Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Sorry, this movie sucks

Pretty Good

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

First off, Michael Reilly Burke really pulls off a fine performance as the sick and twisted iconic American serial killer Theodore R. Bundy. Next, Matthew Bright goes for a colorful retro-seventies look and focuses mostly on the sheer brutality of his killings, leaving the background story of Bundy's youth in the shadows. This is the director's choice, giving way to a startling point of view: we ride along for his tour of death throughout America and that is pretty much it. Well, in the end we get to see him getting his comeuppance as well...In another way, this feels like a cautionary tale, especially considering the kids at the end saying 'I am Ted Bundy' (one of them holding a dead cat up to the camera). It is normal for children to be experimental and on the prowl for adventure, which often leads to misbehavior, but most of the time it does not escalate as it did with Bundy. He became thé American icon for evil, and still... he was a human being - and received about 200 love letters in jail!Bundy's 'accomplishments' are mind-boggling - it doesn't matter how ugly you want to portray them (I think one must). Even if you attribute some of it to luck, there is still a big part of his 'work' that leans heavily on sheer dedication, wit and persistence, there's no way around it.Unfortunately quite a few facts weren't correct (I must admit I don't know them all myself, and many facts are uncertain due to different statements by Bundy himself) and I would have liked the story to have started much earlier in Bundy's life ánd be more elaborate around the time it does begin, but 'Ted Bundy' does offer a visceral view of an almost unbelievable one-man rampage, leaving you with a few things to think about...8 out of 10.

This film looks OK, its entertaining enough, its never boring. It does however come off as a sort of comedy serial killer film. When girls are getting killed to funky disco music and you have cheesy kids saying corny lines like ' gee whizz, stay with us so we can be like a proper family' ' sorry munchkin' etc you really can't take it seriously. There is none of the gravity you would expect from a true story. Its more like a ted bundy's greatest hits compilation. The film basically jumps from one killing to the next and when the killings stop the film ends. It doesn't really want to get bogged down with real drama but it managed to squeeze in a 5 second 'i am spartacus scene' just to give it a semblance of being anything other than a slasher movie, unfortunately for the majority of the film I was reminded of the benny hill routine..the one where he's running after scantily clad women in fast forward. Like I said its entertaining none the less, just feels like something's been lost.

It'd be interesting to watch Matthew Bright's Ted Bundy along with "The Deliberate Stranger" starring Mark Harmon. Bright's film, of course, explores the dark, ugly side that TDS just couldn't because of national television. That means, more often than not, we see Ted Bundy in Bright's film almost always creepy and psychopathic. I think that's where Harmon scored and Michael Reilly Burke couldn't..we see Bundy in ways many others did, while Burke's Ted is always stalking and destroying. It's not exactly a pleasant film, by any imagination, but neither was Bundy's "extra curricular activities." We see the psycho-sexual stuff, his "pick-up" methods, and how he bludgeoned girls up side the noggins. Bright, maybe to the dismay of those who crave such explicit stuff, sometimes pulls back, not really elaborating in detail all of Bundy's sick, warped treatment of those he raped and murdered..I actually prefer this, because we're dealing with a real-life murderer, not an altogether fictitious one. It's hard to watch such a film as this as something entertaining, or to enjoy..it's a way for Bright to explore the darker side of man, using a subject we are familiar with. Burke is quite impressive in his scenes when he portrays Ted as a cold-blooded, and fiendish, maniac, who gets visceral thrills sexually molesting dead women, or assaulting future victims. Sometimes, Bright employs the "less is more" approach, subtly implying what is transpiring(..such as the awful, awful attack on a girl, using little more than scattered clothes in a pasture leading to an abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere). It's inevitable that you'll have your anal retentive "historians" trying to detect flaws in the time line, little anachronisms that may not coincide with the period for which Bundy's exploits occurred. I was more interested in how Bright and Burke would portray the man, how far they'd be willing to go. I think they cover enough ground, and we see him in action. I love the scene, though, where Tiffany Shepis, as a potential victim, finds her way free from Bundy, quite a resilient young woman who wasn't about to be taken prisoner without a fight. Tom Savini has a cameo as a detective questioning Bundy. Lee(Boti Bliss), Bundy's frequent lover and possible future wife, and her unusual relationship with Ted is dealt on in depth;this is where we see Bundy slowly morphing sexually into the perverse beast he'd soon become. I think Bright was wise to shoot a lot of the movie when Bundy is on the road or around places where you can not easily detect errors in the period covered. Probably the hardest moments to watch are when he bashes girls over the head(..although, Bright often only shows Bundy swinging hard upon the victims who are off screen, which perhaps is also a more effective method instead of gratuitously exploiting the damage in detail).

Matthew Bright's "Ted Bundy" gives us what might contain the best portrayal of a modern serial murderer on film. In the title role, Michael Burke is so revolting and psychopathic, he shows us what the slain and surviving women who met up with Bundy must have seen. His nonstop criminal was a compulsive thief and peeping tom before attempting to take a life for the first time. Ted follows a college gal home from a discotheque and, after he spies on her and masturbates in public while doing so, eventually in a subsequent scene, he steps up to the next level and beats a woman near death (that poor lady apparently survived her ordeal).Once he has crossed that line, all hell breaks loose and any female who comes into his gaze could be a potential crime statistic. His relationship with Boti Bliss is a sick imitation of a loving man who positions himself in society as an upstanding figure and actually is a lethal destruction machine capable of taking lives until stopped by police or a bullet. Or both.Ted later takes his homicidal self on the road and terrorizes several states in the Northwestern US (contrary to the urban legend concerning Debbie Harry, there's no evidence Ted ever went to New York). He manages to con person after person and the crime he eventually was sentenced to die for in Florida shouldn't have been logistically possible. He is the ultimate opportunist and his ability to resume his violence in the last third of the film when that should have been the end of his freedom will disgust any viewer in their right mind. Too many filmmakers try to explain the motives for their subjects' acts. Bright and Burke simply present Ted as he was, a disturbed little boy who never "grew up", but enlarged into an adult offender with twisted fantasies of torture, rape and necrophilia that he brought into a world not ready to deal with these pathologies. He blamed the alcohol and pornography he consumed for his acts, of course, because the extreme audacity any felon like this would need to live with their lack of a conscience never admits that they are at fault.