Aileen Wuornos: American Boogeywoman

For anyone even vaguely interested in the real story - or even interested in real writing and acting - do yourself a favour and watch Monster (2003).

In the 2003 movie, the producers/writers/director went to great lengths to make sure the movie was guided by real facts, and picked a cast capable of delivering performances so strong that at times it seemed more like a documentary.

American Boogeywoman by contrast delivers little more than you'd expect to find in gossip magazines, with production/writing/acting more at home in "Days of Our Lives" than in a movie.

Seriously, give this one a miss.

Just before her execution, Aileen Wuornos told Nick Broomfield, the British film maker who documented her life with hundreds of hours of tape and believed she was so mentally ill that the State of Florida was killing a child that, ºThey will all make money on me when I'm gone."

This film is proof. It's a disgusting exploitation of the life of a woman who suffered through a childhood that would make Dickens weep. It does nothing to elevate the lives of the men she killed nor does it show the way Wuornos herself was failed by child welfare services and her defense attorney.

Too soon, folks. Too soon. The earnest young actress tries to save it. But too soon.

Skip it. Watch "Monster," or Brookfield's outstanding "Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer,"

Absolutely great acting at the beginning by penny wise's sister and then it all went downhill from there. Its like a really really bad poison ivy and for anyone who hasn't seen poison ivy it's not good yet it's Oscar material compared to this.

I wouldn't waste your time watching this. At the end of the movie I questioned why Netflix would stream this one. It is hard to have any compassion for a murderess who shot 7 men in cold blood. Peyton List does her best portraying her but it just falls short. The other actors in this are just so-so. Skip this one and watch something else,

This is one of the worst movies I've seen in a long time! Would have been mad if I'd paid for it. Seriously bad overacting with an equally bad script. Tobin Bell was good as the Commodore. This movie does portray Wuornos as a smart and witty woman who had incredibly crappy social skills combined with a hair trigger temper, and then it digresses into a bizarre combination of soap opera and a bad noir movie.

This cannot be near the truth, but "based on", so watch it that way. When you want bubble gum for the brain or need background noise - this is the movie for you!