Freeway Killer (2009/Image Entertainment Blu-ray)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: C Film: C
In a
continued attempt to do a serial killer movie in yet another way, John Murlowski’s Freeway
Killer (2009) may not be a torture porn fest or as violent as too many of
the dumber films in the cycle had been and still are, but it cannot escape the
endless sense of repeating the few good films ever made on the subject. This one is about real life killer William Bonin
(Scott Anthony Leet), but that does not make it more realistic or offer
anything wee have not seen before.
Leet
tries to make the performance convincing, but in the end, he repeats the
endless clichés that this cycle has produced and David Birke (who has written
about such killers for pervious projects) cannot find his way out of the
repetition trap either. Too bad, because
there might be something new to say, but no one has found it since David
Fincher did Zodiac. As an internal reference to Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer,
Michael Rooker plays a detective. Too
bad the whole thing does not play well much.
The 1080p
1.78 X 1 digital High Definition image was shot on High Definition video and has
all kinds of motion blur and Murlowski shot this himself in what was a bad
idea. It is too much for him to juggle
and it shows. The DTS-HD MA (Master
Audio) lossless 5.1 mix is also limited by its budget, some recording issues
and a lack of soundstage. Extras include
a Making Of featurette and feature-length audio commentary by Murlowski and Birke.
- Nicholas Sheffo
