are at ease with the sleaze of the film's focus, but often it will kick in with some banjos at inappropriate moments that caused me to wonder whether I should be taking the film seriously. When it does take itself seriously, it's often inspired, but the final scene is so badly handled that I did wonder if a different director with more experience in the field would have made a much better film.www.the-wrath-of-blog.blogspot.com

THE KILLER INSIDE ME is the attempt to portray the mind of a violence-prone psychopath in the trappings of a modern-day film noir, a la THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE or BODY HEAT. As a film it's a bit of a failure, purely because it lacks a single sympathetic character. Casey Affleck's lead is arresting, for sure, but he's hateful with it and just not very interesting when he's not involved in the film's more controversial moments.Be warned: the film possesses one or two moments of extreme violence which are fairly sickening in their extremity. I don't mind extreme cinema, but you get the feeling that it's included here purely because the rest of the movie is so dull. It's overlong, for a start, and once the opening murder plot has been disposed with, the movie seems to just move slowly along while it searches for plot points and decent incident.Far too much is made of the dull Affleck character, the women (Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson) are there to be victims alone, and the seasoned support (Elias Koteas, Ned Beatty, Bill Pullman and Simon Baker) feel wasted.It all climaxes in one crushing letdown of an ending, an over-the-top piece of (unbelievable) spectacle that feels out of place given the careful realism that's come before. Tonally, director Michael Winterbottom delivers a movie that's all over the place at times, and you feel that he was well out of his comfort zone and not quite sure how to handle the material. It's obvious that the people who made THE KILLER INSIDE ME thought it was a great movie with that finesse of quality to it, but the sad truth is that it's fairly ordinary after all.