daggersineyes I could barely make it through the whole thing. THe problem is there's no suspense or mystery. It's just one killing after another and to me that's not remotely interesting. I guess if you just like watching true crime - without the investigative element or police procedures or anything else - maybe you'll like it. Not very interesting camera work, lousy production values, mostly badly acted (the lead dude is OK tho) and terrible script. I really can't find anything much to like about it. I was so bored by the end of it I finished scrubbing down my walls ready for painting while it was on. Still - like I said - maybe if you just like watching serial killers killing people you'll like it so I gave it a 3 coz it does what you expect, tho nothing more than that.

strizbiz OK, I don't want to say this movie had a "great " plot because the actual events were horrible and tragic. But the source material and all the information surrounding it was enough to give to writer and director what they needed to make this a chilling , horror classic. Though I was actually a little young at the time of these events , seeing the story on an episode of "very bad men " on ID channel made me want to take a closer look at this story. Anyway to be honest, this felt so much like a b movie, the acting, directing, the editing, even the music , that even though I sat through it, I didn't feel the performances where believable. I see some of the reviewers here are commending Scott Anthony Leet for his acting but I just didn't get it. It was a little over the top at times but forgettable. I don't believe you need a big Hollywood budget to make this movie great because it doesn't require a bunch go cgi effect or anything. It needs a great director. And a major part of what really happened was left out. I just felt like this was a missed opportunity. This movie just wasn't as dark as it needed to be in light of the tragedy of the real life events. The over all tone was just amateurish.

elshikh4 After (The Silence of the Lambs – 1991) a fashion had swept Hollywood in the 1990s and beyond, as if a subgenre had been born in the thriller / horror movies. It's all about the hunt for one crazy ultra-intelligent serial killer, by – in general – 2 different, yet complete together, partners. Else that, the rest of the serial killers, largely the realistic ones, went to be TV movies of the week. While (Freeway Killer) isn't any of the above (having no TSOTL's formula, being based on horrible true story, and cinematic), it leaned to take the worst of both; the poorness of writing, producing, and directing.The writing has no business exploring anything, I think the scriptwriter doesn't know the word "history" or admit it. I didn't understand how come the movie turns into narration near the end, or the necessity of the character of the victim's mother there. Rather how the police caught the title character ? Obviously, the scriptwriter doesn't know the word "thrill" either !The back projections, as in the car scenes, were ancient and funny, which pushed me out of the movie's 70s mood to the laughing mood! The sets did serve as a factor of bore. Not because they were numbered or so usual only, but for the way this movie dealt with them in the first place. The directing is close to awful. It led everything blandly. Remember the scenes at the friend's home; nothing interesting or catchy of any sort was done there. In fact, the whole movie says nothing artistically !Save a melancholic atmosphere and tone, clothes from the events' era, and some good acting, I didn't find something to earn from it. Speaking about good acting; it was good in the tight limits of that script. So Scott Leet, with his scary charismatic presence, was about to be Razzied. Thank god that the other elements didn't harm him much. In best cases it looks like a nihilist and bloody road movie, a glum slasher horror, or a movie about troubled friendship between 3 troubled men, however clueless when it comes to the reasons of their troubles and violence (Bore ? Suppressed anger ? Hate to society ? Inferiority complex ? Persecution mania ??!).Anyway, not the movie that I expected or accepted about William Bonin, whether psychologically or thrillingly. It does have the worst of the famous 2 formulas that I mentioned earlier, and doesn't have something good from or out of them either. It's only a dark tale of a real serial killer, where being poor is the secret of its insipidity.

Reaper-of-Souls While not the best film of its kind, Freeway Killer is better than most serial killer films. Despite being a fairly violent movie, some of the more disturbing things were left out. William Bonin was much more violent in real life. The torturing and raping was completely ignored. I think this part of Bonin's rampage could have added a new, darker and more disturbing feel to the film. Not that it's not already a disturbing film, but Bonin's character (played by Scott Leet) could have been developed to show the true monster he really was. Not all Bonin's victims willingly got in his van, some of them were forced, something the film never shows either. In spite of what I consider "character flaws," Freeway Killer is an above average film based on real life serial killer William Bonin and a couple of his male accomplices. It kept me entertained enough to watch all the way through, which is better than I can say most movies do nowadays. 6*'s out of 10.